Skills and learning

Helping you fly better with expert advice

‘Stall it out!’ – Cravat analysis with Malin Lobb

SIV instructor and Cross Country columnist Malin Lobb goes deep into the analysis of recovery from a 40% cravat and auto-rotation on a Zeno
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Paragliding: A Quick Guide for Beginners

Paragliding: A Quick Guide is a new download from Cross Country Magazine aimed at absolute beginners and new paraglider pilots.
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Managing your bandwidth

Paragliding instructor Malin Lobb looks at how a pilot’s mental bandwidth affects their performance in flight, and how we can work on increasing it
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Flying off the map: The mini guide to adventure flying

You need more than a Swiss Army knife to head off into the unknown. Bruce Goldsmith offers this advice for pilots looking to add some adventure to their flying
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Are you feeling it? The science of motivation

Motivation is the reason people do what they do – and in flying understanding and optimising your motivation can lead to big gains
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How to thermal better

To learn to fly faster, paraglider pilots need to learn to maximise their climbing speed. Mads Syndegaard shares some tips
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How to react when your glider collapses

Bruce Goldsmith on how you can train yourself to react the right way – and not over-react – when you get hit by a collapse
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Techniques: The art of coastal soaring

There’s more going on at the coast than you might think. Honza Rejmanek kites into the lift at his local cliff to explain
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Podcast: When should you step up a wing class?

Greg Hamerton answers that big question: When should you step up? When is the right time to fly a higher class of paraglider?
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Always listen to the feeling

Six-time Red Bull X-Alps winner Chrigel Maurer gave two talks in the UK in January 2020. Here are six takeaways from the maestro’s presentation
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