Ozone Paragliders has released their new Octane 2 freestyle glider - based on their successful Octane FLX model. The Octane 2 is supposed to provide more dynamics but with still the same beginner-friendly handling and behaviour as the FLX.

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.

During its first 2 years of existence, the new “Evolution” competition format continuosly needed to be adapted and improved. Due to the lack of other occasions, this tuning was done during the APWC competition season. This was necessary in order to be prepared for a possible jump in quality of acro paragliding competitions in the near future.

The majority of the changes were suggested and requested by pilots. All changes have been discussed and implemented after agreement between the judges and the pilots' committee.

The weather was excellent for the Acro Paragliding World Cup competition and the small Dachstein village of Obertraun became a mecca for the world's finest Acro Pilots.

Altogether 40 competitors from 12 different nations took off from the Krippenstein mountain to perform three competitive flights for Solo and Synchro paragliding. The standard of competition was higher than ever before. Thanks to the excellent weather, all of the AcroJam events were able to take place according to the schedule.