The emerald river Soca

I got a chance to be at home for a weekend and visit the OUTDOOR SHOW in Kobarid. The show growed in past year to a well known , good organisated weekend celebration of outdoor sports. There where competitons of kayaks, paragliders, balvan climbing, base jumpers and of course lots of party in the evening. This is a very well organisated event that brings together more and more people every year. Here you can watch some pictures from the event.












I had a chance to get some pictures of Soca river which is at that time coated in its most beautiful color. Let the pictures speak for itself :)

Flood is over (At least I hope)

After 3 weeks of bad weather and my neck problems the skies finnaly cleared and my neck was prepared by profesional therapist. I got a visit from Holland, Erik, Coun, Cornelia and Monique came already 1 week ago in to this flood but the sky cleared also for them. They went from Tolmin to Nova Gorica to fly here on Lijak as it is in this unstable conditions more secure then mountains in Tolmin. Seems like there is nice week in front of us. On the other hand I am reading reports from Tegelberg and feel realy sorry for all the pilots there. I am sure that organisers are doing their best to keep the pilots busy but weather is weather. Hope they get something till the end of the week.

Not that I would like to teas someone but here is a picture from today.



It was good to go down a bit faster today :)

Worlds at Tegelberg

It is already happening in Tegelberg Germany, world championship for women rigids and swifts. It is again very bad weather forecast for this week, I just wish they will be able to make it. Slovenia has a man in the front line at worlds, Primoz Gricar will fly with his Phantom and we look forward for a good result yet again.
Here are some links where you can read about what is going on at Tegelberg:

Jamie`s twitts (The most up to date info about it)

Official blog

Jamie`s blog
Corrina`s sky
Zhenya

Fingers crossed for you all :)

There is one thing more to show. Here is the video of my last flight with my ex Combat L.

Bassano 2010 the video

As I am grounded for already two weeks due to the pain in my neck I had time to edit the videos from Bassano. No aerial shots this year as we flew on the competition days so there was no space on the glider for extra drag like camera :)
A very traditional Bassano this year, 2 comp days, I look forward to next year in fear as I remember 2008 and coldness we had this year so early in April. Next year again.... Let`s hope we wont start in snow :)

Enjoy the video

Clean your country in one day

Estonia did this action 2008 and some people organised the same one day action here in Slovenia on this weekend. There are 2 million people in Slovenia and belive it or not there where 250.000 people on that day, cleaning every corner of their land.
Our free flying club also assisted in the action and cleaned big area around the landing field. You see the bushes and trees but you don`t see what is hiding inside, lots looots of trash.

There where 60.000 m3 of trash colected in one day. It is a good example for all countries to use. I hope it will become a tradition and there will be every year so many people attending this super green day.

The GoPro mount to the base bar

There where many people asking about how I mounted the camera to the speed bar. Since I don`t have time to fabricate something fancy it was a short trip to the first gardening store where I searched for a retractable tube. I found a very nice tube that has this ability and in the end it doesn`t go appart so I don`t have to worry about pulling the tube so much out that it would actualy fall out.
This is the first high tech peace that you need for this mount. I found it for 10 EUR. Next high tech peace is elastic rope with which you attach the tube in to the area where speed bar and upright are conected. You can squeeze the tube in that place so it is fixed in all directions.
NExt high tech thing is with the GoPro. I used a tripod mount which I had to order with my camera and then I used the mount from Compeo or Flytec or.... To attach the camera to the tube.
It is not the less weight solution but it is good to have a possibility to turn the camera in what direction you want. See the pictures to understand this realy high tech solution :)

The elastic mount







There is one big fault to this design. You need to land properly because the tube wont move if you land your nose down... :)

Video of a dream

The dream day also in moving picture

Take the link to youtube for a better quality