
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 comprehensiv...
18 Marras 20201h 2min

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 has...
5 Marras 20201h 14min

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 emot...
23 Loka 202052min

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 ...
9 Loka 20201h 56min

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 the...
25 Syys 20201h 30min

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 ...
10 Syys 20202h 12min

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 cau...
29 Elo 20201h 31min

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 r...
17 Elo 202056min





















