Very cool ridge soaring video. I still think them guys that do this are nuts!

https://vimeo.com/groups/kitefreaks/videos/119614776

Super impressive control and skill. Crazy mad to just hang out over those trees for minutes. Props to Pascal.

Love it! Control is right.

What goes up...stays up...for as long as he wants- or for quite a while, anyway.

Would love to float over the terrain.

This is kite jumping to the 'Nth level'... and that level is Gliding.
:wee:

We have to get Feyd to do this with his Chronos

The only thing that beats paragliding or skiing is paragliding AND skiing. That must feel amazing, certainly looks it. Great looking kite too.

Is it modded to allow him to soar facing forward?

If you look in the video when he looks up at the kite once. The kite is flying forward with the lines crossed. He just spun the bar around once he got in the air and kept his skis behind him to keep his body facing in the right direction.

:puzzled:

So, he's using his skis like a wind sock to keep his body facing into the wind?

https://vimeo.com/100782349

Here's another gliding video where he glides front first and he just faces forward and has the bar turned opposite where the Red side of bar is on the right side instead of left.

Good eye ssayre. Still not quite sure how he is able to keep facing forward, when the half twist in his break lines are trying to spin his body back to the "normal" orientation, with back facing the wind...

Flying isn't hard but you need a spot that provides good launch and landing areas

Morningsides in Charlestown NH is one of the best spots with the least amount of hiking

As there are great spots on the presidential ridges of the white mountains , it is not terrain to be experimenting in

http://youtu.be/JdXoQmMHHPE

http://youtu.be/KDRntxJg7V8

The Chrono is def great for flying, but you certainly need to be, arguably, a pilot first, understand the forward and reverse launch and be able to
Land clean

By the way, there are NO mods to fly forward it is the same characteristics of paragliding

The trick is knowing how and when to spin the body around the bar, or the bar around the body and to control your ground speed pre flight …as that speed impacts the height and stability you have when in the air

Otherwise? Pull left go left, pull right go right, everything is subtle...... as a harsh "pull" on the steering lines will kite loop you making the forward glide a reverse glide

Here's another one that shows what he's doing with the bar clearly. When he is flying backwards, the bar is in normal position. Flying forward, the bar is flipped around. Pascal's video looked like he was flying forward with the bar in the normal position :puzzled: