This is a mash-up of the flying this weekend. I am at 2:17 and 4:08. Most of the mounted video camera shots are of Mark Walton of http://www.zen-speedflyers.co.uk and you can see how good he is. Pay close attention and see if you can see the sheep he scared half to death! It was a great weekend. If you are located in the UK you must come by and fly with us. All are welcome whether you have flown before or not. There are no haters here. I drove 3 hours to fly with them!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCp7qW5143g

Also check out:

http://www.youtube.com/user/ZenSpeedflyers

Hi,

I am curious as to the best way to get into Speed Flying (ground launched)? I am interested but come from a none skydiving or paragliding background. Which would be the best of the 2 as a springboard into speed flying. Also i am based in the UK but will be in NZ in December this year. Any courses out there? Cheers

Part text from a UK news article - April 2009

Read Full text here:
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport
which is a very basic re-write of the Times article posted below...

Everything you need to know about... Speed riding - by Amol Rajan

What is it?
A terrifying, and largely unregulated, hybrid of paragliding and skiing, whose popularity is suddenly soaring

How does it work?
Each speed rider skis down a slope, before utilising a small wing to soar off the slope and into the air. The wing inflates as the speed rider accelerates, effectively converting it into a parachute steered by pulling on strings attached to each hand. The speed rider then hits the slope again at speed, continuing his journey to the finish line.

How dangerous is it?
Potentially lethal: some ski resorts have already banned the practice, following a spate of deaths. Only experienced skiers should really be speed riding, and beginners are required to start out on wide slopes with soft snow and limited rock on their faces. Advanced speed riders descend up to 5,000ft, hitting 40 mph, so the potential for fatal crashes is huge.

16m Ozone XT - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujgGQ2nemfk

15m Gin Bobcat - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0KnYo9cJ0c

15m Bio-Air Skim - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSOEZZZIXZk

If you know of other speed gliders good for motorised flight post a few details or video link <img src="http://forum.speed-flying.com/my-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_cool.gif" title="8)" class="bb_smilies" />

Hello has anyone any experience ground launching this canopy , i have towed it with a car , but ne groud launched it , now Iam using a gin speedfly wing and inflates really easy for take off , the thing is I would prefer using the xaos , because i like more how it flyes . thanks

I will be running a First Jump Base Course at the Perrine Bridge over Labor Day weekend,and other courses by appointment only.(If I have students)Interested people must have a minimum of 100 skydives or a P-3 rating.If you have a combination of less skydives and a P-2 we can discuss your experience in both disciplines.If interested you can contact me at the email address below,and from there we can exchange #s.I am well known in the sport,and have been jumping for nearly 10 years and have well over 1000 basejumps.I have dealerships with 2 of the 3 major Base gear Manufacturers(Apex Base & Morpheus Technologies-which includes Atair Canopies & Phoenix Fly Suits).Both know me and can verify that I am who I say I am.You must have base specific gear to go through my course.If you need gear I can order for you(discounted pricing),and possibly find you used gear.I can also possibly provide rental gear at an extra price.Pricing for the course is on my website(preliminary site).Along with the course curriculum.

Cya,MIke
freakboy066@hotmail.com
http://freakboy066.tripod.com/

July/August 2010 issue of Australian Geographic Outdoor magazine has an article on Australian SpeedFlying

http://www.australiangeographic.com.au

The new extreme

A burgeoning group of adventurers are spreading their wings as they take on the daring new sport of speedflying.

Not sure why Christian23's post didn't display on the forum so I have copied and reposted the original message.

I've seen many videos of the sport online and I NEED to get involved. This fall I will be a student in ski crazy Burlington, Vermont. So my question is, how do i get into the sport, where do I start? Any information would be greatly appreciated! <img src="http://forum.speed-flying.com/my-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif" title=":-)" class="bb_smilies" />

Submitted by Hamish on December 23, 2007 - 1:56am.

Thinking about a 3-4 week speed riding holiday in France in Februrary or March. I will be traveling alone or maybe with my wife. Will be traveling from New Zealand and would like to do as many days as possible so any advise or suggestions would be appreciated from locals or anybody that has done a similar holiday.

