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 …
