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You absolutely nailed the true psychology as to why "hang gliding in particular is Freedom" ... the higher the risk the greater the freedom...and when you no longer fear death you finally become free... but HG is also like a meditation and a true Art because when you relax you connect more to the wing.

It's as dangerous as you're dumb enough to make it. Learn it right, fly it right and you'll be very glad you did!

I'm a old hang glider pilot, started flying 1974, last flight 2010, be very aware of the conditions & surroundings & you will probably live though it!!!

I flew those things for 12 years, lots of competitions including two World Championships. I only broke my pelvis once. Then I decided to take up a safer sprot, racing airplanes. Ten years, no injuries. That said, I still take my 1979 UP Condor to the Oregon coast every couple of year and soar the dune at Cape Kiwanda for an hour, make sure I can still do it. Shit, I'm only 78.

For me, the learning was the most dangerous part. I had zero knowledge to make the right choices. I had to trust an instructor for every decision. I feel much safer at every progression.

The last part reminded me of my first Dragonfly ultralight solo. I was thinking "On this planet of billions of people, there's not one of them who can help me if I get into trouble-It's all up to me."

This is rubbish. You need to at least normalize by time to make sense. Clearly, you would agree a day hang gliding is more dangerous than a day of netflix.

Are you still flying? I like your videos.

Two rather trite points from my experiences with extreme sports. Sadly, all lives have a 100% probability of ending in death - so cram in as much life as you can. Secondly, the drive home from the isolated locale with tiredness rising and adrenaline dropping is actually the most dangerous point as it is a familiar skill but still risky and people get complacent IMHO. Stay safe everyone and live wonderful lives! Thanks for the video, the stats are very helpful.

Man I want to get me 8 micromorts instead of 24

you should add the risk of doing nothing to risk of hand gliding. because risky factors of doing nothing is always with us.. plus add the risk factor of driving ( if we drive to the hand gliding point )

is hang gliding dangerous..... People who ask this I can guarantee your political party affiliation just by 1 sentence. Also lying about your said party affiliation to make a point also exactly like your party affiliation.

Be good superman

I dont agree with this .

Not dangerous, just unforgiving.

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You are full of shit

This is a really interesting episode! I see you only uploaded a handfull of video's and have not done any lately. Why did you decide to abandon the channel, you where off to such a great start!?

Keep posting more content

Cheers dude

I took up scuba diving and didn't manage my risk as well as I should have ended up getting the bends. The reason for the bends was I went on a commercial airplane flight about 19 hours after two deep dives. I got treated and recovered but the point of this is I didn't manage the risk well I setup a dive the day before we left was suppose to be one deep one sallow but dive master wanted to go on 2 deep dives. I wasn't thinking about flying out I was excited to dive both of those dives. Then we left to dive 14 hours to the airport got only a few hours of sleep. Due to a pre-existing medical condition sleep apnea which was untreated at the time all of that added up to having too much nitrogen. With anything in life need to manage risk before anything else when we do these activities. I knew the risk I should have planned better but I wasn't thinking about risk management at the time I scheduled the dive. The 2nd deep dive again I should have sat that one out I did ask the 19 year old DM what he thought about flying out the next morning at 6am now I let him manage my risk he was a young kid solid muscle I'm 50 year old overweight guy. Hang gliding risk management probably starts with the weather.

So great to see this... awesome experience learning from Rohan. Just did my first XC with him this weekend

Hi, I enjoyed your videos, are you still flying?

Silly comparison to throw in daily living, and statistically meaningless.

Good stuff. I'll be doing it next spring!

Any extreme sport is dangerous. I'm watching this after the youtuber paraglider died this week. If your life is more important, stay grounded.

I am bit worried that suddenly all videos stopped. Are you alive????

great video , loved watching it

I'm sure there's something in this, although I can think of counter-arguments. Computer games can be fun, but not dangerous. Surgical operations may be dangerous, but aren't fun. UK stats say there is one hang-gliding death per 116,000 flights here .... but hang gliding would still look fun no matter how safe. Admittedly the proximity to enormous deadly heights looks like it adds to the fun. Perhaps it's about the perception of danger.

Id say adrenaline and other feelings are a constant bet between you and the dead.

I was doing it in the early 80's and I found that it was fairly dangerous because of my location. I stopped flying because of financial reasons and never started again because of fear of risk. But now I wish I had kept flying. If you can do it in a safe place, and you don't take big risks, it's not very dangerous. Pilots forget to clip in, or they do loop-de-loops, or they hit power lines, and that raises the number of micromorts. But if you are extremely careful, its probably not that risky.

This is very late, but how long did it take you for your first flight? 1 lession or more?

We want to see more you are making very professional videos...

Thankyou for posting this mate! Now I want to more than everrrrr!

Actually you should add to "living one day" column the rest of columns from right.

Great video

nice

I fly a hang glider , and I totally agree with your theory. I think that we are after a "fun" dose of adrenaline rather than "fight for life" dose. If I fly into a certain level of turbulence, the fight for life adrenaline takes over and the fun stops.

Hang gliding is as safe as you want to make it. Problem is if you take no risks it can get boring, if you take too much risk, you can get killed. A little risk seems just right as you can recover if necessary, and expand your envelop of knowledge. There are some wonderful adventures you can have. Every flight is different. People die because they cannot resist taking chances or try to do too much, fly when they are tired, or get lazy.

You forgot about sex-last night my girlfriend nearly killed me

Around 820 thousand flights and you have 100 percent chance of dying... Not bad...

love it

pretty amazing day i bet

nice. danger fun

Why do people do it? The FREEDOM of course!

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Nice one! love this

2:28 he starts

Love it