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Back to SearchEpisode 133- Malin Lobb and Wing Control
Malin Lobb is the co-owner of Flyeo paragliding in Annecy with Fabien Blanco. He was one of the founders of the British Racing Academy, is a keen world cup comp pilot and an experienced SIV and parag…
Published on 5 years ago
Episode 132- Bastienne Wentzel and the Beginner’s Guide to Paragliding
Bastienne Wentzel is a professional science writer, editor of Lift magazine and assistant pilot instructor based in the Netherlands. A few years ago she became frustrated with the lack of comprehensi…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
Episode 131- Ferdinand Van Shelven takes on his 5th X-Alps
Ferdinand (aka "Ferdy") Van Shelven, "The Flying Dutchman" is returning for his 5th Red Bull X-Alps this June. Ferdy has been in the top 7 in all of his previous 4 campaigns from 2011 to 2017. How ha…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
Episode 130- Instruments and chasing beauty with Koni Schafroth
Koni Schafroth has been flying over 30 years, but you're not going to find him chasing distance and trying to win XContest. Koni pursues free flight for the beauty and tapping into the incredible emo…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
Episode 129- Piedrahita, Wild Stories, Accident hindsights and more with Steve Ham
Steve Ham's fascination with flying began with hang gliders in 1981, which subsequently ended any attempt at a serious career path. In 1991 Steve discovered Piedrahita in Spain and began a crusade to…
Published on 5 years, 2 months ago
Episode 128- Ari in the Air and the philosophy of flight
In this entertaining and thought-provoking podcast with Ari Delashmutt, a big mountain skier, world-record highliner, paraglider, film maker, and pursuer of the absurd we take on what is sometimes th…
Published on 5 years, 2 months ago
Episode 127- Hypoxia, Cold, Accident and Reserve Studies and more with Dr. Matt Wilkes
ER and Critical Care physician and paragliding hound Matt Wilkes returns to the Mayhem to share the takeaways from several large studies he's been involved with since his last talk three years ago on…
Published on 5 years, 3 months ago
Episode 126- An oldie but goodie with the legend Pal Takats
This week we're doing our first "rerun" as Gavin is in the field deep in remote Nevada on a major SAR effort to find our good friend James "Kiwi" Johnson, who was recently on the show. We will get ca…
Published on 5 years, 3 months ago
Episode 125- Breaking the Asian Record with Soheil Barikani
On the 2nd of August the summer of records continued when Iranian world cup pilot and instructor Soheil Barikani flew his Gin Boom 11 nearly across the width of Iran 430km, a new Asian free distance …
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago
Episode 124- Owen Morse, professional juggling (and joggling!), and a new HG World Record
On June 19th of this year Wills Wing pilot Owen Morse ticked off something he'd been chasing for six years- a new out and back world record. Owen flew an incredible boomer from Walt's Point in the Ow…
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago