Skills and learning

Helping you fly better with expert advice

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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Down Season: How to keep learning in winter

Greg Hamerton has some advice for paraglider pilots on how to keep learning during the winter season
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Paragliding techniques: How to Pump

Pumping a paraglider’s brakes used to be advised against, but Bruce Goldsmith explains why it has its place as an advanced technique for modern paragliders
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First Time Two-Line

Thinking about stepping up to a two-liner? Paragliding and SIV instructor Malin Lobb has some advice
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Lockdown learning: Backyard Meteorology

Stuck in lockdown, Tarquin Cooper put his time to good use with a free online meteorology course. But was it any good?
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Paragliding Tips: How to deal with shoulder pain

Physiotherapist Toby Clifford investigates a common complaint among hang glider and paraglider pilots and suggests some solutions
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