I have been speed riding for 2 seasons in NZ and done 30-35 days and am hanging out for some long runs with good terrain. I have never been to France and would like to get 20-25 days riding in weather permitting. 2 or 3 different resorts and was thinking Tignes and Chamonix. Are these the best resorts? Have been doing a bit of research on the net but some info is hard to obtain so ive got a few questions. Here goes:

I have a paragliding license but is there any thing I must have to speed ride in France. eg Insurance?
Whats the weather like round this time of year? Whens the best time with regards to weather, crowds and holidays etc?
What resorts are the best in terms of terrain, length of run, and vertical descent. Good night life with reasonable cheap accommodations.

Is there back packer type of accomadation at these resorts and if not what are the best options? Is it better to book accomodation or can you just rock up and there would be plenty of budget accomodation available? Any rough estimates on accomodation prices per night per person?
Do multi day lift passes have to be used on consecutive days. For example, can you use a 6 day pass over 10 days if weather is shite?

Would I be wise to explore more resorts if in france for 30 days or so and any suggestions on other good resorts that allow speed riding and things to do and see if weather is no good?

I will be arriving and departing via London. What is the best way to get to the alps and by which city from London is the most convenient?

Any suggestions on good long intermediate type of runs to begin for first couple of days?

Well that's about it for now. As said at the top, and advise or suggestions would be very much appreciated.
Hamish

Submitted by lo on December 18, 2007 - 5:51pm.

I would like to know what speedglider (real "save" speedglider, with a flat bottom surface) has the best glide.
Today I flew my nano 14 (06), trimmed for best glide, and came about 3.6km. The height differences between the starting and landing area were about 1.2km. -->glide: 1:3.

Submitted by kitesurfa on November 26, 2007 - 8:51pm.

Now the Products section almost complete and up to date, it would be great to get some reviews for the wings from both regular and pro pilots to add more content to each of the speed-wings web pages.

If you would like to help - please post your wing reviews on the forum.

Submitted by kk on November 9, 2007 - 7:51pm.

I really want to get going right away with Speed-Flying. It looks awesome. I will be based out of Idaho until January and then in Switzerland for most of the season if things go according to plan. Are there any industry people or other who can help me get started and make suggestions, etc. Where do I get started with gear, etc.? I don't fly but I think I can get that part and practicing in some wide open areas looks like fun. I can handle the skiing part. Thanks to anyone who can get ahold of me at krkreiter at yahoo dot com.

Thank you!
Kent Kreitler

Submitted by kitesurfa on October 11, 2007 - 10:28am.

Hey folks!!

as this website is for everyone involved in the sport we would like to know, When you are talking to people about the sport what expression do you use/prefer:
speedriding or speed-flying ....

Please take a few seconds and vote on the poll...

Submitted by kitesurfa on September 19, 2007 - 8:54pm.

Student crashes into cliff
13 September 2007, 06:21
By Caryn Dolley

In an attempt to win R50 000 for charity, a 20-year-old Rhodes University student fell 30 metres and crashed into a cliff on Table Mountain on Tuesday while he was being filmed base jumping.

Alexis McNaughton jumped from near the top of Table Mountain, hit a cliff and landed on a ledge on upper Platteklip Gorge, injuring his back and legs. Base (buildings, antenna, span or bridges, and earth) jumpers freefall for a few seconds before opening their parachutes. McNaughton's friend, who had been with him when he started climbing the mountain, said they had been doing a class project. "We were helping him. He was trying to enter a charity competition to win R50 000 and we had to film him jumping," she said.

Late on Tuesday night rescuers battled rain and plummeting temperatures as they walked from the bottom of the mountain to reach him. They carried him to the cable car, brought him down the mountain and transported him to hospital.
Before sunset an SA Air Force Oryx helicopter had winched five rescuers to an area below where the student had landed, but it had to turn back when thick mist prevented it from getting closer to the injured man. The Metro Red Cross AMS helicopter had also winched two rescuers, including a doctor, on to the mountain but the sturdier Oryx had to be called in because of the wind and mist.
McNaughton's parents, Paul and Sue, and a number of friends, stood for hours anxiously watching as rescuers tried in vain to bring him off the mountain by helicopter. They said they did not want to comment until McNaughton was safe. Earlier his friend, who did not want to be named, spoke to him by cellphone to explain what rescuers were doing.

Shortly after the accident, McNaughton wrapped himself in his red parachute and, despite his injuries, managed to wave to the rescuers at the bottom of the mountain. They had initially struggled to spot him.

