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I would like to talk to you about a sport not much
known but in which Italy now
for almost ten years he has been getting gods
excellent results
I would like to talk to you about my experience of
hang glider of an adventure that is me
happened and how the Italian national team
we have achieved results
so amazing my father started
fly in a hang glider when I was
four years
was the 1975 hang glider then yes
he called to the cock gallo by the name of his
inventor was true just over 11 years
at that time this type of activity
it was a rather dangerous activity
both because the instructors were missing
because the knowledge was scarce
parts of the builders and pilots ne
hang-gliders could be considered gods
true pioneers who experimented
practically everything on your skin
despite this the desire to fly
it was too strong a stimulus and in those
years in the 75 85s and hang-gliding
practically on the most widespread means a
amateur level to fly
my mother is always always remembered
as he had discovered that my father had
started flying
when my father came home from
I worked and had a little Mario
injury did not fail to do it right away
notice when it reappears later
whole weekends where no one knew
where he had been and with huge bruises on the
legs on the arms
he always tended to minimize it
when the news that my father has
been flying became all the official
family begin to follow him on the fields
flight and as soon as I had the chance
It is bill and type consent of the parents
for foul to start flying too
I was 17 years old
the text in plano in that period had
immediately already of the enormous improvements
he had become safer at
depth knowledge had already
then one could say that for a boy
of my age flying with the hang glider now
it’s safer than he can not move on
roads with the motorcycle pro area
now I would like to ask you to do a little
effort of imagination
think of a 17-year-old boy
grew up in a small town of
mountain with the desire to travel of
explore new territories to visit
as much as possible nature that it
surrounds
when the internet does not
he still knew and the phones did not
they existed well think of this young man
which offers the possibility to open
the wings and literally take flight
fly over mountains and lakes rivers
visit nature in a complete way
completely new both alone and
maybe joined by a friend for
come back maybe at the end of the day after
having traveled tens of hundreds
kilometers or to get lost in one
place that has never visited before
travel alone thanks to the energy of the
sun and wind
think again about meeting with a flashlight
that for a brief intense the moment
I think this bird is one
good playmate I would like to ask you
it does not seem like a dream
well, the hang glider is a dream from
live and relive and this has been for
me my dream what I tried to
to realize and of course it must be done
with eyes wide open and now I would like to make you
I would like to tell you a little one
experience that happened to me one of the
most beautiful events that brings me
still below even if they have passed
some years had taken off from one
mountain near home to fulfill a
round trip flight after about one
sixty kilometers I decide to
make a detour of the route
classic to go climbing one
mountain I had never visited
in supporting this mountain finds
an ascending current and begins to
to go up
a few moments later I see below
enter the same wholesale current
rapacious that I recognize being when yes
bring my share a young eagle
well at this point I would expect that
the eagle b overcomes and goes away instead
something extraordinary happens to the eagle
keeps weapons at altitude starting at
turn around me before it leads us to
right then to the left then I pass underneath
then come back on
I feel under scrutiny I do not understand what
happening at some point happens
an incredible thing
the eagle instead of leaving enters
what we pilots believe to be
our vital space, that is, it slips
under my right hand
I’m thrilled by a shiver
it runs all over the body and I do not know what
do
the eagle in the meantime continues to
approach and I instinctively for
reaction I tend to push on the bar
get away control when
where the distance on the judge to a point
such that I almost could touch it
you turn it on itself and it goes away
it leaves me an incredible wonder
while we have already reached the quota
some doubts and it takes me different
minutes before returning to breathe
well this motion that me
he always accompanied that he is a part
of the reasons why today flight but
also indicated the way I had to
follow it when after university
I was offered the chance to
start working for icaro 2000
a company that produces hang gliders
province of varese almost immediately
the opportunity on the fly
this allowed me among res to fly
more assiduously to participate in the
races because part of my job is
try delta blahnik we produce and the
races but no but not allowed to learn
and to grow again with time then the
hang gliding and races but also experiences
like those of the eagle they have me
taught that winning a race without
having fun does not make complete sense
I think we must be aware
of the luck we have in living
some moments we must be able to face
a positive spirit experiences
unique that life offers us the pd e
in this way not only
we could even get the i
better results because if
we face our tests in a manner
more serene we could perhaps get
better results but the whole is
it will also reveal much more satisfying
this through probably also
one of the main reasons why the
Italian school and hang-gliding is
successful in recent years to obtain
five world champion titles
consecutive the only team to ever have
obtained a result of this type
many times we are asked what it is
our secret
well we believe it is right
the friendship that binds the ability to
understand that live certain moments
unique is invaluable
these things allow us to fly in
harmony
they allowed us to become one
team sports
a sport that is not as a team
loyalty plano a team sport e
on the harmony that reigns in the
team every single individual manages to
give the maximum of himself I think so
this is a demonstration of what
may the passion the determination and
it is a positive team spirit that
finally becomes the basis on the
which to support each individual
of course I think this model is
here I conclude it is not just for sport
but be transferable and it should be
possible to transfer it to all
areas of our life
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