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Friday Freakout: Epic Tree Crash-Landing. Fail!

Andrew — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:50:39 +0000

This just might be the dumbest thing Solomon Ould has ever done. He wanted to ground launch off the other side of the mountain and land on the beach. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but without much wind and no (good) landing area in sight, his unplanned journey leads to an epic crash-landing in a forest of tall trees — almost getting impaled by a broken tree stump in the process.

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Flying Donkey Shocks Beachgoers. WTF?!!

Andrew — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:47:09 +0000

Local entrepreneurs in Russia thought it would be a brilliant idea to send a parachuting donkey into the sky as an advertising stunt to promote their parasailing business. Bad idea. Really, really bad idea. Unfortunately there’s no cure for stupid.

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Parachute + Snowmobile = Parasledding

Andrew — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:50:47 +0000

Mind. Blown. No, this has nothing to do with skydiving or BASE jumping, but it’s way too cool not to share. And I’m pretty sure this has never been done before. Introducing parasledding, where paragliding and snowmobiling are combined for one hell of a badass ride down a mountain!

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Friday Freakout: Grown Man Cries In The Sky

Andrew — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:50:40 +0000

There’s nothing like a grown man crying to put a smile on your face. My fave part is when he says “allllaaaaaaaa allaaaaabibki aaaa allahuakbar lalaya dabeeeeeeeyaaa!!!”… or something like that.

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Friday Freakout: Line Twists, With A Pinch Of Ground Rush

Andrew — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 12:50:30 +0000

Thermals are a paraglider’s wet dream. That is until your paraglider goes boom! Then that wet dream turns into wet underwear faster than you can say “oh shiiiii…” As the ground rush intensifies, the video cuts out — he didn’t think his GoPro was on, so he thought he was turning it on to film the impact but ended up turning it off instead. Double fail.

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Sky Circus: Trapeze Meets Flying

Shannon Seyb — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:57:12 +0000

Only the French would mix extreme sports with a circus and a pretty girl! Acro paragliding pilot Gill Schneider has some fun with jugglers and a beautiful trapezist, Roxane Giliand, and creates something magical in this short film. Certain judges seem to agree, awarding ShamsProd Best Original Film for Coupe Icare 2012.

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Contrast: Visual Inspiration

Melanie Curtis — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:08:04 +0000

As someone who doesn’t paraglide (yet), it’s easy to see from Team Freestyle’s video how paragliding is right up our skydiving alley. Meaning, it’s yet another amazing way for us to experience stunning places with our best friends. It sounds cheesy, but a video like this makes me think everything awesome in life is possible. Like, if this type of beauty and experience and FUN is real… everything must be. Yeah, I’m into visual inspiration. Check this one out.

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ParaBASE: Paraglider Cutaway To Freefall Stunt

Andrew — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:50:08 +0000

A cool scene from the Play Gravity 2 movie, where Benjamin Zenhäusern cranks out a few infinity tumbles on his paraglider before cutting away and tossing himself into freefall. Benjamin is no stranger to ParaBASE and cutaways. Check out this first-person footage from one of his other paraglider cutaways, which resulted in a long delay and very low pull.

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Friday Freakout: Ground Launch Fail

Andrew — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:50:00 +0000

Here’s a lesson in ground launching. Step 1: Don’t do this! Step 2: See step 1. Clearly not the best way to start off a day of speedflying, but despite the minor crash he still managed to brush himself off and squeeze out a few good flights for the rest of the session. Of all the ground launching fails, I’d have to say the paraglider who cheated death in Moab is scariest I’ve ever seen.

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King of the Mountain

Andrew — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:50:51 +0000

With BASE, tandem BASE, paragliding/speedflying and rock climbing at your fingertips (pun intended), the famous Fisher Towers in Moab is a playground for big kids. Thanks to Moab BASE Adventures for the fun edit. Check out some more fun footage from Marshall Miller of the GoPro Bomb Squad buzzing around the towers.

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The Urban Side

Andrew — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:50:24 +0000

Flying a paraglider through the urban side of South America? Hells yeah. Sign me up! Thanks to Jean-Baptiste Chandelier for this creative edit.

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Friday Freakout: Ground Launching Into A Herd Of Cows

Andrew — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:50:46 +0000

He’ll be practicing ground launching until the cows come home. Literally.

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Friday Freakout: Shit! I’m Stuck On The Statue Of Liberty

Andrew — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:50:57 +0000

An epic paragliding fail by French stuntman Terry Do, who got his wing caught on the Statue of Liberty’s torch. Nice try Terry. You get an “E” for effort. Here’s another epic paragliding fail for your viewing pleasure.

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Amazing Parahawking in Nepal

Andrew — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:50:20 +0000

WTF is Parahawking you ask? Parahawking is a fusion between falconry and paragliding. WTF is falconry you ask? I have no idea. But this is incredibly cool, so click LIKE, then share it with the world. Parahawking in Nepal, the company behind this concept, also supports vulture conservation projects.

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Friday Freakout: Truck Hits Paraglider

Andrew — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:50:43 +0000

Some days are better than others. Unfortunately for this paraglider, this just wasn’t his day. And I’m sure the next morning wasn’t any better. Maybe he was trying to copy Nick Batsch’s truck landing, but the timing was a little off? At least he learned a lesson: use the crosswalk next time.

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Beach Bums

Andrew — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:50:53 +0000

If you’re stuck in cold winter weather, you could probably use a warm vacation right about now. But if you can’t make that happen, at least you can live vicariously through this clip of a paraglider landing on a sandy beach in Iquique, Chile.

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Showtime: Acrobatic Paragliding Adventures

Andrew — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:50:45 +0000

A sick edit of Francois Ragolski’s acrobatic paragliding adventures through the desert, over mountains, into water, and everything in between.

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Friday Freakout: Angry Birds vs. Paraglider

Andrew — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:49:35 +0000

Don’t you hate it when you’re paragliding through the Indian Himalayas and a couple of real-life angry birds come along and mess your shit up? I sure do. But this Ruskie handles it like a champ. After a reserve ride and hard landing, all is well. Even the “angry bird” survives.

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More Than A Feeling

Andrew — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:57:42 +0000

A juicy edit by Paul Doppler of Team Freestyle from their paragliding adventures in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. Congrats on this stunning piece of cinematography, Paul, and great track choice too!

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Friday Freakout: Crazy Canopy Wrap With Paraglider

Andrew — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:37:47 +0000

Infinity tumbling on a paraglider can be a lot of fun. Especially when you first learn how… until you try one too many tumbles and become gift wrapped in your own canopy. David, you’re one lucky guy; that was quite the mess you were in! Good job on pulling your reserve with your arm caught in the lines.

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