World's Shortest Paragliding Flight 🪂

This is the reality of being a beginner with lots of enthusiasm! Get ready to laugh out loud as you witness my embarrassing paragliding fail! 😂 As a beginner, I attempted ridge soaring in Prince Edward Island with my wife and mother-in-law watching. What could go wrong? I take off nicely but completely miss the lift band and make the world's shortest paragliding flight, landing in time to catch ocean gusts helping my wing jump around wildly on the beach 🪂🏖️😳 Sometimes you just gotta laugh 🤣
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[@francisexbrayat1458]

I don't know the place, but if you want to ridge soar, you need a steady strong enough breeze and you have to stay closer to the ridge.
Once on the ground with wind, I find it often easier to control the wing with the rear riser rather than the brakes. But really you did nothing wrong here: safe take-off and safe landing is what matters!

[@ParaglidePOV]

thank you for commenting Francis 👍. It was not an ideal day for sure, but I really wanted to give it a shot and I was on vacation so had few opportunities in the area. Also, I was about a 10 hr pilot at the time, so I was very new. Every flight is a great learning opportunity and you can’t learn if you don’t try.👊

[@anthonyduffy6953]

Did better than i would have done to be fair

[@ParaglidePOV]

thanks for commenting Anthony. It’s good to laugh and know that being a beginner can be so awkward - but its where we start 😀