Amateur paragliding accidents

[MsOtsu]

i love paragliding.after i watched this video, iam lil affraid for having a course of paragliding even i enjoy to watvh this video. thank you.

[carot2003]

Funny..

[Ralpad1]

better to take a coarse

[littleripper312]

omg I played the part where he crashes into the bench those people were sitting on a few times and I laughed so hard I cried

[tinorkertesz]

they were all in the same region ??

[adanosso1]

maravilha de manobras

[mortalkon]

a nice educational video for paragliders

[kalkokalko]

Some of them look scary, but you have to admit that 02:55 and 03:41 is just class

[c9ari]

That must have been like 20 years ago.

[redthailand123]

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[milolouis]

2:58 was my worst nightmare when learning.

[wotsganninon]

Paragliding must be trained...with qualified instructors. pay or face the price.

[lacifly1]

Foarte distractiv!

[KyriacosK]

0:55 the best!

[Pitti27mplatsch]

near the end the scenes are bad :-)

[joziguy]

These guys were like tree magnets! Anyone ONE of these guys heard about a stall?

[Thetabiz]

Terrible! The problem is with the amateur instructors, not the students. These instructors have no clue, and there is no shame in publishing this video with their failed results.

[seymourbutt312]

1:59 LMAO!

[filtonkingswood]

Jeez! I was considering taking up this sport! Think I will stick to racing motorcycles... way less danger!

[ugslug]

OK so excuse me for sounding completely retarded, but dont you guys have some sort of cut away mechanism? just for things such as getting dragged unexpectedly? Ive done some skydiving and im considering selling my rig n getting into paragliding (cheaper and more air time) so i know absolutely nothing about the gear

[Hickeydog2365]

I would think that having a cut away mechanism would be more bad than good. Once you hit the ground, there is no air movement for the wing to inflate, so it collapses.

[tglynx]

@ugslug hey. normally you dont have a cut away mechanism in paragliding as you have in skydiving. If something wiked happens you stall your glider after throwing the reserve in the air

[newton2013]

@tglynx Well, you Do have a hook-knife...

[tglynx]

@newton2013 no, what should this be good for? ;) the reserve is a round canopee in paragliding. some use a rogallo type rescue in combination with a cut away mechanism, but most use a round canopee and stall the main glider after throwing the reserve.

[tomamil]

i was watching this, because i just signed up for a beginner paragliding course. :) that's going to be fun :P

[thesynthmaster92]

the one with the cow^^ is very funny

[tjtg]

There are some deadset retards in these clips.

[Wonkymungbeansprout]

Ha!..... Now I know why I fly "modern" wings.

[XxBaRHoMxX]

1.5 he owned :P

[hulkyou1234]

Lol! So funny when he smacked the wall of a building. =D

[superjezz]

Needs a music clip. Im thinking the theme song from George of the jungle

[tomtabanken]

All this clips are from the "early days" when no one really knew how it worked out, it was more "try for yourself" nowadays the gliders are safer and in three diffrent classes, A,B,C and an unrated class called "competition" I´ve been into the sport for 7 years and have never had an accident.

[iceparaglider]

Some of them are flying in strange locations and conditions ... :)) And when they are airborne ... they freeze. I am flying in Romania, a DHV 2 glider, never seen something like that. Safe landings, tomtabanken.

[lajollajoe]

a bunch of homos

[favbeats]

no sound...gay

[ryanhercules]

to remind anyone who are interested on paragliding please dont play with the lever or else.. this will happen to you.... you need to learn how to pull the lever because each pull has its own control..if you let go of the lever 100% up you will fly up high and if you pull 90% percent on your left, right hand you will turn sidely.. then 50% will lower your speed down... then 10% is totally stop... sending you to the ground..

[wayne11122000]

What?

[manulemafatais]

Ryandiculous...

[surferjaws]

haha i feel bad for him tho!!!

[Frogprince777]

0.50-0.56 ROFL! suprising tree

[bucko1s]

the guy at 1:27 WAS CHUCK NORRIS!!! doing an awesome roundhouse kick

[royalassassin2010]

@bucko1s lame. -_-

[benfirst]

Oh so funny. I like the one where the fag pulls his reserve, but he's so low it doesn't do anything. The one after is really funny too as the guy gets dragged away and thrown into a tree! LOL!

[iftyshifty]

I am thinking of starting up paragliding. I am from yorkshire. any tips or suggestions would be appreciated to avoid me appearing in an accident video in the future.

