12 years ago
There has been lots going on recently in the acro world! Seems like the acro world is still pretty hot on Tumbling around as much as simply possible! Check this out:
1. Max Marien from the US demolishes the Infinity Tumbling record with 88 extra revolutions! The new record is now 374 turns!
2. Félix Rodriguez foot-launches from Mont Blanc and tumbles 264 times!
3. 18 years old David Tejero from Malaga performs 202 turns with a paramotor!
1. Max Marien from the USA, California broke the Infinity Tumbling World Record with an impressive number of 374 revolutions! He demolished the old record with not less than 88 turns!
The previous records were set by Hernan Pittoco (286), Horacio LLorens (281), Chrigel Maurer (210 &158), Antoine Montant (122) and the inventor of the maneuver Raúl Rodriguez (108). All these names are quite well known in the paragliding scene, so no wonder most of you are probably asking youself: WHO IS MAX MARIEN...?!? Just in a nutshell: Max is from San Diego, 24 years old and has been paragliding already for half of his life. You can read more about Max in an interview here. Max jumped from a chopper of Corporate Helicopters from 16,099 feet (4906 meter) above the ocean near San Diego. The video of his flight is about to get published soon.
2. On the 19th of August in epic flying conditions with over 5000m cloudbase over 50 pilots top-landed Europe's highest mountain the Mont Blanc (4810). Including Félix Rodriguez flying on his 18.5m2 Ozone Trickster acro wing! After enjoying this extraordinary experience he took off again, flew out over Chamonix and performed 264 turns of Infinities - says on his facebook profile! By this he set a new record by foot-launching a paraglider from a mountain instead of jumping out of a helicopter or other aircraft!
3. David Tejeiro, the little "Malaguita" flew 202 Infinitiy Tumbles flying a PXP Paramotor and a SOL Supersonic 17m2. David is only 18 years old and is currently practicing a lot of acro, flying paramotor over his hometown in Competa in Malaga, Spain. You can find plenty of videos about him on Youtube.