Paragliding SKILLS: Master THERMAL FLYING in 3 minutes!

The secrets of effective THERMAL FLYING. Work on these 5 SKILLS and you’ll go far.
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00:00 How to fly far
0:43 Regulate Your Weightshift
01:02 Your Vario Beeps, Turn On Three
01:22 Control Your Airspeed
01:36 Keep Your Circle Steady
01:55 Shift Your Circle Position
Video © Greg Hamerton
Edited by Courtney Dawe
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[@davidalhoff7190]

Hey Greg, great video!!! As always. Maybe one should consider between flats and mountains. In the flats, the wind is your friend. In the mountains, when you get into a Lee at 15kmh for some, this might already be challenging. Especially if there are natural obstacles channelling the Wind.
I did my first 100k flight in the mountains with nearly 0 wind @ 3000m, but such days are rare.

[@adrianfigueres]

Hello! Is posible fly in the thermals in the sea? I said like creating thermals in the surface to the sea.

[@CuCarrot7686]

Great video. Thank you for sharing. Now I learnt

[@CyberEditing]

Was that location north of DuToits Kloof Pass on the way to Bains Kloof Pass? Hard to ID with the distortion of the Insta 360.

[@airgaborpara3824]

As learnt that flat turn is the effective one in the thermal and banking hardly is the bad.

[@LiiMuRi]

The hardest part is finding the lift in the first place :)

Paragliding Is easy, everybody can do it. When somebody always tell me where the next thermal is i can do 100km, even more. But here Is the magic, nobody tell it for sure, so after all I can do just around 60km return 😁

[@IanObzi]

When thermalling is it better to use rear riser steering (If you have them) or brakes?

[@PhilippeLarcher]

brakes (if you're on a 2 liner might be different but you would not ask here)

[@ottoovelha6438]

Turn on 3 means turning after 3 seconds?

[@rec6n]

If your vario start beeping you fly 3 secs straight and after you start your circle for thermalling

[@FlyWithGreg]

after 2 seconds.

[@PhilippeLarcher]

I guess that might be different given the context (england vs south africa or the alps)

[@turkeyphant]

Much much easier to do 100 km in the mountains compared to the South Downs.

[@franklind8569]

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