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Second day trying to become more like Kelly Slater 😁 Loooong way to go...
📷 @arte.yoga_flurina
#wannabeasurferdude #playaavellanas #costarica

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Northeast Brazil, one of the best place for cross country 🌤 💙 🇧🇷

#cloudhopper #cloudbase #cloudstreet #cumulus #brazil #sertao #freeflight #voolivre #parapente #paraglidinglove #paraglidinglife #purepassionforflying #airdesigngliders #alpsfreeride #addictionhappiness

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Some speedriding action for another great alpine lunch break 🤩🤩🤩 #lunchtime #lunchbreak #workingfromhome #socialdistancing #riederalp #alpsfreeride #teamalpsfreeride #aletscharena #myaletschmoment #atomicski #flyneo #speedriding

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Some pics of the people I met after landing in the deep Sertão.

Such nice people. Human with great generosity. To drink, to eat, a chair, a hammock, a bathroom, a house they offered.

They have always helped me. I sometimes spent just 5 minutes with them, but sometimes I was able to discuss several hours with these Brazilians while waiting for the recovery in the car. The moments spent with these people were always rich in emotions. I laughed a lot and sometimes I felt like crying of happiness because the moments were so intense.

I was marked by the simplicity with which they live. All they need is a small home, food, family and friends to be happy. Everything else is superficial. We live on the same planet but our world is completely different.

What do we really need to be happy? I often forget to go back to basics, swept away by what our society sells to us. Meeting these people and seeing them happy with "nothing" made me realize that I live with far too much unnecessary material things. I hope one day to succeed in living with their simplicity...

#sertao #nordeste #nordestebrasileiro #voolivre #love #backtothebasics #hapiness #humanity #positivevibes #sharethelove #brasil #wildlife #simplelife #humanresources #shareasmile #brazilian

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Memories of a day at the beach on the brazilian coast 🪂🚗🔝

📸@habnerweiner

@falesias_pousada @paraglidinggirls

#groundhandling #advanceparagliders #pi2 #havingfun #parapente #voolivre #paraglidinggirls #flylikeagirl #sunset #beach #brazil #pontadomel

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$Some videos of windy take-offs in Brazil: Caico (winch) - Assu (winch) - Quixadá - Madalena I arrived in Brazil with fear. I was scared about the winch take-off and the strong wind. Hopefully, when I arrived in Caico in October, there was almost no wind the first days. I had simple take-offs and was able to get used to the winch. After about twenty winches the fear decreased and I started to observe the elements around me (vario, clouds, birds) during the ascent in the winch. Cobra take-off really helps to start more easily with strong wind. Winch launched, I think I never had more than 35km/h on the ground. Then I went to Quixadá in December. The launch is on a little hill with 300m of height difference. The wind there can be really strong. Some days, gust up to 57km/h. I was very scared on my first take-offs there because I don't like windy conditions with relief... The first days there were some local pilots helping me waiting the right moment to take off. But then, I was alone with my driver and my anemometer. I took off about twenty times there and I became more and more confident. And that was a problem... I was used taking off with strong wind. I had an accident on my last take-off there. My anemometer showed me up to 51km/h of wind. I had to wait a good wind window without thermal. I didn't was patient and haven't observed enough the conditions this day. When I took off, I flew backwards pushing full speedbar. I was just 15 meters high and had a collapse and crashed behind the launch. The shock was violent. After half hour lying on the ground, I was able to get up and walk. No fractures, just a muscle injury. I was incredibly lucky. That day, my overconfidence quickly put me back in place... Taking off from Quixadá is easy when the wind is light, but you have to be extremely careful when the wind is blowing hard. There have already been many accidents there and this is one the reasons why winch take-off has developed in the Sertão. @flywithandy_paragliding @paraglidinggirls @airdesignparagliders @freeflight.tv @quixadaaventura #takeoff #brazil #sertao #caico #assu #quixada #winch #voolivre #decolagem #parapente$

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