McNaughton was a member of the EP Skydivers in Grahamstown and had skydived more than 150 times, a friend said. "But base jumping from a mountain is a completely different thing," he said.

In March two years ago, Karl Hayden, an experienced base jumper, suffered multiple fractures when he jumped from near the upper cableway station and his parachute did not open properly.

Hayden said he had jumped from different parts of Table Mountain a few hundred times, and the extreme sport was very dangerous. He emphasized only "extremely experienced" skydivers should attempt it.

"(Yesterday's) weather conditions weren't appropriate for a base jump. It would've been better for paragliding," he said.

'I was in trouble when I hit the first rock'
13 September 2007, 18:14

"I thought I was going to die," said the 19-year-old extreme sport enthusiast who amazingly survived a 30 metre fall down Platteklip Gorge, suffering only a few minor scrapes and bruises.

Alexis McNaughton, an economics student at Rhodes University, spoke to the Cape Argus from his bed at Christiaan Barnard Memorial hospital this morning after his "speed-flyer stunt" went horribly wrong. McNaughton, complete with a video camera taped to his head, launched off Table Mountain in an attempt to win a radio competition for the craziest thing one would do for R50 000.
"I took all necessary precautions but made a judgment error and didn't build up enough speed before I launched," he said.

"I have been (base) jumping since I can remember. But this was my first big accident."

McNaughton said he was shocked as he headed straight for the ground.

"I was in trouble when I hit the first rock ... I tumbled and tumbled a bit more, and woke up only 20 minutes later not knowing where I was," he said.

McNaughton said he was woken up by a telephone call from his classmates who had been filming his jump.

Dr John Roos, head of Wilderness Search and Rescue, said McNaughton fell at about 1pm and rescue operations took until 10pm.

He said McNaughton was carried to the cable-car station, from where he was taken down.

McNaughton said he would take to the skies again, but not immediately.

Bruised base jumper vows to fly again..
13 September 2007, 23:56

A Rhodes University student who survived a 30m crash off Table Mountain on Wednesday has vowed to "speed fly" again.
Speaking from his home in Stellenbosch on Thursday, Alexis McNaughton, 19, told Grocott's Mail that he was still walking with a bad limp, but would be back in Grahamstown for the start of the university term on Monday.

And when he's fully recovered he'll be jumping again, only this time he'll be "a little more careful".

McNaughton was attempting to win a competition offering R50,000 for charity by filming himself jumping and parachuting off the mountain. A team of 30 had to be airlifted in to carry out a rescue operation lasting almost nine hours.

McNaughton says cloud cover prevented a Red Cross helicopter from getting near the Platteklip Gorge ledge where he landed. Instead, rescue workers had to be lifted halfway up the mountain and climbed the rest of the way. As conditions deteriorated, a South African Air Force Oryx helicopter was called, but it too was unable to reach McNaughton.

On the ground, rescue workers strapped him into a stretcher and carried him to the cable car - which re-opened specifically to help ferry him to the ground. McNaughton eventually reached the hospital at 10pm.

Miraculously, he sustained only bruises, mild hypothermia, and two big cracks to his helmet. "It's amazing that I broke nothing, fractured nothing," he said. "It's really a miracle of God."

An experienced skydiver, he has previously jumped off Table Mountain six times using a technique that used to be called speed-flying. It's similar to paragliding because one runs off a cliff with an inflated canopy, says McNaughton, but the chutes are smaller and the aim of the game is speed, not flight time.

He thinks the reason things went wrong is because he didn't build up enough speed to get away from the cliff-face, hitting the rocks below and tumbling to a ledge where he lost consciousness for 20 minutes. When he came to, his cellphone had been ringing. He answered it and gave rescue workers his co-ordinates using a GPS he always carries when jumping.

The next few hours were the worst, waiting in the icy wind chill to be rescued. He wrapped himself in his canopy to keep warm, and kept talking telephonically to friends below who were anxiously watching the rescue operation.

News Source = http://www.capeargus.co.za

Submitted by dilmah on June 21, 2007 - 3:53am.

Just had my first go on my Bullet. Never Paraglided. Skied a lot, kitesurfed a lot. Does anyone know any good web sources for instructional tips, learning videos, general tips info. I want to learn as much as possible....
Thanks

Submitted by Freeflyn on March 14, 2007 - 9:46pm.

