14 conversations, every one with a full transcript.
Paragliding Atlas has 14 conversations tagged training, 14 of them with a complete transcript you can read and search on the page. Guests include Beni Kalin & Heli Schrempf, Russell Ogden, Shams & Ouka and Luke De Weert. The subject runs alongside paragliding, competition, safety.
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
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 alre
Shams flies with his dog Ouka, and this is the practical version of how that works: the training, the equipment, and how to judge whether the dog actually wants to be there. He took the idea
An acro world champion talks through what it took to reach the top after breaking his spine, from the physical and mental training behind the tricks to the visualisation work that built his
There is much more to reserve parachutes than just getting them repacked periodically and in a correct way! This talk is a snippet from one of our most replayed moments from an episode where
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. His wider point is that the
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,
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 u
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?
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. His case is tha
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
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
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