Staying Alive in Paragliding

Recorded 11 April 2020. So the very first podcast that I recorded closes this series. Uncut and unedited. Even the staying alive intro song is played "manually" with a separate Bluetooth speaker. Rougher than rough, like in the olden days.... This whole podcast thing started as a request from a beginner called Nicolas on our local paragliding club whatsapp group, for some tips. Along with my friend's Uli Prinz, Gerhard Beukes, Deon, Kieran and a few others, I was encouraged to do the podcasts that I've recorded to date. In this podcast I underline most of the top important safety tips I consider imperative for starting alive in our beautiful sport. Enjoy it brothers and sisters in paragliding and remember to share it far and wide. It's all free and for the betterment of and security in our pastime. A new series will follow, but not right now... 50+ podcasts in 40 days.. Ill take a short break as I'm on a motorcycle trip, but do promise you more. Thanks for your support all of you! Feedback is always welcome.. Whatsapp me on 0027720458706

Recorded 15 May 2020 Jost is a Slovenian competition pilot that lives in Lasko and works for Naviter. We discuss lightweight equipment and "heavy" kits... What makes sense? Slovenia explained.. Sea, mountain, flying and skiing.. All within 1hours drive. The LOVE country. Lots of reasons to visit. Safe and great place. Flying in the Julian alps.. Kobarid, Tolmin and Lijak Naviter -Rasaam, Marco, Andre.. Great company.. See you cloud.. What is coming out next.. Development. Support.. Very important for us. Importance of good, reliable equipment in all sports. 1,2 our 3 sets of paragliding equipment? Jurij, Tillen, the Valic Brothers Trying and failing... Top tip... Keep trying... Applies to life! Competitions.. Prefect easy to learn Entry level comps.. Chabre open, Gin wide open, BGD Weightless introduces MRT scoring. Lectures at these comps. Ask competent people. Bombing out... Discussed. How pilots flying style shows your mentality. Personalities and lifestyles are reflected in flying techniques. The paragliding circus! Naviter.com Facebook.com/jost.napret

Recorded 15 May 2020 John and his wife Katja live in Bali. Hangliding and paragliding world champ, John flew 186 miles (300km) on a hangie in 1983!!! They speak of Bali, Pepe Lopez, how tourism has changed in Bali.. Constant summer. Hindu, welcoming, smart people. Commercial tandem flying there. "Trade" constant winds.. 150m high, 20km long. Big business kept for the Indonesians. Bus loads of Chinese clients. John retired gracefully from comp flying and now loves tandem and sharing it. Thermaling with eagles in Pyrenees. Bali Chronicles.. Showcasing talent on the island... Instagram page as a small business. Traditional Balinese healers. Hangliding early days.. 1974..16years old and buying a kit. The Rogallo wing. 2 years before any soaring at all! Wills wings sst.. Wales, Brighton, South France. Competition flying. Planters peanuts. 6 years sponsorship that paid for me to live from. Airwave on the Isle of Wight. Psychology. Funny and scary moment on worst glider ever! Robbie Whittall's madness ... Risk discussed. Top tip.. OBSERVATION! "If in doubt, don't take off! " "Corona.. Don't be paranoid" My FB John Pendry, IG John Pendry (I’m also the Ozone dealer for kites and paragliders in Bali), Katia FB Katia Cognault IG katia.cognault http://www.k-cognault-photographe.fr/ Our Villa in Bali FB & IG Villa Impian Canggu Bali FB Bali Chronicles IG #balichronicles

Recorded 14 May 2020 Rossenheim, Germany based Bernd Hohlmeier - Lufthansa pilot and fan of triangle cross country flights. Funny story on how he started flying in 2011, the state of Airlines today, tandem flying and the fun we have flying. Breaking triangle records in Colombia with Pepe Malecki, Kevin Phillips, Tobie and a few others.. Beautiful storytelling here about triangles that go from being 140km to 183km! No landings sometimes. Planning the limits. Describes triangles.. Tom Walder's 325km.. Biggest in northern alps, Luc Armant's 340km in France and Chrigel 350 in Switzerland. Discussion of the xcontest and German Liga.. How to win them.. What is needed. A great reason to fly triangles... "land right back at your car!" Very funny story of flying with a huge hangover and landing in the BIG 5 game reserve. Marcus - Xalps USA and landowners How litigation and complexities are making our sport more challenging in some places. Perfect South Africa and paragliding road trips there... Bliss! Why we ride.. Honda xr 650 '93, bike and fly South Africa.. Climbing. "Sometimes I even work" Flying USA west coast. Japan.. Brilliant flying and experiences. Turkey.. Cameli.. Best flying ever. China, Iran and other places discussed. Flying triangles in alps. Pin gauss the alpine main range. South tirol and Sillian. The Bavarian NE wind. My 218km triangle that should have been 260! Porterville.. Brilliant.. Triangles? Challenging... Here's how to do IT.. Very interesting discussion on Corona, the rich and the poor.. Germany vs SA Great xc tips.. U must want it..! U wanna go fast, that area you have never seen before... FORGET ABOUT RETRIEVE.. The time you will get back.. Forget about it!

