There are only few mounths till the the beginning of the competition season so for the companies it's time to release their new acro gliders.

Improving the Razor (the prototype what Antoine Montant and Pål Hamar Rognøy compete with last year) Gradient made a new wing called Seven.

Description from the re-designed Gradient homepage:

12 years ago André Bucher - the owner of the Angel paraglider company - and his team with such an acro pioneers like Markus Gründhammer travelled to Hungary to make the first direct bag jumps from helicopter above the lake Balaton…

It’s probably the first „acro” video, from the time when acro meant spins, wing-overs and loopings and only a very small groups of pilots were „crazy” enough try all these things.

With the first looping and d-bag footages, enormous collapses, reversed connected pilots and ripped wings…it’s a must see movie!

Among many others, justACRO contains more than 1200 pictures, 100 videos and free access to the detailed descriptions of the acro manoeuvers (in 3 languages already).

Offering the G-FORCE U-Turn became accepted as the leading manufacturer of acrogliders in the world. Now the Generation G-FORCE can be glad to look foreward to the successor: The G-FORCE 360 now is available. Therewith U-Turn provides the basis to update the success story. The Three-Sixty offers more dynamic, reacts more directly and willingly to any steering activities of the pilot and is more agile in the overall handling. “Just one step more uncompromising acro” designer Ernst Strobl explains .

FAI released the Aerobatics Competitions Rules for Paragliding for the 2006 season. There are many interesting modifications since last year, so it’s recommended to read carefully the whole text. For example:

- Manouvres with 1.8 difficulty coefficient or more (like Misty to Tumbling, Tumbling, Rhythmic SAT, Infinite Tumbling) must be executed at the beginning of the program (at high altitude), for safety reasons