Speed Flying is a new winter sport created by paraglider pilots and skydivers looking for a new sensation and to create a link between gliding by ski and gliding through the air. For a few years, pioneers have used skydiving parachutes or modified kites. Now there are a specially designed SpeedFlying wings and gliders.
Linking the flight of a glider with the turn of your skis adds a whole new dimension to the descent from a mountain.
It’s an exhilarating sport which will excite and fascinate both participants and spectators. This new sport has taken the slopes by storm, quickly attracting more and more enthusiasts as the buzz of excitement sweeps across Europe! First in France, where Speed Flying was born, but now also in Switzerland and Austria with Italy and Germany not far behind. As it's an extreme sport in the same league as Skydiving and BASE jumping etc. it is also very dangerous with a high risk of injury or even death. Wings can reach speeds in excess of 100km/h in the hands of the top Speed Flyers but normally are flown between 35 & 70 km/h and unlike Paragliding you don't have a reserve/safety parachute if anything goes wrong. Two similar sports have been around for longer created by skydivers called Blade Running, this is where the rider exits a plane then flys their open parachute down a marked course of Blade shaped flags and Swooping where the pilot again exits a plane and scores points for tricks and style marks for their controlled swoop landing which is often over water or grass. Speed Flying is NEW... Its not Paragliding, Skydiving or Swooping

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