#Open Class
3 conversations, every one with a full transcript.
- Conversations
- 3
- Listening
- 4h 08m
- Chapters
- 30
- Series
- 3
Paragliding Atlas has 3 conversations tagged open class, 3 of them with a complete transcript you can read and search on the page. Guests include Russell Ogden, Bill Belcourt and Luc Armant. The subject runs alongside ozone, training, competition.
-
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…
-
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.
-
Flight Mechanics
Luc Armant talks about Debunking the Myths and Upgrading Enzo 3
Luc Armant explains how competition rules and the scoring system shape what designers build, and warns that forcing racing into a lower class would simply produce competition wings inside that class…