World's first ever Tandem Infinity Tumbling - THE STORY

The idea of performing the Infinity Tumbling with a passenger has probably flashed through the mind of all the acro pilots who already mastered this ultimate figure. Just like me and Gábor who started to dream about this a few years ago...
It was obvious that there is a big safety issue and that the right material will take extreme importance to succeed. Our glider that time, the Morpheus was a true Infinity machine but even way too aggressive and violent, did not seemed to be the ideal wing for that. After a brainstorming session together with U-Turn's designer Ernst Strobl back at the end of 2007, the plans of the Thriller was borned. The first prototype already proved that as we expected this canopy with it's softer, easier handling and still great dynamics might be the right toy for this project.

World Premier of Infinity Tumbling in tandem paraglider (short clip)

The official presentation of the Infinity Tumbling - the world's most radical acro maneuver- flown in tandem, with a passenger. The paraglider was built by U-Turn and specially designed for this stunt.

World Premier of Infinity Tumbling in tandem paraglider (2010, long clip)

The official presentation of the Infinity Tumbling - the world's most radical acro maneuver- flown in tandem, with a passenger. The paraglider was built by U-Turn and specially designed for this stunt.

Infinity Tumbling with passenger

The Infinity Tumbling is the most radical and the most spectacular trick that exists in paragliding. The pilot passes over the center of the wing over and over again, doing perfect loopings while having to stand out high G-forces up till 6-7 G! It was invented in 2005 by Raul Rodriguez (the inventor of most acro figures) but still, nowadays there are still just a few dozens of pilots in the world who were able to master this maneuver perfectly. On the 7th of August 2010 in Switzerland an old dream came true when Pál and Gábor presented the first ever Tandem Infinity Tumbling, flying together on a unique glider designed by U-Turn. The news-cuts of the World Premier were distributed all over the world and brought all together 113 hours of broadcasting time in televisions.

Lately (in October 2010) Pál made the first ever commercial Infinity tandem flights, sharing this extraordinary experience with passengers, some with no flying experience at all. You can be the NEXT!

Pal wins the first World Cup of 2010 in Zell am See

Grillmayer Alexandra in female and Pál Takáts in the overall category have won Paranoia Acrobatixxx, the first of the - only - two World Cup events of the season, held in Zell am See, Austria for the fifth time! As usual the altitude in the flying box was pretty low, between 3-400 meters so the pilots were performing 3 maneuvers only. It means that everything has to run perfectly, otherwise even a small mistake makes out big differences in the scoring. Regarding the new rules now the landing takes 20% of the total scoring (it is the double than it used to be) and the ground spiral coefficient jumped up from 3 to 4 which makes the landings a lot more exciting since everybody is giving a try for the spiral-raft landings to get out maximal points.

Task 1
After the qualification he first task took place on thursday afternoon. In this task the pilots had to fly a restricted program.

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