SerialCUP 2012

The epicness of this year’s three task Serial Cup can be easily compared with last year’s five task event. Besides of being a joyful flying and competitive experience for pilots flying serial wings, Serial Cup competition’s main goal is to be educative; from 26th August to 1th September 2012 mountains and skies above Soča valley, Slovenia, offered playground with great conditions and beautiful views for prototypical paragliding race flying, which was enhanced with on-the-ground daily theoretical lectures about safety (Slovenian mountain rescue team), paragliding psychology (Mads Syndergaard), recipes for winning (Marko Hrgetić), XC flights (Matic Erbežnik, Jošt Napret) and analysis of tasks (Primož Suša).

As intended by the orientation of competition, all three of four prepared tasks were finished by great amount of pilots. They were divided in three categories: Ewa Korneluk – Guzy (Germany) won in female category and Simon Konavec (Slovenia) in both, sport class (wings up to EN-C) and fun class (wings up to EN-B) categories. World top pilots were excluded from those categories in order to encourage new pilots to climb the podium. Despite this rule Valič brothers proved that their EN-B 777 Rook wing can be also a fast competition machine in experienced hands and score into top 10 overall (Aljaž 5th and Urban 10th). Fastest pilot overall was Marko Novak (Slovenia), with second place Robertas Pesliakas became the champion of the conjoined Lithuanian Championship and third place went to Poland with Bartosz Moszczynski.

SerialCUP 2012

Letošnji Serial Cup se s svojimi tremi tekmovanji z lahkoto primerja z opevanim lanskoletnim. Serial Cup ustvarja pogoje za uživanje tekmovalnega letenja, predvsem pa pilote za takšno letenje poskuša izobraževati; gore in nebo nad Posočjem je bilo med 26. avgustom in 1. septembrom odlično prizorišče za izvedbo “prototipnega” tekmovalnega letenja z jadralnimi padali. Letenju so vsakodnevno sledila različna predavanja: tolminski reševalci o ravnanju ob padalski nesreči, svetovno znani Mads Syndergaard je dvakrat govoril o psihologiji jadralnega padalstva, hrvaški večkratni prvak Marko Hrgetić o tipih pilotov na tekmovanjih ter o uporabi pospeševalnika, Matic Erbežnik in Jošt Napret sta opisala svoja nedavna epska preleta, Primož Suša pa je s piloti analiziral vsakodnevni potek tekmovanj.

Naloge tekmovanj so bile postavljene tako, da se je cilja lahko veselilo veliko pilotov. Svoje rezultate so merili v treh kategorijah: v ženski kategoriji je zmagovalka Ewa Korneluk – Guzy iz Nemčije, tako v razredu sport (padala do vključno EN-C varnostnega razreda) kot v razredu fun (padala do vključno EN-C) pa je zmago slavil Simon Konavec. Da bi k poseganju po najvišjih mestih spodbudili čim več novih pilotov, so bili iz teh kategorij izvzeti piloti, ki dosegajo najvišje uspehe v svetovnem merilu. Med temi sta tudi brata Valič, ki sta kljub temu pravilu dokazala, da je Rook (EN-B) padalo, ki lahko v kombinaciji z izkušenostjo posega po visokih mestih; v skupni uvrstitvi je Aljaž zasedel 5., Urban pa 10. mesto. Skupni zmagovalec tekmovanja je Marko Novak, drugo mesto in hkratno zmago na pridruženem Državnem prvenstvu Litve je zasedel Robertas Pesliakas, tretji pa je bil Poljak Bartosz Moszczynski.