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when I was a kid I loved
a lot the story of the little prince
I had the book with the pictures I
remember especially a vinyl record a
old who was living up to my
eyes it was a 78 rpm so he
was running fast as fast as the planet
of the little prince who was from elsewhere
drawn in the center of this disc with
shining shining stars is full
promises makes your life a dream and
of a dream a reality
this sentence we all know it under
one form or another we have seen
reviewed it circulates on the networks
social
yes but this sentence she and of
the author of the little prince saint-exupéry
and this dream saint-exupéry lived it
in heaven like these famous pioneers
those heroes who dared to live the dream
icare stolen but that was it ago
long ago
over a hundred years for his first
planner is today on our
planet that does not look like
that of the little prince where everything is
formatted aseptic where the risk has
no longer really his place or often when
we steal it looks more like taking the
bus is still rush hour
how can we find purity
the authenticity of this icare dream
he’s about 30 years old I saw for the
first time in the mountains of
Alps
these slope parachutes were
colorful veils in the image of their
pilots often dressed in flow to
the 80s forced it was first of all
paratroopers who wanted to break free
from the plane climb or from
mountaineers who wanted to look at
to descend from the peaks otherwise than
foot of the brave heroes the
unconscious will say some
they were modifying parachutes with their
sewing machine to move them forward
to make them fly a parachute it does not
does that go down by modifying them for
to make them as advanced hovering it was
won
we could go down mountains in
twine fabric flying a little
climbing harness
all in a backpack it was
good party at that time the
hovering performance was really
not terrible
barely better than his sheets of
paper besides paragliding was born
at the same time as his first nickname
which did not really make him dream
europe the slope and adventure get
ends is very often in the
trees even worse but no matter
is for me the dream took shape he
has become accessible
the magic of free flying to operate the
paragliding has come into my life since
his 80’s paragliding and the
knowledge that goes with have well
evolved our little ones they became
true gliders of talents get
are multiplied with joys and
penalties the limits have been pushed back
by a miracle however gravity is
still there a paraglider does only
go down and yet they have
taken off a hill a few
hundreds of meters and there they are
perched at more than 3000 meters how
is it possible
where does the energy is the sun
and the wind the sun heats the ground and
the ler at his touch heats up to
turn and end up rising like
a bubble in often paragliding as
in an elevator it is also this
that we call the ascendants and that
also walks with the wind the wind
it goes back in relief a mountain and
lift the paraglider with him with
this one energy the records are
continually improved through the
world
first of all, a simple slope flight
then valley crossings finally
whole regions
today we can fly more than 500
kilometers in one flight
to stay in the air twelve hours of time
without touching the ground fabulous ride
Aerial
all with a backpack and in one
day
after all these years my fascination
for paragliding distance flight is
always intact the prospect of a
nice flying day always gives me
so much emotion then at this stage I
fear that you have it now
understood I could tell you about my
drug until tomorrow morning
just a little story there are some
month I was hitchhiking at the edge of the
route is often the case when returning from
distance flights
a motorist stops I go up
hello madam thank you very much
I’ll explain what I’m doing
there with my paraglider with my big bag
on the back she listens to me
after a while they ask me
you do not bother palau she was going
pick up her kids at school and I
well understood that my story of
paragliding
she found futile and useless
dangerous I was still perched
on my little cloud and I struggled to
explained to him but it will do
think and today I believe in
know a little more I realized that the
conduct of these flights of distances
had many analogies with the
life that every flight was a metaphor
amazing with the summary of a whole
life a kind of time focused
riddled with correspondence let’s look at that
takeoff is birth when
our feet leave the ground we let the
gravity behind we get out of the box
in two dimensions and we take a
first real breath
Besides, we can even push a
little cry like the infant who
discover his new environment in
the outside of his mother the paraglider
it enters the third dimension
by standing out from the mother earth a
very often the favorite moment of
paragliders everything is possible from
wildest dreams are allowed
how far our destiny of the day
will bring tel the sky is our land
of play then there is not really any
limitations
the beginnings of a flight of distance is