I have heard from a friend in Switzerland the following:

"I have read new articles from the Swiss civil aviation agency today, which have issued a new law end of february, which requires a paraglider license to fly a speedflying wing."

Can anyone confirm this? If so does anyone have a copy of the bill/law? Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance <img src="http://forum.speed-flying.com/my-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif" title=":)" class="bb_smilies" />
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Submitted by mrslaton on February 27, 2007 - 12:15am.

Swooping to speed flying…By Jim Slaton

After a decade of organizing high performance swoop competitions and among other things getting canopy piloting accepted into the IPC World Cup in 2003. I was on the lookout for a new and exciting way to bring swooping to the masses. It had become apparent to me that as appealing as swooping can be our sport has many things against it. The sport needs to be cheaper, it needs to be easier to learn it needs greater market appeal and attract both young and old. Think about it for a second, kids can watch the EXPN X games and get all pumped up. They can go right out and have mom and dad by them a skateboard and even though they can’t go right out and pull a 900 on a skateboard like Tony Hawk or bust a back flip on a motorcycle Like Mike Metzger they can easily participate. In addition, most of these sports have good sponsorship opportunities with a variety of different kinds of impressions. Let’s face it, sponsors don’t have a lot of product placement opportunities with a skydiver falling through the sky. The major networks tried this before with skysurfing in the X Games. If the sponsors of the games couldn’t get their logo on the jumper’s flight suit or on the sky board there was little product placement opportunity. This is one of the many reasons that skysurfing like all other skydiving disciplines before failed.

All this as evidence it has become obvious to many that skydiving’s last chance to go mainstream most likely rests with the success of swooping (A.K.A. Canopy Piloting). Since 1999 I have pushed the sport hard in an attempt to get that same opportunity that skysurfing once got. Through my own experience with the networks and associated agencies we need a new format and a new look. I created the Pro Swooping Tour for a variety of reasons but the main reason was to prepare us for those 15 minutes of fame (if it was ever to come). Over the years I have had many discussions with Network producers, head of marketing departments, fortune 500 companies and more. I learned much along the way and most of the feedback that I got about swooping I used to shape the sport into what it is today. I got a chance to present swooping to a few networks in which they heard the whole proposal and watched swooping videos. The comments I got was feedback like “Do you have a ranking system”? “How old do you have to be to do this”? “How large is your community”?

“What type of safety gear and guidelines does your organization have”? “Who sanctions your events”? “How long does it take to get to this level”? From this information I formed the Pro Swooping Tour, made a ranking system, made safety requirements and more.

Basically these guys would sit me down and go “Hey, you have an exciting sport here” but there are some important changes we would like to see before we could even consider this. You guys are moving at the speeds of motocross riders but you don’t have the proper helmet protection if protection at all. Some of your competitors are wearing shorts instead of protective clothing. If we took your sport for TV next week and told you we wanted the top 20 pilots, how would you choose those pilots?

There is another important consideration that shouldn’t be overlooked. Most extreme sports in the X Games race against each other in “Heats” which is exciting for the spectators and viewers at home. As swoopers we are racing the clock. Yes, there are other sports that race the clock too but we are trying to compete with the other extreme sports in our market for exposure….right? The people I had talked with were correct, our sport needed changes and we were unprepared to say the least. We shouldn’t feel too bad though. Take a look at our governing body. The International Parachuting Committee which is sanctioned by the FAI has not had a ranking system for the past 55 years!

So, after much consideration I came to a simple conclusion. We need to be better organized, we need a better format and we need to be able to bring it to the people. In 2004 I decided to give swooping a new and exciting extension to the sport. A new sport that almost anyone could try. A sport that was easier to get involved with and didn’t require an aircraft. A sport that doesn’t have an age limit. Among other things a sport with a bigger market and greater market appeal. I believed and still believe that ground launching is the closest thing we have to meeting all that necessary criteria. Even though skydivers have been foot launching skydiving canopies for decades it was time to reinvent a sleeping giant. That same year I went to work searching for good ground launching locations while putting together a training program. Among other things the training program would teach canopy flight to non skydivers. It took me a better part of two years to get people onto the idea of ground launching especially paragliders and non skydivers. At first paragliders dismissed ground launching as something called "sled riding" they used to do in the old days with big and old docile skydiving parachutes. It took me a long time to show them that swooping canopies are not your average skydiving parachute....not even close. We have been designing high performance parachutes for ground launching since before it was called "speed flying".