Recorded 13 may 2020 Sammy has come to Cape Town many times as a tandem pilot and comes from Reykjavik and lives in Vik, Iceland. He has a tandem business, zipline adventure and accommodation (see links below). We chat about "unnormal" Iceland, how to travel cheaply there and to really get the most out of it. Wild camping discussed. Flying and vol biv adventures. Tons of tips and recommendations. "You can fly from any mountain!" Lunar landscape. Scenery described. The ring road. The biggest river in the world! Unbelievable story! Biggest glaciers in Europe.. With volcanoes.. "The southern coast of Iceland shouldn't even be inhabited" ! Iceland history, customs, cultural heritage. Hydrothermal, geothermal, green energy discussed. 20 to 25 days per month flying in summer.. Takeoff anywhere! The true belief of elves.. Roads built around rocks because of elves! A funny story. 1/10 Icelanders write a book.. "most of it is absolute garbage!" The northern lights and paragliding while this is on! "pink, green, purple.. Dancing around"! No. 1 visitor.. USA tourists. Super cheap after Corona.. Stay off the beaten track! The incredible Iceland pony! Lovely podcast with a humorous guy. www.trueadventure.is www.zipline.is

Recorded 8 May 2020 - Jimmy is father of 2, husband and ex world champ in paragliding. Beautiful insights from flying the dolomites to tandems with disabled passengers (that are cost free!). A very funny story.. His worst glider! His home.. The magnificent dolomites and how the do 300m climbs on tandems! Nova, edel, Gin... Andre bucher! 80s Gliders that can launch without running.. Wow! Flying Strategy.. Competition tips. Spearfishing competitions.. How they made me good at flying! SIV and throwing the reserve.. Tandem too. Top tips on throwing your reserve. "throw it down" "stall your paraglider" "get a bigger rescue (reserve) than you think you need". Seen 400 rescues thrown... Special reserve throwing courses. Big insights into this and different rescue types and sizes. Interesting comparisons. Col rodella and how crazy it is.. 300-400 pilots and daily collisions. Sheep mentality. Groups and "everyone must fly!" Terrible! Landing on the marmolata glacier.. Relaunch.. I don't promote this.. The chicken tour and the BIG chicken tour! The beautiful Dolomites.. A must in Sept Oct Nov.. Cheap and great! Tandem web site fassafly.com SIV courses web site corsisiv.com Facebook fassafly - facebook corsisiv.com Facebook Gin import DHF Italian Team Profile pic is Jimmy is at 3200m, Toplanded on the Marmolata

Recorded 1 May 2020 So positive and always smiling is Andreas Pepe Malecki. Husband and funny guy that is really really good at flying... World champ in 2011 and 12 and 3 x German champion. Deep philosophies on positivity, friendships, winning and having fun! Learn from everyone! Always look on the bright side of life. On motorcycle riding, tours and advanced training and much more.. Some very funny stories and simply a good all round podcast. Book him for a tour while u can! https://www.flyozone.com/paragliders/team/Andreas-Pepe-Maleki. https://www.pepemalecki.de/blog/ pepemalecki@gmail.com 😃👍🏻

Tzak, or Jack, speaks openly about landing in the lake in Voss in January! About how he evolved from rafting to paragliding to Speedriding, becoming a tandem pilot, Airdesign test pilot. The Rise 4.. Magic! Acro insights, warnings and knowhow. How he ended up in Garda in Italy, flying from Monte Baldo. We discuss Loen, flying and living in Norway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vERjRwXc74I&t=4s this is a link to a video from last summer in Garda paragliding from tzak

