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An article by Ojovolador.com, reported by Horacio Llorenz.

The second edition of the Revoluttion event was held last weekend (August 6-8) with the participation of about thirty pilots, some foreigners, who flew three tasks in the solo category and two in synchro in perfect conditions over the lake of La Pobla de Segur. Horacio Llorens (RR Radix) took the top place overall, ahead of team mate Raul Rodriguez (RR Radix) and the Argentinean Hernan Pitocco (Sol Supersonic). Horacio reports from the competition.

Grillmayer Alexandra in female and Pál Takáts in the overall category have won Paranoia Acrobatixxx, the first of the - only - two World Cup events of the season, held in Zell am See, Austria for the fifth time! As usual the altitude in the flying box was pretty low, between 3-400 meters so the pilots were performing 3 maneuvers only. It means that everything has to run perfectly, otherwise even a small mistake makes out big differences in the scoring. Regarding the new rules now the landing takes 20% of the total scoring (it is the double than it used to be) and the ground spiral coefficient jumped up from 3 to 4 which makes the landings a lot more exciting since everybody is giving a try for the spiral-raft landings to get out maximal points.

However the competition situation looked quite like terrible in spring, at the end we can now look forward to a pretty busy August, as the final of the year's comp season. A quick overview of the next events:

Revoluttion 2010, Spanish Open - La pobla del segur, Spain, 05-08. August
http://www.revoluttion.es/

Swedish Championships and Norwegian Cup, in Åre - Sweden, 5.-8. August.
www.downteam.com/challenge2010

Swiss Championship - Melano-Lake Lugano, Switzerland, 13-15. August
Only 10 days left to register!
http://acrogeneroso.wordpress.com/news/

Sonchaux Acro Show - Villeneuve, Switzerland, 19-21. August
http://www.acroshow.ch

AcroAustria APWC - Ossiachersee, Austria, 25-29. August
http://www.acroaustria.at/

The registration for the AcroAustria APWC at the Gerlitzen is now open!
Sign up deadline is 5th August!
www.acroaustria.com
See you there!

Competition calendar of 2010 with all confirmed and planned events of the season (updated on 10th May).

"For the third year in a row Antoine Montant has once again dominated the art of speed flying.

Antoine Montant, for the third year in a row has won the Speed Flying Pro Les Arcs 2010, the referred to worldwide competition that combines skiing and piloting quickly a wing.

The rest of the podium consists of François Bon, one of the innovators of Speed Flying
who has today performed in his hometown with serenity as well as the zesty Yoan Castagnoli who finished third and was highly noticed for his inventiveness, his enthusiasm and his involvement. A third winning party devoted to experience and opening doors to new blood.

« Yo (Castagnoli) and Vince (Reffet) are agitated, they are jumping every where! Antoine Montant comments. I privilege skiing, to have strong supports, finding technical paths with changing rhythms: staying calm during the delicate parts and letting my hair down when I can. »

The competition was divided into two freeride sets, which were fought out Wednesday on the flanks of the Aiguille Rouge situated on the side of the Arandelières which is The Arcs territory.
The speed flyers are free to choose their itinerary, by skiing on the snow and flying on this magnificent untouched side, between corridors and snow powdered fields. A high speed ballet between the rocks. Thier descent is graded on three criterias by a jury : the technique ( the difficulty of the figures), the style (fluidity, the harmony of the skiing and the flying), and the course chosen.

If the control Antoine Montant has in this sport is confirmed, he has won with little advance, the general level of the Swiss, the Austrian and the German competitors has considerably increased. « Until now, Yohan Castagnoli notes, only one and only speed flyer distinguished himself from the others : Antoine. But today three or four have made his position questionable. »

The best is always the best, but he is no longer all alone way up there on the mountain. Speed flying has started to evolve and today Antoine has surely felt the wind of the other wings against his skin.

François Bon and Antoine Montant will now set off to produce a Speed Flying premiere on a mythical side of the Alpes. The destination, still being kept secret,
will be revealed on this website."

Fore more info, pictures, videos and results follow; http://www.speedflyingpro.com/