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.” 

The second station of the World Cup Tour was the Paranoia Acrobatix in Zell am See. At this location the competitors have less altitude to perform maneuvers so they have to choose carefully which tricks to put in their program. Gabor also did a new maneuver combination, he finished on the 7^th place.

Finally the moment has come: Pal and Gabor jumped out together from a helicopter in the final expression session. This was Pal’s first flight after his accident.

„It was an incredible feeling to be in the air again, to fly with Gabor and to see that the maneuvers still work perfectly after two months stop.” P.T.

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.

On the 25th of May on a nice Sunday afternoon while training Pal Takats suffered an accident in Stechlberg, Switzerland by ground-spiralling over high-grass. He went too low, the wingtip caught the flowers and pulled him down...He broke his left ankle in the impact. A few hours later he passed through an operation to fix the injured bones (with 3 screws) and the blood circulation in the foot. Then he spent 4 more days in the hospital but now he is back home and feels much better. He is focusing only on a fast recovery to be able to return to the sport as soon as possible.

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justACRO Team’ new year started with an assignment on Madeira:

Hartmut Peters – local U-turn dealer invited Gabor and Pal on the small Portuguese island for a light one-week promotion work. In these few days they flew about 20 hours together they appeared in several newspapers and produced a 16 minutes long movie. You can see here.

The Hungarian acro gurus swinged over their gliders 85 times.

Pal Takats and Gabor Kezi, the stars of the Hungarian paragliding scene set up the new world record in synchro infinty tumble.

The two pilots performed the most difficult existing acro maneuver in Ölüdeniz, Turkey in front of the spectators of Airgames Festival.

The infinity looks like they're jumping over the center of the glider. The two pilots were doing this maneuver several times in this season, but on competitions they did maximum 7 laps. Perhaps the record was inpired by the french superstar Antione Montant who performed 130 laps Infinty on the Coupe Icare Expo this autumn.

The justACRO pilots are about to make bigger record:

Gabor and Pal stay in Hungary for the winter and spend a lot of energy on getting authorization for D-bag jumps in Hungary that they can tumble in front of the Hungarian spectators.

Gabor Kezi: „We don’t have high mountains so we only make an acroshow by jumping out of a helicopter. However in West Europe this system is well-known and accepted, in Hungary we have to fight with the authorities. In my dream we’re doing a synchro spiral with Pal in front of our Parliament over the Danube. However.

"We will not sit all day with the authorities, we've started skydiving and flying paramotors also.”