#Competition
28 conversations, 20 with a full transcript.
- Conversations
- 28
- Listening
- 26h 02m
- Chapters
- 212
- Series
- 10
Know Your EquipmentTechnical Masterclass by Brett Janaway | Science of Paraglider Trimming,Performance & New Legalities
Risk vs RewardThe Russell Ogden Interview: Decoding Paragliding Mastery Protocols: Progression, Fear & Competition
World CupsScoring in Paragliding Competitions: A New Pilot's Guide to the GAP Formula & Strategy | Joerg EwaldParagliding 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.
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Know Your Equipment
Technical Masterclass by Brett Janaway | Science of Paraglider Trimming,Performance & New Legalities
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…
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Risk vs Reward
The Russell Ogden Interview: Decoding Paragliding Mastery Protocols: Progression, Fear & Competition
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 already…
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World Cups
Scoring in Paragliding Competitions: A New Pilot's Guide to the GAP Formula & Strategy | Joerg Ewald
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 formula.
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World Cups
The Inside Story of Sports Racing Series (SRS) by Brett Janaway
Brett Janaway tells how the idea for the Sports Racing Series came up around 2012, with a few organisers over a beer talking about linking their events into one series, and why he is careful that…
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The Dark Side
The Unfiltered Truth About Paragliding Governance: with Bill Hughes & Goran Dimiskovski
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 proxy…
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The Dark Side
Bill Belcourt: The Uncomfortable Truth No One is Talking about in the Current Safety Paradox
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.
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The Dark Side
Insights From The Gaggle with Tilen Ceglar & Stan Radzikowski
Tilen Ceglar and Stan Radzikowski give the view from inside the World Cup gaggle on the debate that had been running across the community.
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Brand Stories
Pal Takats on Challenges, Change & The Future of Paragliding
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 prepared…
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Living the Dream
Anatomy of a Dream with Damien Lacaze: A Lifestyle Full of Grit, Grace and Vertical Freedom
An episode uncovering alchemy of adventure.
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Brand Stories
Legacy and Lifetimes of Gin Seok Song: 5 Decades of Pioneering the Art of Free Flight
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 competition…
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Sky Gods
Maxime Pinot : The Journey Within : Mapping our Quest to Touch The Sky With Glory
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 us want to…
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Flight Mechanics
Aljaž Valič : 777 : Paragliding’s Slovenian Mavericks Redefining the EN B Class And Elevating Free Flight Performance
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 type and…
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Storytellers
Storytellers : Marko Milutinovic (Mid-Air Collision)
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 take…
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Risk vs Reward
Risk Vs Reward 4 : Raúl Rodríguez
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 what it…
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Risk vs Reward
Risk Vs Reward 3 : Manfred Ruhmer
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.
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World Cups
PWC Lifestyle: Klaudia Bulgakow
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 in…
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World Cups
PWCA: Goran Dimiskovski
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.
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Navigators
Pre PWC Kenya: Nikolay Yotov
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.
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Navigators
Navigating Panchgani (Pre PWC India) : Vistasp Kharas
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.
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Sky Gods
Sky Gods : Flying to Win : Honorin Hamard
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 the last…
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World Cups
Task 5 Highlights | 15th Paragliding World Cup Super Final Pegalajar 2026
Footage from Paragliding Atlas: Task 5 Highlights | 15th Paragliding World Cup Super Final Pegalajar 2026.
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World Cups
Task 4 Highlights | 15th Paragliding World Cup Super Final Pegalajar 2026
Footage from Paragliding Atlas: Task 4 Highlights | 15th Paragliding World Cup Super Final Pegalajar 2026.
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World Cups
Task 2 Highlights | 15th Paragliding World Cup Super Final Pegalajar 2026
Footage from Paragliding Atlas: Task 2 Highlights | 15th Paragliding World Cup Super Final Pegalajar 2026.
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World Cups
Task 1 Highlights | 15th Paragliding World Cup Super Final Pegalajar 2026
Footage from Paragliding Atlas: Task 1 Highlights | 15th Paragliding World Cup Super Final Pegalajar 2026.
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World Cups
SRS Piedrahita BGD Edition Task 2 Highlights
Footage from Paragliding Atlas: SRS Piedrahita BGD Edition Task 2 Highlights.
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World Cups
SRS Piedrahita BGD Edition Task 1 Highlights
Footage from Paragliding Atlas: SRS Piedrahita BGD Edition Task 1 Highlights.
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World Cups
SRS BGD Edition 2026 | Day 1: Registration, Pilots & Peñas de Piedrahíta🎉
Footage from Paragliding Atlas: SRS BGD Edition 2026 | Day 1: Registration, Pilots & Peñas de Piedrahíta🎉.
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World Cups
Highlights Day 1 - PWCA Superfinal 2026
Footage from Paragliding Atlas: Highlights Day 1 - PWCA Superfinal 2026.