Intermediate and Advanced Coaching
"Learn from the mistakes of others — it’s the best way to avoid having to make them yourself"
Sustainable progression within the sport of Speedflying relies on external feedback, and drawing on more seasoned pilot's experiences and mistakes.
As pilots advance within the sport, we offer (and highly recommend) ongoing coaching to facilitate downsizing wings, flying more aggressively, and engaging with more challenging terrain.
Are you curious, but not sure if you've got anything more to learn?
We're happy to offer a money-back guarantee on a 1/2 day of advanced coaching. After 10-years of immersion in the sport, we are confident in effectively empowering even the most experienced pilots to step up their game.
Barrel Rolls
Our most common request from intermediate pilots, is for instruction learning to do Barrel Rolls.
We find this nomenclature counterproductive, and prefer to think of “Barrel Rolls” in terms of “differing degrees of rotation on a variety axes”. We offer the most comprehensive, safe, technical coaching on this topic available — and, as far as we know, are the only school in the country to formally instruct pilots on how to safely and sustainably conduct these maneuvers.
Inverting your wing is, definitively, the most dangerous single skill-set in the sport. Make the investment in learning to roll safely, and avoid building dangerous bad-habits as you integrate spirals and 360’s into your terrain flying.
5-Day Clinics
Paraglide-to-Speedfly “Cross-Over” Workshop
Appropriate for intermediate P2 pilots on up to P4 – this unique course fast-tracks your Speedfly-education by harnessing your existing paragliding skills to safely and rapidly transition onto Speedwings! This course will build upon your current knowledge-base to highlight the critical differences between Speedflying and Paragliding, and to safely retrain your knowledge-base and muscle-memory for the specific application of Speedflying Big Mountain lines!
3-Day Clinics
Advanced Speedflying Progression
This course is intended for pilots with intermediate to advanced Speedflying skills/experience, who want to begin safely learning next-level piloting techniques to expand their flying capacity. In this course we will be discussing Speed Soaring, Rear-Riser and B/C-connection piloting, Barrel Rolls and Spiral dives, sustainable Proximity Flying techniques, Toss-launches, advanced input combinations, utilizing recovery arc, and a host of other high-level topics. Should conditions permit, we may also work on high-wind traction kiting techniques.
Ongoing Day-Rate Training: $450
Single-day, one-on-one training sessions are *sometimes* available in-between scheduled clinics for new students who aren't sure they want to commit to a full 10-days, to help with targeted skill-building, or for students who simply want individual access and attention.
Or for students who can't make clinic dates work with their schedule.
We continue to find that virtually all students learn more, and more-quickly in our small-group clinic environment (never more than 5 students at a time!) - but if a single-day personal training session is what you are seeking, please feel free to inquire and we will contact you to discuss scheduling