The view from the Top

I never really thought i'll do my first flight on a paraglide here in Paros.

Veso, who decided to come and hang out with us here at Paros to kite for a few days brought his tandem wing, me, grant and william went for a spin.

And...

I LOVED IT!

now am in really big trouble, as usual i will get hooked on this sport and probably go mental again on doing crazy turns or what not.

Veso is a professional acro paraglider from Bulgaria who also started kiting a few months back. 

check out his adventures at 

www.flytheearth.com

He took time off to chill here and now on the way to prepare for an acro tour/competition around europe.

Goodluck!

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I was super stoked when he was keen to take me up paragliding.

i even tried to pilot it and to my surprise it was easier and lighter than kiting.

PS: sometimes being small is cool, according to the pilot behind me it was easy to bring me up because i was tiny. Although this strap infront me is actually really in the way of my face all the time because am too small on the seat. it's really cramping my view. LOL

We also did a few simple "tricks" (check out some photos)  and you'll see the paraglide almost being sideways.

If you know me very well too, you know that i love themeparks, rides and roller coasters, especially if it involves free fall.

so yes, i did love this experience, its like being on a roller coaster with a better view.

I wanted to experience more turns but i didn't expect to go fly before my friend Grant, i decided to eat some cookies on the way, when we were climbing the top of the mountain.

Ha, that was a bad idea. 

i didn't wanna vomit in mid air. lol.

I had the most adrenaline i've ever had in awhile, which was good.

i was smiling the entire day & night even after 2 days.

The experience was amazing.

So calm and at the same time extreme (if you think about it).

It is also such a nice view up there. 

I would like to see the earth on that view more often.

it also gave me a lot of inspiration to do some art, 

so am back on the drawing board for some rad artwork coming out

from this wonderful experience.

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The only thing that i probably would not like about it in the long run is climbing the mountain but

as long as i have my camera, am good to go!

i took a few snaps on the way.

The more you fly the more it grounds you to the earth.

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Thank You for the wonderful experience! 

Ahhh! can't wait til my next flight.

Windless Day, ha! we have our ways

Everyone is useless on windless hot summer day.

a time to drink Tanduay for all the good times and bad....

watch the breathtaking amber skies with friends....

bring on those weird toys! lets go out and play

Thinking now, it's not that bad after all



Oh how i love the hot summer days <3>

Vamonos! Vamonos!

A Breather from all the parties, the mayhem, the events that took place over the last month. Me, Carla and Elena went to Palawan for a Photography, Diving, Relaxing and supposedly kiting safari.
















Carla has been around the world taking photos for a living, am glad i met her as i am in dire need of an underwater and landscape photographer, and she did an excellent job indeed, Elena was our model so our trip involved a lot of giggling, pigging out and just plain fun! yippeeee! *Photos are for HUMA ISLAND RESORT that's gonna open soon in Palawan. so watch out!!

check out carla del moral's portfolio here :)


Carla also taught me some cool stuff about kiting, especially techniques on kiting and now she's on a mission to take me diving....again

Though i've tried a couple of times before i really thought diving isn't for me plus all the expenses that this leisure requires... but what the heck! and i did enjoy it a lot.

it sucks going to Palawan and not to dive at all, yah sure island hopping blah blah, but Palawan is a diving mecca and the place has a LOT, 12 in total, Japanese wrecks from world war 2. how cool is that?!

so I did two dives reef + wreck, and the spanyolas did three, i am not yet ready and capable of doing a 40m deep wreck dive for now but i will be back for sure.
i will be concentrating on my diving license with Dane when the wind is gone so i can come back and conquer the 40m deep Olympia Maru Wreck...excited*


Just look at that strong wind, am surely overpowered on my 6m on this wind and going for SUPER big air, i don't know what happened the night before our flight but we went partying at B-side and forgot about bringing our kites...uhhhh ohhhh, and we almost missed our flights too..as you can see in our airport shot (me and elena are in the best state of our lives) it really sucked, feeling the wind that strong and we had no gear...huhuhuhu



o well we had so much fun anyways :)



VAMONOS!!!!

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i found these photos deep in the heart of my harddrive. funny how time goes by so fast. i remember looking out my window every morning to see if the tide was perfect for a great skim sesh. Here are some pics from that stoked past :)