Episode 160- Soaring Birds with Hannah Jane Williams
Hannah Jane Williams is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Konstanz, Germany. For eight years she's been studying soaring birds across the spectrum to figure o...
9 Dec 202154min
Episode 159- Visualize the day
This week we're doing something a little different. It has been proven that our minds don't know the difference between a real experience and visualizing an experience. Olympic athletes, race car driv...
2 Dec 202123min
Episode 158- Kirsty Cameron and Stacking the Odds
Kirsty Cameron has been a member of the British team many times. She's been flying high-end 2 line gliders for over 10 years and put a ton of energy and time into competition flying since she began fl...
25 Nov 20211h 19min
Episode 157- Jonny Durand: riding Tsunamis, chasing records, comps and learning
Jonny Durand is a long-time Red Bull sponsored hang gliding pilot who's been ranked #1 in the world multiple times. We've all seen the incredible footage of Jonny flying the "tsunami" morning glory ph...
16 Nov 20211h 45min
Episode 156- Eduardo Garza (Team Mex 1) and into the Crazy
Want to listen to some crazy stories? Eduardo Garza (Team Mex 1) competed in his second Red Bull X-Alps this year. Eduardo has also competed in two X-Pyr's, and he's done all of it while working full ...
8 Nov 20211h 18min
Episode 155- Back to the beginning with Bill Belcourt
I've had my friend and mentor Bill Belcourt on my mind a lot lately. He managed to handily win the US XContest this season with a series of impressive, committing, deep flights in the Intermountain we...
1 Nov 202145min
Episode 154- Going Big against the Odds with Thad Spencer
Thad hails from Minnesota, just sold a successful musical production company and is addicted to flying. The holy grail in the US has been the 200 mile mark, a distance very few pilots have pulled off ...
9 Okt 20212h 11min
Episode 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 flying...
24 Sep 202147min
