While in Texas chasing records, Othar and I took some time to do some tandem paramotor flights with an all-star cast of Texas Red Bull team. The video speaks for itself - they had a blast! The awesome thing about these flights is that we can offer them to friends of Red Bull, VIP’s etc. [...]
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Texas Paramotor Tandems
New Paragliding record set in Texas
Click here to read the Red Bull .com article of Chris Santa’s 121mi flight.
Paragliding in Texas
Santa and I are in Texas trying to set a new record for paramotor distance with limited fuel, 2.5 gallons. Yesterday we did a photo flight and played with some clouds, it was really fun. It was my birthday so it was one heck of a birthday present to have such a beautiful flight!
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Canadian Paragliding National Championships
Here’s a little video Ole Haddeland made from the Canadian Paragliding National Championships. I ended up third after missing the final two days of flying because I left early to prepare for another project. Congrats to Will Gadd, fellow Red Bull athlete, for taking the Canadian Champ title again.
Yes, I put my glider on the [...]
Canada!
I’ve been in Golden, BC, Canada this week participating in the Canadian paragliding national championships. I flew three tasks, I won two of them and got second in the other. That put my name at the top of the leader board. Unfortunately I couldn’t stay for the whole week so if they fly more I’ll [...]
Heading to Red Bull summer camp!!!
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!!! I’m packing my bags to go to Red Bull Summer Camp in Minnesota tomorrow. The camp is at Levi Levalle’s house, he’s a bad ass snowmobiler that Red Bull sponsors. The campers are all Red Bull athletes form various different sports, including, wake boarding, snowmobiling, surfing, skiing, motor biking, [...]
US Paragliding National Championships - Chelan, WA
I’m working on a project later this summer that is going to require that I have my cross country paragliding game together so I decided there is no better place to brush up on those skills than a cross country paragliding competition. Well, it’s been about ten years since I last competed in a cross [...]
We killed it in Oshkosh today.
Santa, Miles, and I did 21 paraglider tow-ups in 3.5hrs. Miles did 2 solo fights and a BASE huck. Our bud, and favorite Red Bull Air Force cheerleader, Luke Siele made a couple solo flights, I made a solo flight and took 16 Red Bull account owners for tandem flights. Pics and vid coming soon. [...]