[TinaGRR]

one and only important thing:choose a very very good and and experienced instructor/trainer...;-)))

[fessifessi]

you mean nowadays paragliding works better?

[TinaGRR]

lmao!!!so funny...but a long time ago...

[Kestrelfalke]

These canopies were more like skydiving prachutes than gliders. If these are beginners, you wouldn't have a problem finding crash footage -- the glide-ratio is low, they come in fast, and control is limited. The early hang gliders were lawn-darts too!

[itvreport]

Nech to nevidím, neuverím!

Až mám skoro chuť začať lietať (s kamerou medzi paraglaidistami)

[shoegooguru]

thanks for posting!...the gliders may be old...but the human bad judgement is still the same in 2008. Whether hang gliding or paragliding, people getting into STILL do not understand seriously enough controls/conditions and the circumstances of BEFORE they fly. MASTER A POWER KITE FIRST! GET ONE AND YOU WILL SOON AGREE WITH ME.

[shoegooguru]

I am absolutely convinced that anybody who plans on hanging their ass under a paraglider should master a power kite FIRST. Better to get surprised/challenged by wind-power; learn the feel of a canopy with your feet still on the ground...or getting drug around on...than falling out of the sky. Flying is not a joke.

[DIZZYskin]

We should be thanking these pioners for helping make the sport what it is today.

[Gonzgonz23]

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! ASSHOLES!!!! This Video is 100 years old! It has absolutely NOTHING to do with today paragliding. Maybe the Assholes are the same:-)

[shoegooguru]

GONZGONZ23 Are you sure one of these guys is not YOU!? You sound pretty arrogant and ignorant to me. Perfect combination for bad piloting.

[chunder123]

The only problem i see with this type of flying is the lack of control in unforseen weather conditions. Turbulence. Hand lauching is a big risk and you are probaly better lauching from a cliff. A weather radar might be an idea. If i had the choice id prefer powered flight for safety

[r6mace]

most of the guys on this video didn't look like they got hurt; in fact most of them looked surprisingly gentle. Except for the guys that got cought on wires, it didn't look bad at all.

[nudsh]

...what most everybody else says....and what I see is something called PANIC.. Almost every pilot in this vid panics and starts tugging risers like a rabbit fucking....no thought. Plus, I wouldn't fly my snowkites in some of those tight spots....

[mddreyfus]

Half of these aren't paragliders, unless they're 20 years old. Many of these pilots are suffering from "object fixation;" a tendency to steer directly towards an object that you're looking at and and want to avoid.

Also, it looks like many of them are flying in very strong conditions with poor skills. Paraglider flying does require licensing and careful judgment. I DON'T find this funny: pilots die like this all the time.

[Tindar]

MOST of them are paragliders! And yes some of them close to 20 years old.

[sampsonoff]

2:10 LMOF!!!!

[tortilla400]

that guy on 1:40 is in big trouble...

[onlygunter]

Fuck paragliding!

[parachiahuahua]

Thank god we don't fly those deathtraps anymore, things have progressed since then, don't be put off the sport by this video

[stinkbomb93]

shit... there needs to be some sort of licance befor leting idiots like this out their

[xVampire666Fairyx]

...and well...i can see what stupid mistakes they do...if they had some lessons of handling with the kites they hadn't so much problems...i agree : poor trees and poor kites...they're looking like idiots ='(

[xVampire666Fairyx]

i was in austria for paragliding...it's so amazing to fly high above the hills and so one...i want to learn more to fly like a professional...but i hope that that never hapen to me xDDD

[dirkdeu]

poooooooooor trees....

[MrBentor]

Many of those gliders appear to be first generation, maybe late 1980's

[KissingZ]

haha this is so stupid^^

[paramotor]

oh man i cant stand to see that ll but some of these guys would be good for the red bull peir jump

[F1R38RAND]

This is something my partner and i are looking into learning. I think....

[lemonmeringuepie]

It's amazing the amount of idiots who think "yeah , no problem - I can do that"

Get some lessons, join a club, don't be a div!

[paraglidetandem]

most of these videos are on older paragliders. If you take lessons and practice kiting a paraglider, you can reduce the chances that some of these crashes will happen.

[Crashman2]

Nice crashing!

[aibocyrus]

hilarious!!! i just started doing a little paragliding. i took one lesson and hope to get my self back into the air soon! this video helped show me what not to do while i was laughing my ass off!

[verkkomies]

Just keep in mind the most important rules: always land against the wind, never come too close to trees and wires, don't listen to fools. ;-)