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This year PARAnoia ACRObatixx will be an APWC Competition. The event will be held 16th till 19th July 2008 above the city of Zell am See in Austria.

It will be a competition in one category only - SOLO. The registration limit for solo pilots is 40. At the first day there will be the qualification run in the morning for all pilots who never flew before an APWC. The FAI runs are planned for Wednesday till Saturday. The Expression Session out of the Helicopter (limited Pilots) will be on Saturday in the late afternoon. After the heli drops ther will be the very well known "Zeller Seefest" with fireworks and good music.

The registration will be open from 1st May till 15th June 2008.

For further information and registration please visit www.acro.cc

Some information and new interesting concept of the upcoming Vertigo Swiss Riviera APWC event:

"The Vertigo Swiss Riviera will host the world cup, and also the 2nd Swiss Championships during 24th to 29th of June in Villeneuve, Switzerland.

This year, the focus is on synchro! There is a registration limit of 20 teams and 20 slots for solo as well. For the hanggliders, 15 slots have been opened.

The runs will be completed by some of the Swiss pilots who will compete to obtain the title of Swiss Champion.

Four CM FAI runs are planned from Wednesday to Sunday, exception made of Saturday, during which a brand new concept of paragliding competition is planned: The Vertigo Open.

The Registration for the FAI event is between the 29th of March and the 5th of May!

The Vertigo Open is an aerobatic paragliding competition, with two categories: solo and synchro.

Two pilots will compete against each other, with direct dismissal. A new way of “live” scoring will inform the pilot and the public of the result of each run, with a delay of one or two minutes.

The jury is composed of FAI judges and of personalities selected by the management of the Vertigo Swiss Riviera.

See you soon!
Team Vertigo Swiss Riviera"
www.acrovertigo.ch

7 teams, 5 sports and 5 days to make a movie! That's the challenge of the Nissan Outdoor Games by Columbia which's first winter edition was held from 10th to 17th of January in Chamonix, France (there were already 3 succesful summer editions in Interlaken, CH). Skiing, snowboarding, mountaineering, base jumping, paragliding, and speedriding – these were the sports that had to be included in a 5 minutes long movie and a slideshow with the best 20 pictures by the photographers of each team.

From 21st till 25th of January the World's best speedriders got together in St. Arlberg to
The athletes themselves will assess the runs of their competitors on the basis of objective video material according to the following criterias:

- Choice of line
- Skiing skills
- Flying skills
- Energy and smoothness of the run
- Creativity of the touch and goes

The top three had been chosen to compete in a superfinal after a qualification process held two days earlier which had seen 16 speedriders from six nations battle it out on Arlberg’s Mattun mountain. The pilots themselves had made the selection at a public judging event on Tuesday evening by means of a video analysis.

Live broadcasting of the BrasilAcro competition! The Master category with the best pilots has been already finished, but the Juniors are still racing in these moments! Price giving cenemory coming soon! Check it out!

http://www.vorttice.com/aovivo/parapente2007/

As the sun, the competition scene is also moving to the south hemisphere following the summer. The 3rd edition of the Acroandes contest was held in Salta, Argentina and has finished a few days ago.

The results:

1st - Félix Rodriguez (Spain)
2nd - Bernd Hornböck (Austria)
3rd - Marcell Schrittwieser (Austria)

4th - CAMILO MUÑIZ
5th - Federico rodriguez
6th - Xandi Mechu

The Aerobatics Paragliding World Cup represents the highest competition level in paragliding aerobatics and consists of 5-6 major events every year. The solo and the synchro category has two different rankings. In every run of a competition the pilots get points by their ranking position in the certain run (for example the winner of the run always gets 100 points, the 2nd a bit less, etc. The exact calculating formula can be found in the annexes of the FAI Sporting Code).

The last event of this year's Aerobatics Paragliding World Cup has ended in Italy at Lago di Garda!

Since the beginning of August the acro circuit is travelling all around the Alps, going from one competition to the other and hunting for good training conditions inbetween. In these weeks it is always very hard for me to keep updated the website (especially without a computer) so sorry for that, but I try to manage the delay. I am very happy to tell that Gabor is back again after his injury and despite he did his first acro flight on the training day of Vertigo we are competing together again!