For the third time, a justACRO team member took part in one of the most exciting multi-sport events, the Nissan Outdoor Games. The concept is simple: 5 teams, 5 sports and 5 days to create a 5 minutes movie! This was the second winter edition, held in Chamonix which is of course a prefect location for all the sport arts like freeride skiing and snowboarding, mountain climbing, base-jumping, paragliding and speed-riding. Compared to the summer edition, the job is even a bit tougher, not just because of the winter conditions, but also the days are much shorter and there is simply less time to shoot, so the teams have to be time effective and the storyboard well planned.

Pál joined the team Insomnia, first of all to do speed-riding together with the Ueli Kestenholz and some paragliding acro action as well. The Team just got organized together in the last minutes, some athletes like Pál joined in the last days, and there was no well prepared storyboard, the plan was just simply to put the sports together, link them with some nice, funny connections, just focus on the action itself and enjoy this challenging week. Ueli, Pál and the film crew made a great job and some great speed-riding images, probably the most spectacular ones on the event.

On Saturday, like last year, Pál took part in the "worlds highest airshow" as well which consists of wingsuit base jumping and paragliding acro. Unfortunately due to the extremely strong high-altitude wind the pilots could not jump from 4500 meters as it was planned, to fly in front of the terasse of Aiguille du Midi (3842m), so instead they dropped at 3800 meters to impress the public at the Aiguille middle station. Then in the afternoon another show was held at the busy ski resort of Grande Montets where at least 400 skiers gathered together to watch some of the best acro pilots and wingsuit flyers in the world.

 Click here to watch Insomnia's movie

The next edition of the Nissan Outdoor Games will be held this summer in July in Interlaken, Switzerland.
Visit the official website at: www.nissanoutdoorgames.com

justACRO Team's last paragliding show was a great success at the Ski World Cup in Kitzbühel, Austria on 23th January 2009. Hahnenkamm Rennen is one of the biggest ski competitions in Europe which has a great media coverage and was also broadcasted live on the ORF Austrian television and was shown on several TV channels worldwide. 15000 people came to watch the SuperG slalom race. Pal and Gabor jumped out of the helicopter 900 meters above the event 5 minutes before the final run started .Despite the turbulence caused by the strong south wind they had a great synchro session and landed in finish line. According to the feedback of the public, they enjoyed the show as well.

The Team is now working on to be able to fly at such huge events in this season. 

Watch this short clip made about the sailplane and paragliding sideact.

The video gallery is updated with 3 new clips. ’Infinity’, ’Streamline’ and ’Secrets’ were shot during the summer tour of 2008.                 Check them out!

An ’all night long’ movie will be released soon with the title ’University of acro’ by Andras Kollmann. This film tells about the history of acro paragliding through the story of two young and ambitious pilots from Hungary.

After a sensational run Gabor Kezi took the 1^st place on the World Air Games test event in Italy on the 18^th August 2008. The field was tough at the paragliders because only the top pilots of the world ranking could enter the competition.

„World Air Games is the flagship event of FAI - the World Air Sports Federation.

Normally held every two years, the World Air Games is the premier and only official world multi-discipline air sport event, at which the world’s top air sport athletes compete for the prestigious title of “World Air Games Champion”.

Unfolding over a week, the World Air Games combine tough competitions with spectacular shows and demonstrations, celebrate the magic of the third dimension and encourage the development of new, attractive and innovative air sport events.”

Despite the rain ACROARIA the last world cup event this year ended with two successful runs. There was a big fight for the first place: the Kezi-Planton duo was close to the spanish SAT Team but finally they finished second. In solo Gabor was 8^th. At the prize giving ceremony they immediately announced the overall final results of this year’s world cup series which verified the fact again that the Hungarian blue has world class level athletes in this airsport too:

Alexandra Grillmayer (Szasza) finished 16^th overall, Peter Szabo was 14^th. Szasza is currently Nr 5 in the women’s World Ranking. Gabor Kezi improved his position from last year and finished 7^th, in synchro he could step up to the 2^nd place of the podium.

9th August 2008. „Fete de Geneve”

Half a million people crowded on the big celebration of Geneva. Everywhere around the lake the roads were closed just the mass was flowing on the streets enjoying the sunny afternoon and the attractions on the side of the lake. Pal and Gabor arrived on a helicopter with the last rays of the sun. They dropped from 1000 meters, opened their gliders and started their spectacular falling dance. The beautiful choreography was rewarded with big applause and ovation by the public. After the sunset huge fireworks put the crown on the day.

„This was our biggest show ever and I have to admit that we were keeping the fingers crossed because of the stress. Pal was hobbling to the helicopter still with his crutches but in the air he was still the same fit like always. J We have received a lot of positive feedback from the audience and we’re glad that our sponsors are more and more satisfied.” Gabor Kezi

It was loud in Lecco, Italy on the 20th July because of a huge air show where Gabor performed a spectacular show for the crowd at the beach.

„When I jumped out of the helicopter and looked around: the view of the people around the lake was amazing! It was a very memorable experience to fly in front of so many spectators. The organizers told me after that they were around 30.000.”

This year’s first tournament was the Vertigo. It was the location of the first World Championship, now it’s part of the Aerobatics Paragliding World Cup Tour and still cosidered as one of the most important events in the acro scene. On Saturday there was a new concept in the competition (Open) where the judges scored the pilots live right after their run.

Gabor Kezi and Cyril Planton, the JOKER Team could step up to the podium on the 2nd place, and reached the 2nd position in the Open competition as well. This result is really outstanding because they had only one single training flight together before the first run.