Age: 38

Main sports:
Skydive swooping

Palmares:
4way US and World champion, Canopy piloting World champion.

Sponsors:
Performance designs, Factory team

Jon Tagle is world champion in Skydiving, and canopy piloting. The US star will fight with the french touch speedriders!

Felix Rodriguez, SPA

Age: 30

Main sports:
Paragliding

Palmares:
1st REDBULL VERTIGO 2000, 2001,2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
1st sincro, 3rd solo World championships 2006

Sponsors:
Nacex, ozone

Team SAT
Felix is a multi world champion in acro Paragliding with his brother Raul. With the SAT team they invented all actual manovers.

35 years old

Main sports:
Speedriding, Paragliding.

Palmares:
3rd Redbull Speeride 2008
4th Speedpro Les Arcs 07, 2nd Speed air cup Valfréjus 07,
Eiger Premiere, Mont Blanc premiere.

Sponsors:
The North Face, GIN, Zag Skis, Black Diamond, Speedriding school, POC, Les Arcs.

He is one of the pionners in Speedflying and Speedriding. Test pilot for Gin Gliders, he made Mont Blanc and Eiger world premieres. One of the principal developers of the activity.

http://www.acro-base.com/

Age: 26

Main sports:
Acro paragliding, speed riding, ski, free fall

Palmares:
1st Redbull Speeride 2008
infinity tumbling  record man, 2nd place world champion ship 2006

Sponsors:
gradient, julbo, salomon

Antoine is Vice world Champion in Acro pargliding, and one of the precursors in Speedriding, considered as the master in freeride ! Member of the soul flyers team .

Age: 37

Main sports:
SPEED RIDING, ACRO PARAGLIGING

Palmares:
Valfréjus 2007, 3rd position
Speedflyingpro Les Arcs 2007, 2nd position

Sponsors:
AIRBORN CONCEPT, VOLKL, TECHNICA, TRICOLOR, PLUSMAX

As he was one of the acro paragliding precursors, he is pioneer of speedriding. He created the acro world cup. He’s now the French acro paragliding team coach.

29 years old

Main sports:
Paragliding, Speedriding

Sponsors:
Air seveloppement Mont Blanc, Bio Ride Team

Yohan is paragliding and speedriding instructor in Chamonix. He participates in the development of Bio Air speedriding gliders.

29 years old

Main sports:
Paragliding, BASE jumping, Skydiving, Speedriding

Sponsors:
Ozone, Nordica, AlpinSchiede

Matt Gerdes is works in promotion and as a test pilot for Ozone. A complete and powerful rider.

www.matttg.com

Age: 37

Main sports:
Speed riding, Paragliding

Sponsors:
VÖLKL, TECHNICA, MARKER, PLUS MAX, TRICOLOR, AIR SPEED CONCEPT, LES SYBELLES  

Team Ataka
Frank is one of the precursors of Speedriding. He is one of the creator of “Air Speed Concept” brand. He teachs in the Ataka speed school in Valfréjus, France.

Frederic Fugen, FRA

Age: 28

Main sports:
skydiving (freefly), BASE jumping

Palmares:
world champion freefly 2004, 2005, 2006

Sponsors:
performance designs, skydive empuriabrava, airtec, sonic suits, volkl

Team Babylon/Ataka
Fred was one of the first people to go in the slopes with skis and very small skydiving canopies.. He is Speedflying at the top level...

Age : 23

Main sports:
Skydiving freefly, base jumping

Palmares:
Skydiving world champion 04, 05, 06

Sponsors:
Skydive Empuriabrava, Performance Designs, Outfacing, Sonic Flywear, Airtec

Team Babylon
Vince is very ambitious, this skydiving world champion is hungry for victory…

Age : 31

Main sports:
Skydiving, Paragliding

Sponsors:
Parachutes de France

Team acro-base
Xavier is a designer and a test pilot to one of the biggest manufacturers of skydiving in the world. Long time paraglider and speedrider from the very beginning.

Age : 41

Main sports:
Skydiving freefly, base jumping

Palmares:
Team Babylon founder, world champion 04, 05, 06.

Sponsors:
Skydive Empuriabrava, Performance Designs, Outfacing, Sonic Flywear, Airtec, Fly your Body.

Team Babylon
Founder of the Babylon team, he inspired a lot of freeflyers in the world. His passion and creativity is keeping him young! Respect.. and watch out...

Mathias Roten, CH

Age:28

Main sports:
Paragliding

Palmares:
2nd Redbull Speeride 2008
1st Valfréjus 2007

Sponsors:
Columbia sports wear, atomic skies, Cookiecomposites,  North Kiteboarding

Mathias a real racer. He’s the head of the Swiss speedriding scene, as well as a top level Paragliding Pilot.

