This is Freestyle Hang Gliding!

Many people all over the world have enjoyed the sport of Hang Gliding for more than 25 years. The basic design has seen many improvements from the slow and simple kites of yesterday to today's modern gliders. Many things have changed since the sport's early days, but the incredible sense of freedom a Hang Glider pilot feels while flying remains unchanged. Today, Aero Events freestyle pilots fly sleek, fast, high tech gliders to perform daring aerobatic stunts for exhibition. The same group has also presented the Masters of Freestyle Hang Gliding Contest since 1996.

Modern hang gliding is practiced on several different levels. Many pilots enjoy spending their Saturday afternoons floating blissfully around at local soaring sites. More adventurous pilots strive to cover as much distance as possible; their cross-country flights can take them a hundred miles or more! Some pilots take flying vacations, and tour the countryside to sample the flying at many different locations. Still others become tandem instructors; these pilots enjoy sharing the wonderful experience of gliding flight with passengers.

A select few pilots pursue Freestyle hang gliding; it is the extreme form of hang gliding where pilots perform challenging maneuvers to express their interpretation of flight. Freestyle hang gliding contests hold a unique type of Audience appeal found nowhere else in the world. The gliders dive and climb, again and again, as they gracefully perform loops, rollovers and spins. The action is fast paced and dramatically elegant with the gliders trailing bright tails of colored smoke that traces their paths across the sky.