I fly for them! Support and visit VINS!! They rock! I have always had a passion for raptors (birds of prey), and have this sticker on my helmet as a salute to the injured birds. VINS is a raptor center a home for birds to live out a good life after being injured or from other complications. Since I started paragliding, I have had a VINS (Vermont Institute of Natural Science) sticker on my helmet. He and Anto welcomed me, and that’s when it all happened… I met the birds! I asked around the paragliding community if anyone could put me up for a few nights. Then in the autumn of 2016, I came to San Diego to hone and practice my flying skills before a trip to Asia. I first met Dave at a local paragliding club meeting. I came to the San Diego area back in 2008 to learn how to fly paragliders. Teaming up with his wife Anto and local master falconer Terry Lockwood, they took to making dreams of flying with birds come true… in the USA for the first time! Both are a must see! Check out what Scott is up to here: Īfter the noble and mighty task of helping Scott with his documentary, Dave came back to the US with a whole new passion stapled to his power focus… Parahawking. It’s the sequel to the film “Parahawking”. Dave, already having birds tattooed on his arm, naturally took to helping Scott with the birds and film. By happenstance Dave and Scott became friends just as Scott was making the film “Flight for Survival” a film about parahawking with Scott’s two Egyptian vultures named Kevin and Bob. There he met Scott Mason, creator and master Jedi of parahawking. Their love for flying gliders soared to a new level when David took a paragliding trip to Nepal. They are both paragliding pilots as well. Two genius PhD scientists who have devoted most of their waking hours to their wonderful feathered companions, their falcons, hawks and owls. There are only a few groups of people in the world who engage in this amazing and rare task, and Dave and Anto are the only people who do it with Falcons, not hawks, eagles or vultures, in the whole world! Extremely well trained hawks, vultures or falcons are flown in the sky while one flies a paraglider. Parahawking is the combination of two rare sports Paragliding and Falconry. The first question that I always get when I tell people that I go Parahawking is “what is Parahawking?!?” and “How did you get into that?!?”
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