Most people don't realize it but I flew a hybrid (ground launching/swooping) canopy during the FAI's 1st IPC World Cup of Canopy Piloting in 2003! If you go back and look at video from this event you'll see that the black and yellow canopy I was flying has a hybrid nose, X-bracing only in the center three cells and ram air stabilizers. We have been working on Daedalus wings like these speed flying canopies since 2003. It became obvious at the Speed Flying School in California during the early days that it was much easier for a swooper (experienced skydivers) to learn to paragliding than it was for a paraglider to learn to swoop with these parachutes. The launching part was kind of the same but the flight totally different. I had already begun to paraglide myself and bought all new paragliding gear including a new reserve, a top of the line harness and wing. At the time, I was using and selling a small paragliding harness for ground launching called the "Radical". Even though it was not made specifically for the type of flying (swooping) we were doing it got the job done. I soon began sending edited videos to these paragliding companies in an attempt to get a sponsorship or discounted products. I sent all types of exciting footage of us Blade running down hills with all sorts of different camera angles. This was around the time we were finishing production on "Gravity Pilots" the movie.

The videos I sent them became popular among paragliders and before soon many of the top pilots were trying to do it. They all came to the realization that they needed a special wing to fly like us which was easier to learn than the modern "swoop" parachutes the top skydivers were using. I gave them as much feedback as I could and before long the first "speed flying" wings emerged. "Speed Flying", the new swooping sport was low and super fast compared to what paragliders were used to so the term "speed flying" caught on quick. For now speed flying is mostly done on snow with a pair of skis. Most pilots find it easier to launch with a pair of skis since smaller wings take more speed for the launch and additional considerations. We seldom use skis even though we have before and have learned all the different control inputs and special considerations to do so.

Keep in mind we are speed flying with the smallest parachutes in the world. I mean this truely since "Team Extreme" (the High Performance Parachute Team) has been around since 1999 and has the world record for flying and landing the world's smallest ram air parachute the Icarus VX 39 (39sqft, not meters). The team also performed parachute expeditions all over the world including the 1st to swoop and land on top of mountains like the Eiger and Mont Blanc. They produced several movies during that time including "Out of the Blue" which features them speed flying and landing parachutes on top of Mont Blanc in 2001. They also produced the movie "Gravity Pilots" which set the speed flying sport into motion in 2004. These and other videos are available for download at http://www.canopypiloting.com/videostore.htm

Speed Flyers will becaome less dependant on skis and snow as they gain more knowledge about the sport and the art of swooping.There are at least four or more paragliding companies that I know of making wings for speed flying right now. Compared to normal paragliding wings these wings are much faster. They are no swoop parachute like the Daedalus GLX but they do have features that skydiving canopies do not yet have. We are steadily closing the gap between swooping wings and speed flying wings. The speed flying canopies have one major design parameter that separates them from all the rest....they are fully elliptical. The latest versions have trims closer to swooping wings.

When the modern speed flying wings meet the future swooping designs like the Daedalus GLX it will be a site to see and feel. These new parachutes for the new sport of speed flying will carve the direction for the next generation of swooping canopies. It is funny how even the word swooping will become unclear after a while. Considering that as skydivers we view swooping as hook turning a high performance parachute and ripping across the ground during the landing. Now you can swoop with a high performance canopy after jumping out of an aircraft or after a ground launch. With all that being said I would like to point out that one of the latest speed flying wings built by a paragliding company is also called the "swoop". For more info about swooping and our sport check out...

Speed Flying forums-www.canopypiloting.com
Gravity Pilots-www.gravitypilots.com
Blade running-www.bladerunning.com
Pro Swooping Tour-www.proswoopingtour.tv
World Swooping Association-www.worldswooping.com

Jim Slaton

CEO Higher Entertainment

Contact Skype "HigherEntertainment"

jim at higherentertainment dot com

Submitted by Dk on January 9, 2007 - 11:24am.

Hi Folks

At March (3.-4.) we have the first Speedflying Air & Snowrace in the Austrian Alps.
The Mölltaler Glazier is the place to be. A Homepage will lounch soon at http://www.airandsnowrace.com

I will post some Infos about the Race in the next weeks.

Stay free and enjoy ur Rides, Cheers Daniel

Submitted by Adrian on January 7, 2007 - 3:48pm.

