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"Who has
been in the sky,
will always walk looking at it, wishing to go back"
Leonardo DaVinci
Well...these aren't the
exact words but
it was something like that :), the thing is that you've just discovered
my Paragliding page :).
If you don't know what a
paraglider is, well,
first, let me tell you that the feeling has nothing to do with jumping
off a plane with a parachute (no adrenaline burst), it's more like
floating
(like in a dream), or if you prefer it resembles hanggliding but at
slower
speeds (no flames about who's better between paragragliders and
hanggliders
please, after all we share the same dream of flying with our own wings
:), now as they said a picture is worth a thousand words:
Yep, that's me in my old trusty very old glider over Sopelana beach
near Bilbao in Spain ( 1998 ). (don't worry i finally got a new one :-)
Yep, this is also me but this time in my new performance glider a
Galaxy
Scorpion III, landing at the Arbas site in the French Pyrenees ( 2000 ).
 
Me flying at Luzece ( Near Cahors ) in France. ( 2000 )
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 Tribes
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You know, everywhere i have been flying i get
the feeling that
paraglider pilots are just a one big family, especially in the clubs i
made part of.
These are the paragliding clubs which i had or have
the pleasure of
being part of:
 Parapente
Club Santafe de Bogota (Bogota - Colombia),
My home club at Colombia, great people and a lot of good friends, if
you
go there to fly contact them or me
and i'll give you all the contacts out there.
 Toiles
du Sud (Toulouse - France) , My
actual
club in France, it's composed by great people and very good friends
(they
are like a big family :-),
if you come flying in France near the Pyrenees contact them, (well it's
not the official logo but i like this modification (my own) better
since
is more modern looking ;-)
YCC (Caracas - Venezuela), well
i wasn't really part of them but i flied with them the semester i lived
in Venezuela and they are very nice people.
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This section is dedicated to documents and
writings related
to paragliding, like rulings,
stories, techniques, etc., if you like to contribute, send me an e-mail.
For the time being it is still empty but don't get
desperate i'm working
on something to start publishing in this section.
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Flying
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Coming soon!!
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Web
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In this section i provide only a simple set of
useful links,
if you want a more extensive list you can see the Flight
and Glide Links! section in my links
page
Big paragliding links centers, from these sites you
can get to almost
any PG. related web site in the world:
Federations:
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Some pictures of different places where i had
flyed..
Me aproaching the landing zone of the Arbas site (Pyrenees-France)
2000
Takeoff of the PWC at Pihedrahita (Spain) August 1999
Takeoff of the PWC at Pihedrahita (Spain) August 1999
Fred taking off from the Sopelana site (Bilbao-Spain) 1998
Vincent over the lake of Annecy (Alpes-France) 1998
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