Mastering Paragliding by Kelly Farina is the latest book from our book publishing arm. Kelly has been a paragliding guide for 15 years and was on the comp scene for a decade too.
A labour of love for Kelly it’s been a three year project for him – and that was before he handed over the finished manuscript to his publisher (us). We are super happy he did. In our opinion it fills a big gap for pilots who are progressing through the sport, learning to thermal and fly xc.
At the heart of it is the ‘pyramid of progression’, a concept Kelly identified several years ago through his guiding work to help pilots know what steps to take to progress efficiently and safely. It removes a lot of the randomness of ‘learning by doing’ and replaces it with a learning structure, simple concepts and easy to understand techniques.
It makes the ‘higher arts’ of paragliding acessible and understandable. Is that pilot staying up simply because he or she is a sky god? No, they’re using skilled techniques that can be learned. Kelly’s new book helps pilots understand those techniques and explains how to learn and apply them.
We are very proud to welcome Kelly onboard as a new author.
Find out more at xcmag.com/masteringparagliding
