The ParagliderCelebrating ten years of podcasting! We published our first ever paragliding podcast a decade ago.
Our latest podcast is a route analysis of the 2018 X-pyr with Flybubble’s Greg Hamerton. Greg participated in the 2016 race and in this podcast, he talks through this years (much more complicated) course, some of the tactics the athletes might employ and how hard the race is.
Listen to the podcast below:
The X-Pyr is a flying and hiking competition, inspired by the Red Bull X-Alps, in which a selected number of teams, comprised of one pilot and one assistant race across the Pyrenees, from west to east, starting at the Bay of Biscay and finishing at the Mediterranean. The first one to achieve this objective, just by flying a paraglider and on foot, will be the winner.
I have been chasing the 200 km mark for the second season now. Last year I settled for a 193 FAI Triangle, it was a massive feet for me as a pilot at the time.
Following his great podcast on acro and the British Acrobatic Paragliding Academy, Alex Colbeck is looking to new adventures. In May / June this year, the Niviuk UK team pilot will try a challenge nobody has ever tried before. If successful, he will hike & fly into the record books. How? He is attempting is to hike & fly the three largest hills in the UK, as well as the three highest peaks in Yorkshire in 24 hours.
Gavin McClurg unravels the complicated subject in this very useful article. Also, don’t miss his latest podcast, a great interview with Russ Ogden