7 conversations, every one with a full transcript.
Paragliding Atlas has 7 conversations tagged acro, 7 of them with a complete transcript you can read and search on the page. Guests include Luke De Weert, Erlend Ukvitne, Gabriel Orsini and Raúl Rodríguez. The subject runs alongside safety, risk management, training.
An acro world champion talks through what it took to reach the top after breaking his spine, from the physical and mental training behind the tricks to the visualisation work that built his
Erlend Ukvitne talks through the route from wanting a place at the X-Alps to actually earning one, and the mindset behind his attempt at a world record. Much of it is practical advice for pi
Gabriel Orsini, who flies under the name partytillimpact, talks about safety, gear rigs and how transparent manufacturers really are about their equipment. The thread running through it is h
Raul Rodriguez invented many of the manoeuvres that acro is built on, and the conversation covers how a pilot should come into the discipline, starting with SIV on an ordinary wing to learn
Subir Sidhu rose through the sport quickly, and the conversation is about how to do that without outrunning your own margin, pushing where he wanted to and holding back where he had to. He d
Philipp Zellner has spent more than a decade flying at altitude in the Himalayas, and this first Risk vs Reward episode is about how he weighs that against the consequences. He tells the sto
Veselin Ovcharov of Fly The Earth talks through the second version of his acro harness, and why he thinks the sport has been flying rucksacks for decades while the technology drifted elsewhe