justACRO Team

Pál Takáts seeks new adventures! Together with 30 international pilots from all around the world, he is participating in the thoughest paragliding adventure race, the Red Bull X-Alps. The competition is going to start on 19th of July from the center of Salzburg and the athletes have to face more than 800 km's (straight line only!), and probably the most difficult and tactical route till Monaco in the history of the competition. This time, the pilots have to cross several big mountain ranges on their way, including a couple of high alpine passes. Pál is going to represent Hungary for the first time in this event together with his austrian supporter Mauritz Volkmer. His flying equipment will consist of a light U-Turn prototype, reversible backpack-harness from Sup'air (specially designed for the competition), a front container rescue parachute with cocpit, Aircotec XC-Trainer as flying instrument and a very light helmet.

However, the team is still looking for financial support and sponsors, since the the total budget of about 5000 euros is not yet covered and on the paraglider and the equipment there are still big surfaces available for sponsor logos. If you are interested to advertise on the sport's most attractive contest with the biggest, worldwide media coverage, please don't hesitate to CONTACT US!

Any euros can be very helpful, so if you are a justACRO.com fan please feel free to donate any amount by paypal to info@justacro.com.

Thank you very much in advance for any support!

Follow the race with news, athlete's diaries and LIVE tracking at the offical site at www.redbullxalps.com

During their training session between the acro competitions Gábor and Pícsör worked hard to film nice acro moves and to develop and test new, spectacular camera angles. They took it seriously and after the season they returned home with 20 casettes and worked through many long nights just to sort out all the shots. They already edited two clips to share some of the best shots and some secrets, with You!

Last sunday while training I suffered an accident in Stechlberg, Switzerland by ground-spiralling over high-grass. I went too low, my wingtip caught the flowers and pulled me down...I hit the ground first with my left foot which broke in the impact. A few hours later I passed through an operation to fix the bones in my ankle (with 3 screws) and the blood circulation in my feet, then I spent 4 more days in the hospital.
Fortunately up to now I almost didn't have any pain, however it is much harder to deal with the exasperation and disappointment I feel now, but I try to get read of it quickly and focus only on a fast recovery and return to the sport as soon as possible.

Thanks for the selfness support of my girlfriend, family, friends and last but not least our sponsors, to help my way back.

Finally, after 2 days of travelling yesterday we returned to Hungary from our 2.5 months journey in Brasil. However we couldn't train as much acro as we wanted to (to tell the truth we didn't even spend lot of time at sites which are suitable for that) but instead we had a lot of fun playing on coastal sites, getting brown on the beach, tasting great foods, completely unknown fruits, meet with many many new friends, e aprendemos portugues!

Florianópolis

Check out our first movie from Brasil, showing amazing coastal flights on the Island of Flóripa.

Watch the video: