Just that bird like feeling there's nothing around you, it's you and your wing.
And there's no problems, there's no interaction, there's only you in that time. And that just
makes it absolutely special and even more, because umm... I don't know I'm not a poet.
There's no other form of flying, which is
as close to flying like bird as hang gliding. We harness the thermals the same way as the
birds, you can fly hours... the entire steering is done by weight shift. So it's all
you and your body. And it's just the purest form of flight. Some days I fly over more
mountain peaks, than some mountaineers will climb an entire lifetime, you know, and
I can do that in one day. And I can fly over the most remote and extreme places. And just
be in places where nobody else can be in this situation. No engine, only a glider and the wind.
I did my first 10 in flight when I was 10 years old with my dad, that was my requirement
for my mom, we have to be 10 years old before we can go flying with my dad. I wanted to
go flying when I was five years old and probably even younger. I mean just an incredible feeling.
You just take a couple steps and you're free and fly like a bird and sharing these memories
with my dad made it even special. And we were just at our home site like 10 minutes from
15 minutes drive from where I grew up. So yeah, I've been up there my entire life
on that mountain and then 10 years old, you run off and you fly and after that it was
pretty hard for my dad to go flying by himself because we always wanted to go fly with him obviously.
As soon as we knew traveling was not a thing
anymore, for the year that just shut it down completely. Hang gliding is not a very
lucrative sport to be a professional hang glider pilot that just, you know disappeared
in a heartbeat basically.
I ended up going into the US buying a van and then I spent like two weeks building out the van and cooked food for myself I barely went out
for meals and I just made it as cheap as possible because I ran out of money. For me it's just
a great way to spend time in nature and get away from people especially in times like
like these with the Coronavirus and social distancing. It was very easy to just get away
from people and spend time in nature and actually especially with hang gliding I go to these
flying sites which mostly remote and away from the cities and I could just wake up in
the morning and look out the window and if it's flyable I take my hang glider and go flying.
I felt really bad to go out and having fun and posting Instagram Stories of me flying every day and doing rad stuff and just
enjoying life and and then I started getting these messages from people who were
like actually enjoying watching that because they were stuck at home.
I want to take people along on my on my journey through the sky and my adventures and show them our beautiful
sport and take them out of their living rooms and offices and take them along flying
and even if it's just for a minute or two when they've watched my videos and maybe some
people actually gonna start hang gliding out of this.
It just showed me I don't need much to be happy. Like if I can go flying and if I have some food on my table. I'm basically
happy that's all I need and I can live in a van in a Walmart parking lot and go flying
every day and sometimes you just gotta turn things down and start living life
a little cheaper and a little more basic and just enjoy it and not chase the rat race
of what everybody else does.