Théo de Blic's Tutorial - Basic Ground Handling : Cobra Launch/Throw&Go/Kiting... - Paragliding

Théo de Blic's tutorials is a free web serie where I give a few usefull tips on various aspect of paragliding. The tips I give are coming from an already long career as a professional pilot in acro paragliding.

In today's episode I will talk about basic ground handling technics and exercises. Ground handling is one of the most important aspect of paragliding and it's of the utmost importance to train it and to master it in order to fly safe. Unfortunately it's rarely done and many pilots lack a lot of ground control. Most of time because they feel it un uninteresting to ground handle. In this tutorial I am trying to give you a fun way to train ground handling through fun exercises that will both increase your ground handling skills and your general ground control.
Of course it is hard to give all the advices I'd like to give in such a small format. I would have liked to talked further about killing the wing, how not to get dragged etc but this will be for another video.
Due to some technical issue my sound recording system failed, therefore sometimes there are some wind noises and voice over. I apologize in advance for that!

Pilot : Théo de BLIC
Wing : Mentor7-LIGHT S
Camera : BimagineFilms - Augustin Binet

00:05 Intro
00:59 Basic notions
03:50 Cobra Launch
05:29 Sideway kiting
07:03 Precision kiting
09:14 Kiting
12:06 Moving along with inflations
14:20 Step and go
15:43 Throw and go
18:05 Conclusion