Friday 24/10
    Finally there is change but unfortunately to the worse. The sky is from the dawn quite angry, with a lot of clouds through which the sun shines only occasionally. On the top of that the wind on the range has got stronger than yesterday and the beginners are advised to go and have a swim instead of getting up on the hill.



    "Actually, it is a Deep Stall, Sack Flug in German, but the trajectory of my fall is not totally vertical and in fact it is a inconsiderable backing up," explains the master of acrobatic paragliding Mike Kung a figure, that caught my eye yesterday. He is gradually slowing the speed of flight until the last moment of extension - in that moment the canopy's profile stops to be flowed at frontally, it looses its uplift pressure and is falling hot down. Than very sensitive game with the brakes comes to turn - to make sure that canopy will not go back backwards or forward and stays in an almost vertical fall. Naturally this balancing must be very symmetric; otherwise the canopy would instantly get into rotation. Well, when you are good at it, it is easy going and Mike dares to fall like this even thousands metres. There is not reason not to believe him; after all he is the champion.

    Thanks to the lesser intensity of the shining sun we have got not such a hot day today, it is "only" 27°C. But the locals do indeed say that now it is quite cold and that during the summer they are used to the temperatures about 50°C, of course in the shadow.

    Even that the wind on the beach is getting calm, after noon it gets strong up to 8m/s on both launches and the sky above the sea is completely without paragliders in the afternoon. The committee of the acrobatic competition is getting bored and therefore is judging the girls coming round the table by lifting the numbers. Naturally in these terrestrial latitudes every slim blonde girl gets ten points.

    Only just before 3 pm Mike Kung is taking off with great difficulties into the still stronger wind and high above the beach shows his acrobatic art. I will not mention Tomas Lednik today as I guess he wouldn't be very happy about it. I am just little bit worried that he will hardly live a long life.