You don't see that everyday....!
Screen cap from a video I took of some dude partaking in a litle "Powered Paragliding" as it's apparently called, at Hollywood Beach - 12.5.12
I don't know, this was just so trippy to see. Totally fly like a bird. I'm surprised this shit is legal! O.o Seriously.... If you've never seen it, basically it's a free flying paragliding. You sit in this motorized contraption and just....fly around. It makes a really loud motorized whirring noise that you can hear coming up the beach. The guy flying was swinging his legs a little as he flew like he was riding in a ski lift or something. :D
Then again it doesn't surprise me that this is legal here, because if there's one thing nobody could accuse Florida of being, it's having a "nanny state" mentality. Here, anything goes. You want drive around on a motorcycle or a bicycle without a helmet, smoke in restaurants, have a full on fireworks show in your backyard on New Year's and July 4th, sit in the open bed of a pickup truck racing down the road, get into a motorized paraglider and free fly around to who knows where.......then go for it, because unlike how it is in other "nanny" states you're responsible for your own safety here. :D I love it.
At first I was thinking it could be kind of fun to try something like this............then I started looking up vids on YouTube. It's kinda telling when you go to type in "Powered Paragliding" and the autofill function fills in "Powered Paragliding Crashes" for you. :D Next thing you know Tom and I were watching all these hang gliding and powered paragliding accident vids. Some of them were pretty comical, so Tom had the idea to load up the song "Yakety Sax" (benny hill) and watch them with that particular soundtrack. Highly recommended. ;) But some of them were kind of scary, as apparently a big risk in this sport is that the parachutes are very vulnerable to sudden wind loss. The whole thing will just....collapse....and down you go, crashing to the ground. No thanks. !!!
You don't see that everyday....!
Screen cap from a video I took of some dude partaking in a litle "Powered Paragliding" as it's apparently called, at Hollywood Beach - 12.5.12
I don't know, this was just so trippy to see. Totally fly like a bird. I'm surprised this shit is legal! O.o Seriously.... If you've never seen it, basically it's a free flying paragliding. You sit in this motorized contraption and just....fly around. It makes a really loud motorized whirring noise that you can hear coming up the beach. The guy flying was swinging his legs a little as he flew like he was riding in a ski lift or something. :D
Then again it doesn't surprise me that this is legal here, because if there's one thing nobody could accuse Florida of being, it's having a "nanny state" mentality. Here, anything goes. You want drive around on a motorcycle or a bicycle without a helmet, smoke in restaurants, have a full on fireworks show in your backyard on New Year's and July 4th, sit in the open bed of a pickup truck racing down the road, get into a motorized paraglider and free fly around to who knows where.......then go for it, because unlike how it is in other "nanny" states you're responsible for your own safety here. :D I love it.
At first I was thinking it could be kind of fun to try something like this............then I started looking up vids on YouTube. It's kinda telling when you go to type in "Powered Paragliding" and the autofill function fills in "Powered Paragliding Crashes" for you. :D Next thing you know Tom and I were watching all these hang gliding and powered paragliding accident vids. Some of them were pretty comical, so Tom had the idea to load up the song "Yakety Sax" (benny hill) and watch them with that particular soundtrack. Highly recommended. ;) But some of them were kind of scary, as apparently a big risk in this sport is that the parachutes are very vulnerable to sudden wind loss. The whole thing will just....collapse....and down you go, crashing to the ground. No thanks. !!!