Comps and Events

The Nissan Outdoor Games is back for its sixth consecutive summer. Five teams of sportspeople and filmmakers will each make a five-minute film, this time in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, France. The fifth team's director's chair is still vacant - Julbo are running a competition to fill this role.

The European Paragliding Championships in Abtenau, Austria, will be the first major competition to feature ‘real-time’ live tracking

Manfred Ruhmer is the new Class 2 hang gliding world champion, following two weeks of atrocious weather at the Women's and Class 2 Hang Gliding World Championships at Tegelberg, Germany.

The FIA El Yelmo International Air film festival in Andalucia, Spain, takes place on 1 - 4 July 2010. The deadline for submissions to the film and photo contests is 18 June.

California's Susanville Municipal Airport is hosting a fly-in on 21 August 2010, featuring air displays, aircraft rides and military fly-overs.

The Asian Paragliding Championships in Nishawa, Japan, kicked off on 2 May and have seen some good flying so far

The USA's Paragliding East Coast Championship has seen some big distance flown on the Florida flats

The 20th Lakes Charity Classic (LCC) hang gliding and paragliding festival will be held over the weekend of 4 - 6 June 2010 in the beautiful Buttermere in the English Lake District.

Rodrigo de Obeso has won the Mexican Open hang gliding championships which were held from 16 - 24 April 2010 at the sites of San Marcos and Tapalpa, Mexico.

Canadian extreme filmmaker Peter Chrzanowski is running a mountain sport festival from Pemberton in May, covering many sports including Peter's passion, paragliding.