Hi to all! I'm a base jumper and skydiver and I'm looking to get into your sport but without the skis.I live in wales where we have some pretty big hills and i want to fly down them.I have been looking at some of the gliders out there but which one is best for foot launching and has a good glide.I weigh 98 kgs and was looking at a 14m2 swoop or nano.i will only be flying over green stuff and im used to flying small skydiving canopies.

Any advice would be cool and thanks!

Adrian

Submitted by bladerunner on December 18, 2006 - 10:07pm.

Hi guys!

What do you think about speedfly/bladerunning competitions in Europe?
Drag-racing, blade slalom, XC traversing?

I'm a skydiver from Ukraine and i many time fly without ski/snowboard, but i have experience with snowboard.

During last two years i work as instructor in my school of ground/cliff launch.

Our website: http://www.glc.crimea.ua

My few last videos:

Blade sport video.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-975397122099887124&hl=en

Blade extreme clifflaunch event.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3076546161899905784&hl=en

Blade december event.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6451376818058730013&hl=en

Now i fly on Skylark Odyssey 90 ft.

Submitted by jlouie on December 12, 2006 - 3:01am.

I kite and ski but have no experience paragliding or skydiving (yet). Simply amazed by the footage I have seen and would be very interested in trying this some day soon. Is there a minimum skill-set necessary to try this. Any suggestions for best way to safely get introduced to the sport? Any contact info for those who may be qualified to offer instruction?

Many Thanks,
Jlouie

Submitted by hörb on November 26, 2006 - 11:31pm.

Hallo zusammen würde mich freuen wenn Ihr euch auch in unserem deutschsprachigem forum mal sehen lasst und ein paar tolle sachen über euren Sport rein schreibt

Der Link dazu ist

http://www.naanoo.com/freeboard/board/index.php?userid=21732

MfG

Hörb

Submitted by manu on August 20, 2006 - 3:24pm.

We have done it! Daniel has started his nano today. More soon @ http://www.thermik.net
watch out!!!

Submitted by Lee Kian on July 12, 2006 - 7:50pm.

Swooping gave mountain swooping and ground launching.
Then logically came speed-flying (aka speed-riding)...

Where the hack did Lee Tamahori get the inspiration for Die Another Day's sequence where we see James Bond "speed-surfing" down a breaking iceberg generated wave?!

Although totally virtual I recommend that sequence of the last James Bond for the ideas of realization it can give...

Lol! Maybe someday we'll see Laird Hamilton speed-riding down Jaws... ^^

But first, is speed-riding adaptable to riding waves? big waves..?

Submitted by kitesurfa on July 7, 2006 - 1:21pm.

End of the snow season...

Has or is anyone been flying with no snow ?

I know you are only supposed to fly the bobcat with the bobcat harness. But is it ok to fly the nano with a bobcat harness? I have been my last 3 flights, and was curious. The dealer I bought my rig from (new) were out of the speedflyer harness so the gave me the bobcat harness free. Just curious. Thanks.

Any Speed-Flying girls ???

Check out Natalia Bonilla's website... Flygirls International

- a social network exclusively for women involved in high adrenaline sports.

http://www.flygirlsinternational.com/

Im gonna be working in the riverside ca. area next week and am gonna bring my speedwing. anyone know of any good site nearby?

Submitted by anthonypatt on April 10, 2006 - 10:51pm.

This looks amazing, and I can't wait for next winter. Three questions:

How do these wings behave in open air? Let's say you fly off a nice cliff, and get pretty far away from the slope. What kind of stuff can you do in the air? Is there anyway to slow them down to a reasonable crash speed, in case you realize you don't have a place to ski in to land?

Are these wings bombproof, so that even in rotor they behave nicely?

I found this website because Chiemsee Flugschule offered instruction in Speed Gliding. What would they teach me? I am a competition paraglider pilot, a constant free rider (telemarker, actually), and I have a brain.

Come to think of it, has anyone done this on teleskis? I am trying to think if that would be a problem.

Submitted by rparot on April 10, 2006 - 5:34pm.

Hi

my name is Ricardo Parot from Chile, I flew many years in PWC and in the sat team, now I will start speed flying in neex winter which one starts in a few month, the tracks in the andes mountains are around 3800 to 2300 mts aprox. any recommendation about the size.

which size is the nano blue on the video by mathias R.
best