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Is paragliding the same as parasailing, parachuting, or BASE jumping?

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Is paragliding the same as parasailing, parachuting, or BASE jumping?

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Not even close! Parasailing is what you do out on the ocean behind a boat. This requires no skill at all, and your at the mercy of the boat operator. He drags you up and down and you’ve probably had too much to drink if your on vacation. This is definitely not paragliding! Parachutes are designed to be deployed during a free-fall from an airplane and to then descend to the ground. We don’t deploy our paragliders. We inflate them like a kite, and ease them overhead. Base jumping is a form of paragliding for those crazy souls who like lots and lots of risk for a rush that lasts a few seconds. These lunatics jump from cliffs, bridges, buildings, or any other high altitude platform. Our gliders don’t endure the stress to the lines that parachutes lines do. We launch from gentle sloping hillsides with our gliders already inflated overhead ready to fly. We can check the glider and abort before we launch if we don’t see something we like. Launch is never rushed. We can pull the glider overhea

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