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XCTürkey is an international meeting and flying trip of cross country and acro paragliding pilots, in association with justACRO.com.

Competitors and non-competitors from all countries and cultures who wants to discover the REAL Türkey are very welcomed. Only open mind and good humour is required!

The trip

The tour and competition will be held between the cities Karaman, Beysehir and Antalya will provide you free flying oppotunities, a 500km long area, with more than 83.000km2.

Brand new wonderful take off's have especially been built for the event with very good free distance possibilities above nice Anatolian landscapes. During the test period in june 2010, flights of 262km and 242km were realized!

Cultural tour

XCTurkey paragliding cup & cultural tour is more than a competition it’s also an excellent flying trip into the heart of turkish culture.
Non flying days will be used to discover historical and cultural sites...

The Acro Jam, a friendly non-commercial paragliding meeting will take place this weekend (10-11. July) in Austria at the Krippenstein. Many acro pilots will gather together to enjoy the perfect summer weather conditions together and get some more training flights before the first World Cup event in Zell am See (coming up on the following week).
More infos at http://acrojam.jimdo.com/

Have fun!

The concept: summer flying holidays in the middle of the winter! Travelling around the country visiting numerous flying sites always on the hunt for the best weather conditions, enjoying tropical foods, the strong south-american sun and everything that belongs to it! ;-)

I. South Brazilian round trip: 17-31th January 2011
II. Central Brazilian round trip: 28th March - 11th April 2011
III. Special guided tours for smaller groups or individuals - on request!

The biggest spanish paragliding meeting and exhibition was celebrating its 10th aniversary this weekend! The small village of Segura de la Sierra, on the foothills of Yelmo mountain hosted more than 300 pilots and every evening, once the the strong conditions calmed down the sky completely filled up with paragliders, which looked like a cloud of mosquitos from the landing place. During the day invited international and spanish pilots were entertaining the crowd, like Alejandro and Raúl Rodriguez, Horacio Llorens from the SAT Team, the Green Twins, the justACRO Team with Pál and Gábor, and with paramotor Ramón Morillas, Mathieu Rouanet and Thomas Dordolot pulled some crazy tricks.

On saturday evening the first ever paramotor freestyle competition was held with judges composed of justACRO Team and other paramotor pilots. The participants had 5 minutes to perform their free program, which always started a couple of hundred meters high with some acro tricks and ended up in close-ground playing. The french Mathieu Rounaet showed the public why is he the world champion of the discipline. After some impressive acro tricks like a super speedy Asymmetric SAT and a HUGE looping, he continued with hardcore "waga" session, just a few meters from the spectators who were absolutely stucked in their seats of what they've witnessed. Finally the top 3 finishers were Mathieu, Raúl and Ramón.

In the exhibition tent Raúl had also his own stand of his new company, the RR Acro Wings, the first one in the history of paragliding, only specialized in designing acro gliders. The competition model the Radix is already finished and the freestyle glider, called the Matrix is about to get to the market as well. Despite that the Matrix is being promoted as as an "intermadiate" glider, with its low aspect ratio, long lines and compact profile Raúl is showing some extremely radical tricks with his 16m2 prototype, such as getting up from SAT to Infinity in not more than only 4-5 rotations, which has never seen before.
He said: "Right now I am super busy with the business and just cannot wait to get some free time to go to fly and train with my new toys. I am full of motivation and have some ideas of new maneuvers, I just need the airtime to work it, but the Matrix is definitely the tool to discover something new!".

Sounds great, we can't wait either!

On the upcoming weekend of 27th and 28th of Jun the the beach of Geneva will be busy with an event called Global Vibes, based on the four elements: air, earth, fire, water. The air will be represented by some of the world's greatest acro pilots during a daily show. The pilots will launch from the Baby Plage, using a winching boat from 2 pm. through all the afternoon and the evening! In the meantime tons of other programs and concerts will entertain the public.

Come over to watch us and enjoy the show!

+ info at: http://www.wix.com/globalvibes/Live