Recorded 2 May 2020. Jon, a johannesburg based entrepreneur and multi disciplined pilot speaks about the differences between these flying sports. A family man and pwc comp pilot opens up. He discusses a trauma and/or fear of landing in rough terrain. Headspace affairs about xc and comp flying. Risk aversion and beer drinking! Technical textbook flying.. Thermal bands.. "The mole".. For my low flying How we fly worse when we fly consciously. Cloudbusters.. BBQing chickens ON the train Fomo and flying Jon says... "If you want to learn to glide you need to join a club, you may have heard this involves some volunteerism - please do not be put off everyone helps each other keeps costs down and instruction is FREE" - different ethos to paragliding, but good see here https://sssa.org.za/

Recorded 30 April 2020 Petra, from the Czech mountains is an unbelievably talented pilot. Natural, cool, so approachable. Speaks of how she got into flying in 93, macpara nirvana. A dream wing! "First comp, first task is the first time I ever thermalled, I was the only only one thermaling... We had only heard about thermaling. I flew 15kms on the day and got hero status! A mother, wife and living such a simple life, but man, she can fly! Ski instructing.. Little kids.. Wow! Taking a 1 year break to have a child. How I won a task at the world's in 2019 on a D glider.. On a luscious leopard! Why u should fly a class LOWER than u normally do! Be able to use all the gliders performance.. How to fly an easy 100km on your A glider. Fly a safer wing!! The audi TT, Ski instructing with kids Race and beat the men... ffs! Should comp flying be separated..by sexes The horrible Pegas Tango wing! Advise for upcoming pilots Good handling and feeling and security is more important than performance https://m.facebook.com/petra.slivova.1

Brilliant podcast..650km...700 Neville.? Testing. Top competition & xc paragliding tips. Young Honorin from the ozone development team and top top pilot is simply a genius! Brilliant podcast..650km...700 Neville.? Young Honorin from the ozone development team and top top pilot is simply a genius!..650km...700 Neville.? Deep views of Testing equipment, throwing reserves, nearly falling into his glider.. Keeping secrets from his father. No risks after lockdown Landing in a tree without seeing it on the world record tandem flight. Easy 500km on tandem..! Top tip on finding a thermal close over the ground.. "in 20m above the ground Believe in it... " (in a cool French accent). "In xc... Don't think about retrieve... Don't worry where u gonna land... Go!" Recorded Saturday 18 April. https://www.flyozone.com/paragliders/team/honorin-hamard Find him and make contact with this super star on his fb page https://www.facebook.com/honoflywithme/

Professor at Zurich University, Dr Tony Patt is a paraglider pilot and expert in renewable energies.. He clears up important questions on this theme. Oil breeds corruption. What will our future toys look like? Electric paramotor? Educating young ladies is imperative. Must watch films.. Human 2015 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3327994 Home 2009 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1014762 Efoils: found this video best explains this concept.. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Flist%3DLLsvzwl32z_qaJDCzO-dELhQ%26v%3DKVKPY9i-e44%26index%3D1301&ved=2ahUKEwiXp8yPlJXpAhWtXRUIHRcqB7QQwqsBMAJ6BAgFEA4&usg=AOvVaw3e8M_gN-k-Fu386ahpWFBH&cshid=1588422815161

Luis Mad Mickey Mouse Fonseca - Norway, facts, travel,fun flying, tips From landing in a bee farms and enemy territory to a Hilarious opening story, Luis entertains us from one of the greatest countries I've ever visited. 4960 recognized flying sites (besides the hike and fly sites), easy travelling and spectacular scenery make Norway one of the world's top paragliding destinations of you all me. Look into this country and laugh with a mad legend of the sport! RESOURCE: I traveled.. Munich, hirtshals, Ferry to Kristjansand, Stavanger, bergen, Voss,, Gudvangen, then left and right upto alesund and then left and right to Oslo, Malmo, Copenhagen and back to Munich The norwegian flying community are big customers of the Holfuy weather-stations: https://holfuy.com/en/map/wind&la=64.63313&lo=15.42494&z=4.0 Our club is by the way Stratus Paragliderklubb (only Norwegian...) https://vimeo.com/user14487761 About flying sites in Norway: (scroll down to Norway) https://www.flightlog.org/fl.html?l=1&a=2 My youtube-channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MadMickeyMouse My club-mate Oddvars vimeo-channel with many videos of our club-sites. https://vimeo.com/user14487761 Kick the Bush https://we.tl/t-7lGQy9Kvc4