28 conversations, every one with a full transcript.
Paragliding Atlas has 28 conversations tagged competition, 20 of them with a complete transcript you can read and search on the page. Guests include Brett Janaway, Russell Ogden, Joerg Ewald and Bill Hughes & Goran Dimiskovski. The subject runs alongside safety, paragliding, world cup.
Recorded on a non flying day at SRS Piedrahita, Brett Janaway explains why line trim has become a competition level concern, with three wings now checked daily at events like the European Ch
Russell Ogden argues that a free spread of information is what keeps the sport safe, and describes himself as a second generation pilot who came up through a UK training system that was alre
Joerg Ewald, who flew World Cups from 2004 until he retired from competition in 2025 and came to scoring through running his own small league, explains the history and the logic of the GAP f
Brett Janaway tells how the Sports Racing Series began around 2012 with a few organisers agreeing over a beer to link their events into one series, and why he is careful that what happens in
Bill Hughes and Goran Dimiskovski answer claims made elsewhere about how competition paragliding is governed, disputing the framing of a widely quoted remark and the accusations made over pr
Bill Belcourt's answer to reducing fatalities is training, ahead of everything else, and he is direct that some pilots are racing who are not ready to be racing. His wider point is that the
Tilen Ceglar and Stan Radzikowski give the view from inside the World Cup gaggle on the debate that had been running across the community. Their case is that competition flying has spent yea
Pal Takats says he is no longer willing to accept air that can collapse a wing no matter how good the pilot is, and argues that competition should reward the best pilot rather than the one p
An episode uncovering alchemy of adventure. I talk with Red Bull X-Alps athlete and vol biv pilot Damien Lacaze, as he opens up about his journey in paragliding, stories from the mountains,
In this episode I sit with the founder of Gin Gliders, to talk about his 5 decade free flight legacy, Starting with rogallo shaped hang gliders back in the day to pioneering Boomerang compet
On the side lines of recently concluded PWC Krusevo 2025 edition I got to sit down with Maxime in a tell all tale about how we all can approach the sport of paragliding in a way that makes u
Aljaz Valic, co-founder of the Slovenian brand 777, sets out the design thinking behind their EN B wings and why he believes development stalls once a class becomes effectively one single ty
Marko Milutinovic describes a competition where midairs, reserve deployments and serious injuries were happening daily, to the point that the jury wanted to stop for a day so everyone could
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
Manfred Ruhmer has flown fixed, flexible and collapsible wings across more than three decades, and this conversation is about what a career that long does to your relationship with risk. He
Klaudia Bulgakow describes what competition flying actually teaches, and why pilots who turn up expecting to learn from the back of the field come away frustrated when the real learning sits
Goran Dimiskovski, president of the Paragliding World Cup Association, describes what it takes to organise racing at that scale and what goes on behind the scenes of a World Cup. He speaks f
Nikolay Yotov of Skynomad takes the show to Africa for the first time, on flying in Kenya ahead of the pre World Cup held there. It covers what the sites are actually like and what it means
Vistasp Kharas walks through Panchgani ahead of the pre World Cup held there, covering what the site asks of a pilot and what to expect from competition flying in India. The episode also mar
Honorin Hamard, a French competition pilot with close to 8,000 hours by his early thirties and several world records behind him, explains how he approaches a race and why he keeps flying to
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