Techniques and Skills

Helping you fly better with expert advice

Black Vulture in Colombia

The Head Game: Managing your emotions

Paragliding is an inner adventure – an encounter with oneself where every take-off, thermal, transition and landing is accompanied by a flood of emotions
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Flying in the Dolomites

Learning to Fly the Alps with Ferdi Vogel

Ferdinand Vogel explains how to use ‘triangle theory’ to find thermals in the mountains
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Juraj Koren ski and fly

The ski-and-fly path to enlightenment

Winter opens a new world of experiences, freedom and pure joy. Here is your pathway to the art form of ski-and-fly.
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Luke Nicol zones out to tune in at the SRS Àger 2025

Assessing your mental state

Understanding your mental state is essential to flying safely. Regular training will make you approach each flight with greater confidence
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Mike Vergalla flying sure and steady during the SRS Àger in 2025 Photo: Marcus King

How to: Deal with motion sickness

“Motion sickness is a completely artificial disease”, reads one of the first lines in the Nasa report. That seems crazy, but it's true...
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101 ways to fly better

Paragliding: 101 Ways to Fly Better

Coming soon... we get an early look at Paragliding: 101 Ways to Fly Better, a fully updated, fresh look at the sport of paragliding
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Eigertour

Swiss hike-and-fly – what’s their secret?

The Swiss have a reputation as good organisers, so we asked the Swiss League to share what they've been doing right to grow hike-and-fly
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The perfect cloud on a perfect day in Espírito Santo, Brazil. The clouds are well developed but not growing too tall, and they don’t have a lot of wind distortion, showing it is a light wind day. They have good dark bases and fluffy tops. In places you can see the bases are concave or even have a stepped base, indicating strong lift. Best of all, they go on for miles Photo: Jérôme Maupoint

Cloudbase: All you need to know

“Get to base” newer pilots are told – but what do you do when you get there? Bastienne Wentzel gets the experts to explain
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Paramotor in Western Australia

Paramotoring: Heading out on the skyway

Flying to new destinations is one of my favourite things to do. Rich Dolan shares his top five tips for paramotor cross-country flying
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Under Pressure

The Head Game: Mental Preparation

You know how to fly but do you know how to think? Start here...
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