12 conversations, every one with a full transcript.
Paragliding Atlas has 12 conversations tagged mental game, 12 of them with a complete transcript you can read and search on the page. Guests include Robert (Robbie) Whittall, Beni Kalin & Heli Schrempf, Yvonne Dathe and Damien Lacaze. The subject runs alongside paragliding, training, x-alps.
Robbie Whittall, co-founder and test pilot at Ozone, talks less about flying than about what surrounds it: the line between dedication and obsession, why achievement never brought contentmen
Beni Kalin and Heli Schrempf discuss why so many pilots end up on an unsustainable progression, skipping steps into intermediate syndrome without realising it, and often reflecting only afte
Yvonne Dathe is a sports psychologist who works with pilots on stressful moments in the air and on holding focus when it matters. She deliberately prefers mental flexibility to mental streng
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,
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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
An attempt at learning the Neuroscience of crises management! Why? Because my cloud storage crashed, recordings vanished! Remember feeling that stomach dropping panic while flying sometimes?
A conversation about flow state and what pulls a pilot out of it, in particular the voices that arrive once you start flying to impress the people watching rather than for reasons of your ow
Shane Tighe went from engineering in the Australian flatlands to a place on the X-Alps start line, a 1,200 kilometre race across the Alps on legs and wings alone. He talks about the fifteen
Kinga Masztalerz points out that everyone calls paragliding a mental game, yet very few pilots train the mind the way they train ground handling or thermalling. She makes the case for being
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
Benjamin Jordan, a pilot and adventure filmmaker, talks about how he visualises a project and then actually gets it made, and what happens when things go against him partway through. This is