#Paragliding
42 conversations, 41 with a full transcript.
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Paragliding Atlas has 42 conversations tagged paragliding, 41 of them with a complete transcript you can read and search on the page. Guests include Bill Belcourt, Tilen Ceglar & Stan Radzikowski, Julien Garcia and Damien Lacaze. The subject runs alongside safety, competition, adventure.
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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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The Dark Side
What is #CIVLRESIGN with Julien Garcia
Julien Garcia explains what the CIVLRESIGN movement is actually asking for, which he frames as an institution acknowledging a systemic failure rather than any attack on individuals.
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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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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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New Technologies
Understanding Skymate: Paragliding Worlds First AI Driven Smart Harness System with Roman Barthelemy
Supair's lead harness designer explains Skymate, a harness that reads around a hundred data points every second and uses machine learning to tell an autorotation apart from ordinary flight.
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Resources, Tools and Tips
Science Backed Pre Flight Rituals to Unlock Laser Sharp Paragliding Clarity: On Demand
Want to elevate your paragliding game ? In this episode, I talk about:
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Risk vs Reward
Consequence Over Probability: Will Gadd on Why True Safety Lies in Clarity
Will Gadd argues that the people who show up determined to overcome their fear are the ones who do not last, and that the useful move is to accept the fear and build real capacity behind it.
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Weather Patterns
Meteorology 101: A beginner’s Guide to Understanding Weather Apps and Decoding Endless Forecasting Options
Ivelin Kalushkov of Sky Nomad in central Bulgaria walks through how he actually reads weather apps, and how to cut through the number of forecasting options a pilot is faced with.
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World Cups
Shane Tighe’s Road to X-Alps : Engineering Conquests In The Sky from Australia’s Flatlands to the Pinnacle of Hike and Fly
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.
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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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Living the Dream
Sandrine Roy : Vol Biv & Freedom Unfiltered : A Human-Powered Odyssey By Paragliding, Biking & Sailing Around The Globe
Sandrine Roy is circumnavigating the globe without using a plane or a car, stitching the journey together by paraglider, bicycle and sailing boat.
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Flight Mechanics
Alain Zoller: The Science of EN Certifications : How Work Group 6 Shaped Paragliding Testing, Innovation & Safety
Alain Zoller of Air Turquoise explains who actually decides that a wing is safe to fly, walking through the CEN technical committees and the Work Group 6 that writes paragliding's test standards.
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Resources, Tools and Tips
Ziad Bassil : Finest Paragliding Reviews & Superpower of Changing Wings as A Human
Ziad Bassil test flies more wings than almost anyone in the sport and writes most of them up, working from the thought that birds cannot swap wings but humans can.
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Storytellers
Eddie Colfox : Storytime : Chasing Adventure With the Real OG John Silvester & 3 Decades of Making Memories Across The Globe
Eddie Colfox was one of the early explorers of vol biv flying, and this is three decades of stories from expeditions alongside John Silvester.
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Resources, Tools and Tips
Ashutosh Chopra: Identifying Passion Vs Obsession: An Aviator’s Approach to Overcoming Adversity, Rebuilding Trust and Finding Joy in the Skies
Ashutosh Chopra, an aviator by profession, works through where passion stops and obsession starts in a sport with no biological retirement age to tell anyone when to stop.
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Risk vs Reward
Kinga Masztalerz: Building a Healthy Relationship with the Skies: How to Master Fear, Build Resilience & Find Joy Through Paragliding
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.
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Flight Mechanics
Helmut Schrempf : Modernizing SIV Courses: How This New Training Method Can Help You Master Glider Control and Improve Paragliding Safety
Helmut Schrempf sets out a modernised way of running SIV courses, built around teaching deliberate control of the wing rather than working through a fixed list of manoeuvres.
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Resources, Tools and Tips
Flying & Filming 3 : Andreas Lattner (hochzwei.media)
Andreas Lattner of hochzwei.media describes leaving a salaried job to build a living out of flying and filming, in one of the most expensive economies in the world.
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Resources, Tools and Tips
Flying & Filming 2 : Benjamin Kellet
Benjamin Kellet is one of the most followed paraglider pilots on Instagram, and this is a straight look at how he makes short form films that actually travel.
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Know Your Equipment
Helmet Safety : Christian Ciech : ICARO 2000
Christian Ciech of ICARO 2000 explains what actually goes into a flying helmet, from design and materials through to how certification works in practice.
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Brand Stories
Brand Stories : Neo : Eric Roussel
Eric Roussel explains why Neo designs and manufactures in France rather than Asia, from the cost arithmetic that forces them into higher quality and more innovation, to the reason the brand is named…
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Resources, Tools and Tips
Flying & Filming 1 : Benjamin Jordan
The second half of the conversation with Benjamin Jordan turns to storytelling, and how a narrative gets built around a flight rather than bolted onto it afterwards.
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Living the Dream
Living The Dream : Benjamin Jordan
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.
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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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Risk vs Reward
Risk Vs Reward 2 : Subir Sidhu
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.
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Risk vs Reward
Risk Vs Reward 1 : Philipp Zellner
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.
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New Technologies
New Technologies 4 : Veselin Ovcharov (Fly The Earth)
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 elsewhere.
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New Technologies
New Technologies 3 : Stephan Stiegler (AirDesign Paragliders)
In this episode of Paragliding Atlas, we have an exciting conversation with Stephan Stiegler, the innovative designer from AirDesign.
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New Technologies
New Technologies 2 : Guillem Batlle & Adrià Grau (Niviuk Paragliders)
Guillem Batlle, the aerospace engineer heading R&D at Niviuk, and mechanical engineer Adria Grau explain how a wing is actually developed and tested before it ever reaches a shop.
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New Technologies
New Technologies 1 : Beni Kälin (speedflyingschool.com)
Beni Kalin introduces the wing technology from Go Flare Global and how borrowing ideas from kiting lets a wing convert vertical energy in a way a conventional paraglider cannot.
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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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Resources, Tools and Tips
AMA #1
As we soar into 2024, I wanted to kick off the year with a special "Ask Me Anything" episode.
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Navigators
Navigating Australia : Godfrey Wenness
Godfrey Wenness talks through flying at Manilla in New South Wales, where violent dust devil style climbs build on super adiabatic days but the air is still less punishing than big alpine conditions.
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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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Sky Gods
Sky Gods : Flying 8000ers : Antoine Girard
Antoine Girard was told that flying at 8,000 metres was not possible, so in 2016 he went and did it, and now talks about 9,000 as a way of showing there is no ceiling at all.
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Navigators
Navigating India: Jigish Gohil (Bonus Ep)
Jigish Gohil gives the local view of Bir Billing, starting with the safety briefing he thinks every visiting pilot should read before they arrive, and the landing out stories that explain why he…
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Navigators
Navigating India: Eddie Colfox
Eddie Colfox decodes flying at Bir Billing and the routes north through the Himalayas, including the run to Manali, with a warning to be careful of the cloud and of assuming that the pilot ahead of…
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Navigators
Navigating Colombia: Pal Takats
In the show's very first episode, Pal Takats maps out flying in Colombia, from the sites of the Valle del Cauca and their airspace to what a European should expect from the pace of life on the…