13 conversations, every one with a full transcript.
Paragliding Atlas has 13 conversations tagged risk management, 13 of them with a complete transcript you can read and search on the page. Guests include Tilen Ceglar & Stan Radzikowski, Pal Takats, Damien Lacaze and Will Gadd. The subject runs alongside paragliding, safety, competition.
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,
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.
Eddie Colfox was one of the early explorers of vol biv flying, and this is three decades of stories from expeditions alongside John Silvester. The films that came out of those trips, among t
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. The conversation is about
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. It covers the craft behind them
Gabriel Orsini, who flies under the name partytillimpact, talks about safety, gear rigs and how transparent manufacturers really are about their equipment. The thread running through it is h
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
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. He d
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. He tells the sto
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