WingmanCam – A Different Perspective
Nothing enhances the thrill of a flight outing quite like recording yourself on video camera. What better way to share your adventures with the rest of the world? Filming one's own self is difficult for paragliding and...
Seiko Fukuoka’s Record-Breaking 406km Paragliding Flight
Seiko Fukuoka-Naville has been working toward holding the world record for women's straight distance paragliding. She has been trying to achieve her ultimate goal of holding all of the long distance paragliding world records....
U.S. Paragliding Nationals 2015
Owens Valley showed its teeth last week at the OVXCC US Paragliding Nationals. Winds knocked out four of the seven days. Mitchell Riley won the men's competition with 1048 points. Josh Cohn came in second with...
2009 United States Paragliding Nationals
The 2009 United States Paragliding Nationals begins on Monday in Dunlap, California. Dunlap is a small community located about 40 miles east of Fresno and 20 miles west of the Sequoia National Park
The U.S....
2009 World Air Games
The United States sent 17 competitors to the World Air Games between June 6th and June 14th 2009. This event is the premier event of for air sports enthusiasts boasting 10 disciplines, 27 competitions, and 3 venues...
2009 United States Paragliding Nationals – Utah
Part two of the United States Paragliding Nationals was held in Salt Lake City Utah at the Point of the Mountain Flight Park. Event organizers scheduled seven competition days between August 16-22.
This is the...
2011 Paragliding Nationals – Hearn
The second half of the US Paragliding Nationals was held between August 14 and August 21, 2008.
After the first half of the national competition at Red Rock, Dean Stratton had a narrow lead of...
2011 Paragliding World Championship Cancelled
The 2011 Paragliding World Championship was cancelled after safety concerns.
Two competition pilots crashed and died on the first day of the competition in separate incidents. On that same day there were three other reserve deployments....
109th FAI Conference Honors Americans
In recent skydiving news, the 109th FAI Conference held last month in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, honored two American sportsmen for their accomplishments.
You just can't keep a good man down.
Jarrett Martin received the Breitling Youngster Award for...
2009 World Paragliding Championship
The 2009 World Paragliding Championship was held in Valle de Bravo in Mexico with 148 pilots. Their competition consisted of 10 tasks flown between January 25th and February 6th, 2009.
Top individual honors was awarded...
New Women’s Paragliding Record
It has been just a little over three years since Kamira Pereira flew 324.7km (about 201 miles) and set a women's world record for paragliding. On November 20, Seiko Fukuoka slaughtered that record as...
2013 World Paragliding Championships
Paragliders from all over the world gathered in Sopot, Bulgaria between July 13-26 for the 2013 World Paragliding Championship. This beautiful yet challenging sport has drawn competitors from all over the world.
This year, Jeremie Lager...
Top World Records Countdown of 2012
The summer of 2012 was marked by any number of hang gliding, paragliding and skydiving world record records; in fact, some records that have held their ground for decades were shattered. Let's take a...
Parahawking
When Scott Mason took up falconry at the age of 12 in East London he often dreamed of being able to fly like the birds of prey he trained. It wasn't until his around-the-world...
Paragliding World Record, Meet Nick Greece
A few weeks ago, Nate Scales was still receiving handshakes and congratulations from fans for his paragliding world record-breaking flight of 319km over the northern Rockies when that record was broken by another paragliding...
New USA Paragliding Record
On June 30, 2012, in Sun Valley, Idaho, Matt Beechinor set a new paragliding record for the United States. Little did he know, Nate Scales would be coming on the scene, to the same...
Meet the Women in US Paragliding Nationals
Paragliding isn't just a man's sport, although according to paragliding statistics, men outnumber the women 85/15. Most instructors agree that paragliding is really more about technique than strength, so the ladies could easily do...
Powered Paramotor Flies Across Canada
Benjamin Jordan has just completed a 10,000 kilometer powered paramotor crossing of Canada in an effort to raise money for underprivileged children in Canada. Jordan started on the west coast of Canada in Tofino,...
Foundation For Free Flight
The Foundation for Free Flight is an organization that helps promote and conserve the free flight sporting industry in America. The organization was originally founded in 1987 to help support teams competing in hang...
Beach Blast Cancelled Due to Government Restrictions
April brings disappointing powered paragliding news: Beach Blast, an annual powered paragliding (PPG) event at the Edgewater Resort in Panama City, FL, has been cancelled. Beach Blast was the largest PPG event in the...