Swiss-based free flight equipment company Basisrausch have created a new glove for hang glider and paraglider pilots. The Crystal is a three season windproof glove that has been made for comfort, warmth and sensitivity.

The moulded, soft goat leather glove has side reinforcements, a light thermal lining and non-slip silicone grips. Long cuffs ensure no draughts get to your wrists, even whilst your hands are outstretched and exposed to the airflow whilst paragliding.
Recommended by Chrigel Maurer and the justACRO Team members.

Sup'air has just launched a unique selling action!
During the 2009 season a total of 12 special piecies of the Acro3 harness was produced exclusively for the Sup'air Team Pilots, designed by team leader Charlie Piccolo.

You can now bet and buy the harnesses of some of the most talented acro pilots on earth:

Raul Rodriguez, Pal Takats, Gabor Kezi, Cyrille Planton, Celine Barman, Charlie Piccolo, Cyrille Mark, Maeva Giacometti, Guillaume Chatain, Tim Alongi, Jeremy Bailly, Eliot Nochez.

All the harnesses are re-conditioned and in great shape, some with signature or special messages from the owner.

Argentinian Hernan Pitocco world class acro pilot on the 17th of Aprilperformed the first ever Infinity Tumbling with a paramotor on , flying his regular SOL Supersonic! Congratulations!

Shocking news from Spain: the youngest of the three Rodriguez brothers, Alejandro Rodriguez Fernandez died after an accident close to his hometown Albacete in Spain.

In summer of 2007, Pal Takats developed the connection how to enter a Helicopter directly from a Misty Flip. It means taking some energy with Wing-Overs or just from the exit of another maneuver, swing down straight under the glider, and spin it while the pilot is still climbing upwards. Instead of letting the wing shoot out from the Misty Flip, the energy will be braked down and the pendulum transforms directly and smoothly into a Helicopter. He presented it for the public and the judges at Paranoia Acrobatixxx as the first step to add this connection to the official competition's maneuver list. Till today it didn't happened, because the judges did not saw it as an independent, new maneuver combination (however the pilots themself did and started to perform it as a choreography element in their runs).
Back then, Pal already knew that this maneuver has a lot of potential and more undiscovered possibilities. In the last 2 years he was working to improove his technique, pushing the limits step by step further out. The ultimate goal was: performing the most radical Helicopter entry ever, straight from a close-to-vertical spinny swing, a so-called Asschopper. It is basically the most extreme version of the Misty Flip, entered from a Spiral or Asymmetric Spiral to the opposite side. Due to the amount of energy and the different style that's used to enter an Asschopper, in the beginning the whole movement really looks like the entry of a high Tumbling or Infinity, but then the glider will be spinned out (while the pilot is right above it!) and forced into the Helicopter rotation.
Thanks to U-Turn's new masterpiece the Thriller and last week's training in the Swiss-Alps finally brought the break-through for Pal and he managed to perform numerous successful transitions!

As he reported: "I can't tell how happy I am to finally realize this figure! The unique feeling of learning something totally new gave me a huge kick and it is great to feel so motivated for acro again just like 3-4 years ago! I had this idea in my head for more then 1.5 years. I had the feeling that it should be somehow doable, but it seemed to be such a big challenge that sometimes I wasn't really sure anymore if it can work out. Now, after a long winter sleep I had the chance to train a bit again and try out something which finally brought success and opened new dimensions! Right now I am only able to perform it nicely more or less one time out of three executions. It definitely needs more training to reach a better ratio but if it will take a couple of weeks or months or even a year, I really don't know...Anyway, I must say that for me this is the greatest connection ever: it has everything in it, all the tricks, all the techniques I've ever mastered, squeezed together into one beautiful move, all running down in just a second! In one moment you are like entering an Infinity and in the next one you are already turning in a Heli, practically pulling a coconut spin when the glider is right below you...it'is truly an art! The leading and the energy control just needs to be perfect, otherwise really nothing will work and there is simply no possibility, neither time to make any corrections...but this is exactly the beauty of it!"