"First it was not called acro, we called it crazy stuff"- comments Richard Gallon, one of the sports pioneers as he devolves the history of the sport. The godfathers of paragliding acrobatics, Raul and Felix Rodriguez developed the majority of the maneuvers and laid the framework for the extreme sport.
Raul and Felix Rodriguez developed the majority of the maneuvers and laid the framework of aerobatic paragliding. Their trademark is a maneuver called SAT. On this video you can see the three dimension modell of this maneuver.
"Aerobatic paragliding is kind of a dance for me in the third dimension"- states Gábor Kézi in the fifty-minute documentary, Adrenaline and Turbulence. Through a blend of aerial dynamics and multidimensional interaction, Adrenaline and Turbulence explores the subculture subtleties of the evolving extreme sport of paragliding aerobatics (acro).
Acro paragliding heroes Pál Takáts and Mathias Roten set up for a freestyle synchro session in Organyá, June of 2007. Both of them had onboard camera. They were doing hardcore stuff and ended up in each others glider. Here you see the 3D animation of the incident.
Pál Takáts and Gábor Kézi (Justacro Team) performed incredible acro paragliding show on the Geneve city Festival (Fetes de Geneve) in August, 2008. There were five hundred thousand spectetors on the lakeshore.
Videos
In this film section extreme sport hero Mathias Roten talks about the history of acro paragliding.
"First it was not called acro, we called it crazy stuff"- comments Richard Gallon, one of the sports pioneers as he devolves the history of the sport. The godfathers of paragliding acrobatics, Raul and Felix Rodriguez developed the majority of the maneuvers and laid the framework for the extreme sport.
"Aerobatic paragliding is kind of a dance for me in the third dimension"- states Gábor Kézi in the fifty-minute documentary,
Base jumpers and paragliders jump from hot air balloon in Hungary
