Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEpisode 153- Burkhard Martens and Thermal Flying
Burkhard Martens is one of the most-recognized names in the sport. His seminal work, "Thermal Flying", first published in 2005 is the world’s best-selling guide to the art of thermalling and XC flyin…
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
Episode 152- Torsten Siegel and Playing the Ultimate Game
Veteran Gin test pilot, designer, European champion, and multiple-time German team member Torsten Siegel has been racing paragliders for nearly 30 years. He designed for UP Paragliders and then Swing…
Published on 4 years, 3 months ago
Episode 151- Comps, instructing, learning, and sending with Wally Arcidiacono
I met Wally Arcidiacono on the comp circuit quite a few years back and have been trying to connect with him for awhile now for a show. Wally is a keen comp pilot, started a paragliding school in Brig…
Published on 4 years, 3 months ago
Episode 150- Critical Care for going Deep with Justin Grisham
Justin Grisham is an emergency medical physician, wilderness medical expert, and search and rescue volunteer who wants to get our flying community better prepared for dealing with emergencies in the …
Published on 4 years, 4 months ago
Episode 149- Dilan Benedeti and learning to deal with gravity
My training took place during one of his SIV clinics with a bunch of very new students so I got to watch his team and his methods in action and came away super, duper impressed. In this episode Dilan…
Published on 4 years, 4 months ago
Episode 148: Red Bull X-Alps 2021, Gavin answers your questions!
This year's Red Bull X-Alps, if you could put it in a word- scary. We didn't have a single "standard" day of flying with light wind, nice cumulus, and good base, unless you count the Prologue! We had…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
Episode 147- Special Red Bull X-Alps Podcast with the Salewa athletes
I sat down for a special edition of the Cloudbase Mayhem directly after the Red Bull X-Alps Prologue yesterday with my Salewa teammates Paul Guschlbauer, Aaron Durogati, Markus Anders, Chrigel Maurer…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Episode 146- Maxime Pinot and turning up the Volume
In this episode we discuss how Maxime approaches training (physical and mental), his thoughts on just making better decisions instead of doing SIV for pilots who don't have the money or time, how to …
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Episode 145- Standing on the shoulders of giants with Mitchell McAleer
Mitchell McAleer properly crashed a hang glider on literally his first flight in the early 70’s. But he shook it off and was in the right place at the right time and had the right mentors and right a…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Episode 144- Jeff Longcor and (mostly) Inexpensive Mistakes
Jeff Longcor has been flying only a few years and has a full time job, which makes getting hours tough, but he's completely enamored with the sport and has been chasing it hard, sometimes too hard. J…
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago