So close, one could taste the lakeside landing zone (LZ). That was how yesterdays coached paragliding flight with Pete Thompson ended. So close, yet not high enough to make the final transition to the lakeside. Instead I had to settle for landing at the Casa Veijas LZ and cab it back to town with one …
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Trial Flight: Paragliding Coaching in Valle de Bravo
Over the years I've come to realize that there are a quartet of relationship silos that everyone in my life falls into one of. Romantic, Personal, Professional, and Business. Each of these is disjoint and once a person is placed into a silo, they almost always remain there. Romantic is my significant other. Personal starts …
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Paragliding Coaching with Pete Thompson
The tagline for FlyinOrange.blog includes the search for 'Coaches, Courses, and Comps'. The latter two are a relatively straight forward affair, simply hit up paraglidingforum and find the latest course/tour listing or comp posting. Locating coaches, proper one on one coaches, is difficult. We have no one offering 1:1 coaching back home in Southern BC …
(Re) Familiarization Flight
Four months. Four months since the wing has seen the light of day. Four months of skill atrophy, lost bump tolerance, and unexercised decision making. Four months looking to be wiped away in a single day, in a single flight. Ambitious? Yes. Aim for the stars if you hope to land on the moon, so …
A stranger musing in a strange land.
Daybreak finds the city muted in a blanket of fog. Only the periodic roar of a departing jet betrays the proximity of urbania and in betwixt I could easily forget I am in one of the planet's most heavily populated centers. Today heralds the only question mark portion of my journey, transitioning to Valle. Using …
The beautiful oddity of the cherry blossom friendship.
Humans are a curious species. When living out their day to day repetitive existence,they become rather attached to their place in relation to others. The desire to maintain the Jung-esque persona that they have built to show those in familiar circles can be rather inhibiting and prevent them from, for lack of a better phrase, …
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Paragliding in Valle de Bravo: Make This One Count.
"You have a lot of scars on your head" quips the hairdresser amongst the continuous stream of snips cast by her scissors. "Scars would imply stories and while I have many a tale, scars those are not." Nary a tale of the past do those small bald spots tell, but a warning of what may …
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New Comp in Valle de Bravo!
The gent I was under the guidance of during this past Christmas, Marko Hrgetic, is organizing a comp of a slightly different flare for January of 2018. Titled XCSkyRace - the format is different from the traditional RtG (Race to Goal). A start/end cylinder is defined each day and using that start/end cylinder, competitors are …
A ‘Crow’ leaves the nest.
Sent during my last day with Loud Crow Interactive back in 2014. Sitting at a career crossroads with untold opportunity awaiting. ‘Last Day’ approaches. In the past I would send out a simple email thanking everyone for a wonderful opportunity to learn, create, and grow. Those were days when I counted myself amongst the junior engineers. …
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