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U-Turn’s 2012 professional acro paraglider: the Thriller 2K12

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
U-Turn's latest acro paraglider: the Thriller 2K12

U-Turn have released their latest professional acro paraglider, the Thriller 2K12

Wanted: acro pilots for paraglider display in Montenegro

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
The paragliding site of Brajici in Montenegro is above the beautiful Brecici Beach. Photo: www.montenegrofly.com

Montenegrofly are looking for acro pilots for a display in May 2012

Antoine Montant in Base jump tragedy

Monday, October 24th, 2011
Antoine Montant. Photo: Jerome Maupoint

Thirty-year-old French flying star dies in wingsuit accident

Sol Supersonic 2011 acro paraglider

Saturday, October 22nd, 2011
Sol's new acro paraglider, the Supersonic 2011

Sol have revealed their new professional acro wing, the Supersonic 2011

Niviuk N-Gravity 2 professional acro paraglider

Friday, October 14th, 2011
Niviuk's professional acro paraglider, the N-Gravity 2

Niviuk’s professional acro wing, the N-Gravity 2, will be availble from December 2011.

Sonchaux Acro Show 2011: Pictures

Saturday, September 3rd, 2011
Horacio llorens (ES), Eliot Nochez (FR, 2nd, right) and Pal Takats (HU, 3rd, left)

Horacio Llorens won the Sonchaux Acro Show held in Lausanne over the weekend of 19-21 August

Pål Hammar Rognøy Nordic acro champion

Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Pal Hammar Rognoy, Swedish and Nordic paragliding acro champion for 2011

Pål Hammar Rognøy is the new Swedish and Nordic paragliding acro champion

Paragliding at Monaco/Roquebrune suspended

Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
Chrigel Maurer launches from Mont Gros, Roquebrune, Monaco to win the 2009 Red Bull X-Alps

Paragliding and hang gliding suspended from Mont Gros at Roquebrune, Monaco from the 1 July 2011

Acro World Cup 2011: AcroOluDeniz

Monday, May 16th, 2011
JustAcro

Pal Takats wins the Acro World Cup in Olu Deniz

APCO’s new acro wing: the Twister MK II

Thursday, April 14th, 2011
APCO's second generation acro wing, the Twister 18 MK II

APCO’s famous Twister acro wing has been replaced with a MK II version.

Winter acro vid from TeamFreestyle

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
TeamFreestyle

New winter paraglider acro video from Austrian TeamFreestyle

Buzzard: freestyle and acro paraglider from Skyline

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
Skyline's new freestyle wing, the Buzzard

The Buzzard is a new freestyle / acro paraglider from Skyline

Monaco’s Roquebrune paragliding site at risk

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
Launching at Mont Gros, Roquebrune. Photo: Fred Gustafsson

Following a number of incidents, the future of paragliding at Roquebrune in Monaco is looking shaky.

Thriller 2K11: U-Turn’s new acro paraglider

Friday, February 18th, 2011
U-Turn Thriller 2K11

U-Turn’s highly acclaimed acro wing, the Thriller, has evolved into the even better Thriller 2K11

Icaro Instinct XS Acro paraglider

Friday, February 11th, 2011
Icaro Instinct XS Acro, paraglider for freestyle and acro beginners

Icaro’s Instinct XS Acro is a forgiving freestyle paraglider for pilots to learn acro on.

Swiss Paragliding Acro Championships 2010: Robair Coldwater acro sessions

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
XC

Swiss paragliding school Robair rescued the 2010 Swiss Acro Championships with a new event held in November … brrr.

Martin Gwosdz in acro tragedy

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
Martin Gwosdz. Photo: Martin Gwosdz

Martin Gwosdz, an acro pilot from Bavaria, Germany, suffered a fatal accident on Saturday 18 December.

Sup’Air’s team of paraglider acro stars grows

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
XC

Spanish paraglider acro stars Horacio Llorens and Felix Rodriguez, and France’s Baptiste Rousset have joined Sup’Air’s growing list of team pilots.

Ride of your life? Tandem infinite tumble with Pál Takáts

Friday, November 26th, 2010
XC

It’s not yet four months since Hungarian paragliding acro experts Pál Takáts and Gábor Kézi performed the world’s first infinite tumble on a tandem paraglider. Now Pál is offering passengers the benefit of his expertise and specially reinforced wing, to take a tandem infinite tumble ride.

New acro paragliding move: The Esfera

Friday, November 5th, 2010
The view from above ... Pal Takats looks down on Olu Deniz. Photo: Pal Takats

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