childhood youth
we are on the lookout for all
sensations
we must find this famous potion
antigravity to climb to grow
the ascendants are our elixir of life
they are our real food
so we capture all those who compose
found to rise to grow to
do like the big ones and not
finish down the slope and of course
mistakes of youth are possible
we can stumble and the risk of seeing
land too early and well present
so that’s when
dreams must become reality
it is necessary to concretize and the dream to this
that’s when we got it
found the first ancestry we are
perched we are in is beautiful the world is
at our feet all of us suddenly seem
more accessible altitude gives us
a new attitude like a teenager finally
a teenager in form we have doc operative you
See what I mean
we are optimistic and happy we are ready
to cut the cord
impatient to leave the nest is
departure time
it is the validated growth it is
the emancipation of the young adult
but soon it’s also time for
first big decisions
we want autonomy we have to assume
should we continue to climb while remaining
in his bubble for more security
or then choose a direction to trace its
road
choices can be heavy
consequences landed away from the nest
is not always easy to leave it’s
take a risk stays and it’s fall
in the routine in the addiction
tanguy syndrome or that of
self-taught
and then one day it’s decided to leave
the family bosom we manage his
independence the best we can
discover new relief of
new news options
sensations
the ups and downs
the vicissitudes of life sometimes
imperceptible sometimes in the form of
good slap
they can be fatal but they do
part of the trip
when we are at the bottom of the wave
maybe a bad decision a
wrong positioning or influence
a bit doubtful and it’s the crisis
altitude melts like snow in the sun
all dreams fly away and that’s the
survival mode that settles especially do not
not give in to the depression that lurks
it’s starvation then all the crumbs
are good to take
you have to get out of this situation then
incantations prayer swear everyone his
style this graphic is a flight I have
done in brazil about nine hours of
time we see all the saw teeth
which represents variations
altitude sometimes a few meters
sometimes several kilometers behind
every street every bump there is a
story a joy a misery I
remember his low points during this
flight
I was in distress at 50 meters
above the ground pushed by a hot wind
and dusty I slipped over
from a small village there was a school
it was the end of the classes the children
were in the yard they quickly did
to spot me they are screaming my
followed by running persuaded that I was going
land and I was there in the process of
fight me to gesticulate staying in
my little bubble who did not want to
trigger and I was low enough
to tell them no I do not want to
landing that’s where I want to go and
it lasted three or four kilometers
there was still under – a group of one
thirty kids
the most athletic guess and those who do not
did not want to let go of it and there
all of a sudden there is an air bubble
hot that’s finally going off and who
ejected me to the sky and I see again
still all his children
still this time silent that have me
watched uphill
he was sure it was over for
I started breathing again
it was a new start often
it’s a lot more Zen
rest assured a certain serenity
can be installed the sequences
become predictable the light is
beautiful we harvest the fruit of his
experience
it’s the maturity that comes with
experience
it is also the wisdom of old age
in any case, we like to believe it
sometimes we have a few hours on the clock
and by taking altitude we went
secured in his movements
ascendants are organized are
generous
it’s a feast of paragliders all
becomes a little easier this is the
time also of the reflection of the
gratitude for the contemplation of the
meditation on the world this report to
the real life
the other one we went to
subtract brief philosopher
it can also be the time of the balance sheet
too fast
comes the time when the end of the flight must
be considered the sweetness of the beginning of the
beginning of an evening announcement already
the arrival of twilight
the end is inescapable and it is
get closer then we do our best
to prepare it so as not to
undergo
we check his list so nothing
forget
the loop is looped the adventure get
end up we land so if I fly it’s
for all that is also full
other things I steal because every
veil is a concentrate of life of a
great intensity
we take risks we play his life
and especially in the day and yes we can
start again flight after flight again and
still then we play and we play again but
we can also be bored if we redo the
same thing we can fall into the
routine
so we try to improve at
every moment the birth the growth
maturity and wisdom even the
twilight I told you also we
could steal two to play two in
two-seater and get into it moment I
did otherwise and if I went out of
my habits to play better then
want and play as the sun
will shine thanks
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