Competitions

This year's first APWC event, Vertigo Swiss Riviera, the biggest and oldest acro competition will be held this week for the 11th time in Villeneuve, Switzerland! Beside the World Cup it will be also the 1st Swiss Championship.
Today is the pilot registration and the first briefing for all the solo, synchro and the few hangglider pilots. This year the main focus is on the synchro category, however there will be also 30 of the world's best solo pilots competing. The level is getting higher and higher so it will be interesting to watch the upcoming young talents, fighting against the pro's.

At the weekend we will also see a new concept of competition, with only a limited amount of invited solo pilots and synchro teams (the best 18 pilot and 8 teams, based on the FAI World Ranking). They will be completely free to choose their choreography to impress the public with original ideas and spectacular moves. 2 pilots/teams will form couples and they will compete against each other, elliminating the opponent directly. Beside the 2-3 FAI judges other VIP's and invited guests will score these runs and the results will be published right after the runs. See the detailed rules of the "Open" competition here.

After a one year break the organizers of the Wagas Festival decided to make this great event again, for the 5th time at the Dune du Pyla, France, the highest dune in Europe.

Once again, the Sup'air team pilot Charlie Piccolo, the king of the Dune was unbeatable!

1. Piccolo Charlie
2. Boisselier Antoine
3. Assael Niko
4. Chatain Bertrand
5. Pluvieux Harold
6. Cau Vincent
7. Ostermann Pierre
8. Gallon Richard
9. Fourcroy Frédéric
10. Fritz Olivier
...

Visit:
www.wagas-festival.com

This year PARAnoia ACRObatixx will be an APWC Competition. The event will be held 16th till 19th July 2008 above the city of Zell am See in Austria.

It will be a competition in one category only - SOLO. The registration limit for solo pilots is 40. At the first day there will be the qualification run in the morning for all pilots who never flew before an APWC. The FAI runs are planned for Wednesday till Saturday. The Expression Session out of the Helicopter (limited Pilots) will be on Saturday in the late afternoon. After the heli drops ther will be the very well known "Zeller Seefest" with fireworks and good music.

The registration will be open from 1st May till 15th June 2008.

For further information and registration please visit www.acro.cc

Some information and new interesting concept of the upcoming Vertigo Swiss Riviera APWC event:

"The Vertigo Swiss Riviera will host the world cup, and also the 2nd Swiss Championships during 24th to 29th of June in Villeneuve, Switzerland.

This year, the focus is on synchro! There is a registration limit of 20 teams and 20 slots for solo as well. For the hanggliders, 15 slots have been opened.

The runs will be completed by some of the Swiss pilots who will compete to obtain the title of Swiss Champion.

Four CM FAI runs are planned from Wednesday to Sunday, exception made of Saturday, during which a brand new concept of paragliding competition is planned: The Vertigo Open.

The Registration for the FAI event is between the 29th of March and the 5th of May!

The Vertigo Open is an aerobatic paragliding competition, with two categories: solo and synchro.

Two pilots will compete against each other, with direct dismissal. A new way of “live” scoring will inform the pilot and the public of the result of each run, with a delay of one or two minutes.

The jury is composed of FAI judges and of personalities selected by the management of the Vertigo Swiss Riviera.

See you soon!
Team Vertigo Swiss Riviera"
www.acrovertigo.ch

7 teams, 5 sports and 5 days to make a movie! That's the challenge of the Nissan Outdoor Games by Columbia which's first winter edition was held from 10th to 17th of January in Chamonix, France (there were already 3 succesful summer editions in Interlaken, CH). Skiing, snowboarding, mountaineering, base jumping, paragliding, and speedriding – these were the sports that had to be included in a 5 minutes long movie and a slideshow with the best 20 pictures by the photographers of each team.

From 21st till 25th of January the World's best speedriders got together in St. Arlberg to
The athletes themselves will assess the runs of their competitors on the basis of objective video material according to the following criterias:

- Choice of line
- Skiing skills
- Flying skills
- Energy and smoothness of the run
- Creativity of the touch and goes

The top three had been chosen to compete in a superfinal after a qualification process held two days earlier which had seen 16 speedriders from six nations battle it out on Arlberg’s Mattun mountain. The pilots themselves had made the selection at a public judging event on Tuesday evening by means of a video analysis.