These days a brand new type of acro event is taking place in Bulgaria, Sopot created by mastermind Veso Ovcharov: the Red Bull Acro Cross! 

The competition merges the two big disciplines of the sport – acrobatics and cross country - into one unique format. The hosting town Sopot, is already well known in XC competition scene. Parcicipants are all manually selected and invited and there are some big names among them such as Francois Ragolski (Acro World Champion 2016), Nicola Donini (2nd in World Cup Superfinal 2018), Félix Rodriguez or Tim Alongi.

Today the third task of the event is running with....

By also winning the last Aerobatics World Cup of the season, Théo de Blic celebrated the second overall World Cup victory of his life at the price giving of AcroMax in Italy! Chile's Bicho Carrera and Colombia's César Arevalo were following him on the ladder - demonstrating the latino power in the scene!

Théo wrote in social media:

Yesterday I realized my kid's dream, but this time for the second time... the emotion that comes with the world cup winner title is always so strong but in a very different way. The first time was....

The first week of August fans of aerobatics paragliding from all over the world colored up the sky at the Gerlitzen, Austria. Thanks to all the participants for the good vibes and nice memories! Check out the photo gallery of the event by Rolling Stone Photography.

Click here to see the photos of the Boogie Photo Contest.

The final battle went down between the two young French talents Théo de Blic and Tim Alongi. Théo once again has proven his dominance in the aerobatic world with a 2:4 win. The battle for the 3rd place between Victor 'Bicho' Carrera (CHL) and Egor Posokhin (RUS) was really tight with Bicho coming out on the top with a 3:4 victory. 4th placed Egor took the price of the best trick with his own trick the 'Hardcore Infinity' which beside the Superstall to Infinity (only performed by Théo, Egor, César), Twisted Misty Tumbling and the Double Backflip Dynamic Stall turned out to be the most respected tricks of the contest – top participants reported.

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Due to the weather forecast for the weekend the organization team decided to hold entire the competition today - the most promising day for the rest of the week. Briefing will take place at 12:30 in the Camping of Organyá and then all pilots will head to the take-off to begin with the qualification rounds. Head judge Pál Takáts will be announcing the maneuvers that everybody need to perform one by one.
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