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    Exactly a week ago today, I flew the best sky I have ever seen for an out/return in my little corner of the world.
    For a change I was on the hill early, looking at the scattered cu lining up nicely, and with little wind up high. But down below it was a different story, the [...]

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    Five months to get the best of our stay here in France. The very opportunity to have a family again, close friends. Life is a party in which we enjoy ourselves every minutes.
    But we have changed. And we see our native country with different eyes. We need to experience it with our new way of [...]

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    I just put together an edit from our trip to Pokhara, Nepal last fall. It was tons of fun catching up with old friends, making some new ones, and trying to get as much airtime as we could in the rainiest November in 50 years! Check it out.
    A Month in Nepal

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    Had an epic flight with Mattt yesterday in Chamonix on our matching Rush 3’s. What a fun and stable wing!

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    The last CX competition with the open class glider has been in the PWC Ager Spain, 5 task on the best part of the Pirineos.
    I will keep flying my Mantra 11 for my plesure because from my point of view is the best glider that i ever flow, on performance and safety.
    here you can see [...]

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    About a month ago, I started flying again as I got tired of being so fragile with my body. I’ve flown about 5 times since then, but wasn’t super-comfortable doing much acro. While I did some right side helicos, they weren’t perfect and any little deflation or oscillation made my heart jump and I immediately [...]

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    I just received a new helmet and a pair of ski goggles from Swedish company POC Sports. The products were supplied by swiss distributor Airtool. Thanks a lot!
    POC Sports specializes in ski helmets and protective gear. In their own words they aim to “do everything we can to possibly save lives and to reduce consequences of [...]

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    If you’re watching the news about Pakistan right now you’re probably shaking your head thinking about what a terrible place it must be. For me too the news is quite upsetting, but possibly for different reasons.  It got me thinking, and I worry about all my friends there. Worry about what it’s like to try [...]

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    10 Years of Ozone and what a year for the test team!!
    Dav and Luc creamed the CFD (French XC league) taking the top 2 spots and helping the local club of Greolieres win the club competition. Dav and Luc completed their flights with various Mantra R protos including the the fabled bbHPP, their efforts in the [...]

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    Thanks to your efforts, thanks to your determination to see us go to Thailand, to bring you storys, photos and videos; we are now officially finalists!!!
    It has been a long process, with 200 concurrents at the beginning, we’re now only 5!!!
    Congrats, and thanks to all of you!!!
    As we had decided to visit Thailand this winter [...]

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    Our Website is pretty big, and with so much info it can be hard to navigate. At the  moment we are working on a new look and navigation system for the site, which won’t be live anytime soon but will be well worth the wait, we think. Hopefully we’ll all have to do a bit [...]

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    No in the season with no comps I am at home in Interlaken, earning some money working as a nurse at the local hospital. Taking care about some unlucky skiers…
    Whenever I have time I am plying with my newest toy, the OZONE ultralite 19m2. It means a lot to me with almost no weight on [...]

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    Salut tout le monde,
    Flypa flypa! un super évènenent sur l’ile de ténérife à l’Ouest des cotes africainesà ne pas manquer: soleil, démos d’acro, plage… que peut on ésperer de plus?
    Toute l’équipe Ozone réunie pour un seul et même évènement! de la bombe!!
    Hi all
    Tenerife’s event was a great moment with the Ozone’s staff…acro show, base, [...]

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