Age : 21

Main sports:
Paragliding, Skydiving, base jumping

Sponsors:
GIN Superfly, LOKI USA

Behind a quiet face, a top experienced and high level rider is hidden.

AGE: 20

Main sports:
Speed riding-Paragliding

Palmares:
2nd at the zinal mauler cup speed riding
5th at the speed pro les arcs 07

Sponsors:
Niviuk Gliders, flyverbier.ch, dehavilland watches.

The young and solid Swiss speedriding generation with strong ambitions!!

Age: 33

Main sports:
paraglider, skier, speedrider

Palmares:
9th at the speed pro les arcs 07

Paraglider and skier, he is a rider who knows how to handle both disciplins together as a master.

Mike Steen, USA

Age: 24

Main sports:
Paragliding, BASE, Wingsuit, Snow Kiting,

Sponsors:
Ozone, Zeal Optics, The North Face

US Style, versatile, Mike is Fun and adrenalin addicted.

Age : 27

Main sports:
Snowboard, Base Jump

Palmares:
1st Xtreme Verbier, Arctix Freeride, Engadinsnow international

Sponsors:
Nissan, Columbia, Swatch, Wessex Academy, F2, DaKine

Team Columbia
Géraldine communicates with the snow and the mountains, Speedriding has no secrets for her...

Age: 36

Main sports:
Paragliding, Climbing

Sponsors:
Columbia, Aerosport

Thomas is a mountainer, acro paragliding pilot who participated at the acro worlds in 2006. Speedriding since the beginning in Austria/Germany , he’ll represent this side of the alps arc..

Age: 27

Main sports:
Paragliding acro

Sponsors:
Columbia

With his colleague Tom Mai, Max represents the solid Austrian style.

Age: 35

Main sports:
Paragliding, Kitesurfing

Palmares:
5th Speedflyingpro Les Arcs 2007

Sponsors:
Airspeed concept, Volk, Technica, Tricolor, Plusmax

Team ATAKA
Pat is hight level versatile rider, unvoidable in Comps.

Age : 20

Main sports:
Speed riding, acro paragliding 

Sponsors:
Volkl  , Air speed concept 

That’s the young french generation!.. the future of paragliding aerobatics… and also I big talent while speedriding.

Daniel Kofler, AUT

Main sports:
speed-riding, paragliding

Palmares:
5th Redbull Speeride 2008

Sponsors:
Swing, Oneill, Völkl, Cebe

Link:
http://www.speedflyingtv.com/

Daniel has a powerfull and aggressive style !

Age: 37

Main sport:
paragliding, speedriding

Palmares:
4th at the Red Bull Speedride in St Anton

Link:
www.speedriding.at

Simon is one of the best speedriders and teachers in Austria. After beeing 4th at the Red Bull Speedride in St Anton, he’s the last selected rider on the event.

Kevin Love, USA

Age:  34

Main sports:
Sky diving, Pro Canopy Pilot

Sponsors:
Niviuk, Performance Designs, Mirage, Liquid Sky

Kevin Loves to swoop ! One of the best canopy pilots in USA, always in the good ranks, also speedflying addict.

Pierre Malbet, FRA

Age:  26

Main sports.. :
Paragliding, skiing, snowboarding , speedriding.

Sponsors :
Zag, Swing, Sport Aventure.

Pierre is from Courchevel. He is a long experienced speedrider, realises some rides and Videos with Antoine Montant. He participated in the Red Bull Speedride in Austria in January 2008.

The riders who will not able to join the competition this year...

29 years old... 30 on february 8th!!

Main sports:
BASE jumping, Skydiving, Wingsuit

Palmares:
World class Free-Fly (1st, 2nd, 3rd), Relativ work (3x3rd), Wingsuit athlete

Sponsors:
Redbull, Julbo.

Team: Soul Flyers, Speedflying pro 2007 winner.
The mythic wingsuiter, The Soulflyer team leader is the winner of the 2007 edition.

Link:
http://www.flyyourbody.com/

Main sports:
Paragliding, Bouldering

Palmares:
1st Acroparagliding World cup from 2000 to 2006
1st sincro, 1st solo World championships 2006

Sponsors:
Niviuk, Sup'air.

Team SAT
El maestro... the best ever World pilot Acro Paragliding. He is also the creator of all aerobatic manovers in paragliding.

Age: 34

Main sports:
Acro paragliding

Palmares:
Nordic- and Norwegian Champion acro paragliding

Sponsors:
Gradient, Bula, Supair

One of the first speedriders in Scandinavia, and a top level acro paragliding pilot.

Age: 19

Main sports:
speed-riding, paragliding, skiing

Palmares:
14th Speedflying pro les Arcs 2007
6th Valfrejus 2007

Sponsors:
Niviuk

One of the young Swiss generation riders, with big motivation…