Peace - the brief respite between periods of conflict. Status Quo - the extended respite between bursts of change. As of late, I have been challenging a few of my directs to pull out their crystal ball and peer into what the future may hold for our industry. And with potential premonition in hand - …
Continue reading Change and The First Rule of Italian Driving …
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 …
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 …
Continue reading Trial Flight: Paragliding Coaching in Valle de Bravo
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
Continue reading The beautiful oddity of the cherry blossom friendship.
