Official practice day. 80 k race up and down the valley.

Rego And practise day.

Paragliding Worlds 2017 Monte Avena

Friday before!

Practice day, all the team in the air, epic 500m above the clouds day. I did a trip down the ridge to play with some transitions over the gorges, then landed at the team house.

Thats some good height

Glide out from above cloud (base)

Down the courseline

Goal for the day - Team Australia House

Getting closer to the Paragliding World Championships 2017!

The competitions are run, the team selection ladder is populated and preparations are under way to send the Australian Team to Feltre, Italy for the Paragliding World Championships.

This year the Australian is ranked highly as a country and the pilots are in with a real chance to do well.

The provisional team (depending on numbers that are selected) is:

Gareth Carter
Kari Roberson
Peter Slade
Felipe Rezende
Steve Nagle
Alex Yaschenko

Keep in touch with information here and on our facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/Australian-Paragliding-Team-260715001029592

And help the team reach Italy by donating on our gofundme page!

https://www.gofundme.com/australian-paragliding-team-2017?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=email&utm_content=campaign_title&utm_campaign=donation_receiptv5

Thanks

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Its a long way out - but preparations are under way for 2017

Full organisation of the Australian Squad with coaching and PR happening:

In the end, due to time and cost factors, we couldn't get the team to Colombia 2015, so in order to get some stoke going, we're getting excited:

http://aupgsquad.blogspot.com.au/p/home.html