Ep. 009: Kelly Davis Shares the Joys of Paragliding
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2015
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Ever wonder what it would be like to soar like an eagle over Colorado’s highest peaks? What is it like to fly, without a motor or propeller, depending only on the weather, your wits and a cloth wing? Join us on today’s episode featuring Kelly Davis as he shares great stories and information on tandem paragliding in Colorado.
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| 0:00.0 | Episode 9, Paragliding. |
| 0:06.6 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:23.5 | Brought to you by 180Tack. |
| 0:25.9 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:40.0 | Welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:41.7 | This is your host, Kurt Lindville. |
| 0:47.0 | Our show today is about paragliding with paragliding instructor Kelly Davis. |
| 0:50.9 | Kelly Davis is the owner and operator of Colorado paragliding. |
| 0:58.4 | Kelly first flew way back in 1990 in Showmany, France. By 1991, he was flying alone. |
| 1:06.9 | In 1992, he got his instructor certification. In 1994, he started doing tandem flights, so he has over 20 years in the business. He's flown all over the U.S., including Alaska, California, Colorado. |
| 1:12.2 | But these days, you'll most generally find him at Lookout Mountain right here in Golden, Colorado. |
| 1:18.4 | Kelly, welcome to the program. |
| 1:20.9 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:22.3 | Kelly, please take a few minutes to tell our listeners more about paragliding, |
| 1:26.4 | about your experience as a paragliding instructor, |
| 1:30.2 | and also about your business, Colorado paragliding. |
| 1:34.3 | Yeah, I guess as a kid, I always, you know, you had those dreams about flying, and before |
| 1:40.5 | there was a term bucket list there in France, i had my list of things you want to do before |
| 1:45.5 | you die and was jump up on an airplane and i saw the paraguolo flooding in france and now it's |
| 1:51.0 | probably the same thing and yeah the 1990 it was probably closer to that than what it is today |
| 1:57.2 | with the technology of our paragliding wings and that's how I guess, got kind of first hooked into the sport and made the time |
| 2:05.5 | commitment in 91, that that was something I was going to learn to do. |
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