Acro World

Please help and sign this petition! There is a major problem building in Austria. The Ministry of Transportation is about to make transponders to be a mandatory equipment to carry for all aircraft including paragliders and hang-gliders to be visible on radar screens! This would be a huge throwback for the free-flying community and a potential danger that other countries will follow this example! Support the movement against the transponder!

Horacio Llorens, multiple paragliding aerobatics World Cup Champion and Infinity Tumbling Guinness record holder announces his new sponsorship deal with Gradient - he told us these breaking news in a skype call two days ago. We managed to get hold of him at home in Albacete, Spain as he was making his final preparations for the next Search Project starting today.

Austria's well know paragliding spot, Gerlitzen has been a center of acro paragliding since the birth of the sport. Due to some recent incidents, the acro community got into focus, and the foreign flying licenses are not accepted anymore, pilot have payed fines. Read on...

Interviewed by Pál Takáts, nowadays most innovative acro pilot, Raúl Rodriguez and Félix Rodriguez tell about their pioneering history in the sport, the good old times, the "secret spot", the evolution of the acro maneuvers and much more...

Filmed by Ahsudio in summer 2011 in Organyá, during the shootings of the EVOLUTION, a short paragliding documentary.

Since more then a year now some are pushing paramotor flying with their acro wings hard and at least since Hernan Pitocco (ARG) did the first Infinit Tumble, we all realized that this new way exists.
Recently we hear a lot from the Malaguitas (ESP) flying non stop with their paramotors; Javi doing huge wingtip touches or pulling the first connections like the Infinit to Helico.