Thinking of learning to fly a paraglider? Kerim Jaspersen’s new film explains all

UP have a new video about the Summit XC2, featuring Toma Coconea

The winner of XC360, Cross Country magazine’s short film competition has been announced

What sort of pilot are your? Cross Country’s psychology department looks at different paragliding and hang gliding personalities and questions why we fly the way we fly

Pal Takats has invented a new paragliding acro manoeuvre, the Esfera, which means sphere in Spanish.

The latest issue of Cross Country is out now in both paper and digital formats. Read on for editor Ed Ewing’s taster of what’s brewing inside.

Gradient’s Madeiran adventures: a movie by Felix Woelk

Gradient have been filming their latest paragliders, and the videos presented here are of their Avax XC3 serial class racer and the intermediate Golden3.

Top paragliding film, Gravity Never Sleeps, has been shortlisted for an award at FIFAD (the International Alpine Film Festival) in Les Diablerets from 7 – 14 August 2010.

Escape’s S’Pace is reviewed in issue 130 of Cross Country magazine. Marcus King takes a tour of the glider before test-flying it. Also available on YouTube in full HD • Got news? Send it to us at news@xcmag.com. Fair use applies to this article: if you reproduce it online, please credit correctly and link to [...]

This video shows paragliding guru Mike Kung’s tips on how to control a paraglider on the ground using the C and D riser method. For more Mike Kung tips and techniques from the comfort of your armchair, his DVD, Playground, is available now at XCshop.com

Neils Dachler, director of Performance Flying (available at www.xcshop.com) sent us this report on the Mexico Worlds that he filmed for American TV. The report was originally shown on the world famous ‘Good Morning America’. Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and [...]

This is a short video that Marcus King shot  with the GoPro when reviewing it for the magazine, see mini reviews issue 123. The files were downloaded and the video was quickly cut together, no image correction was applied to the video. Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view [...]

Taken from the Kitchen Productions Ground Handling DVD this top tip will teach you how to collapse your glider safely in strong winds. This method best suited for experienced pilots uses the A’s to collapse the wing while stalling the other side.

What’s the best way of turning your wing over. Taken from the Kitchen Productions Ground Handling DVD this top tip will teach you how to turn your glider over in a controlled manner. You can also use this method, on a soft grass surface to empty your glider of debris.

Brad Sander talks to Cross Country about his groundbreaking 224 km paragliding flight through the Hindu Kush in Pakistan in June 2008

The premiere of the Acrotwins’ new film, Lift_, will be at Torrey Pines Gliderport April 26

Jorge Atramiz and Herminio Cordido have come together again to work on a new short film.

Cross Country reports from Stubai 2008, the paragliding world’s kickstart to the season

Kari Castle on flying the women’s hang gliding world record in Zapata, Texas USA