Be That Guy (Hang Glide)

[@IANRPARKER]

@tontar Sold the bike and the boat! Now soaring over the White Horse at Westbury. Each flight is a new experience with so much to learn! Thanks for your help and encouragment.

[@hiohoh]

awesome video. im only 16 and i staqrted hang gliding about a month ago, and im loving it!

[@LestWeForget2012]

I have booked lessons starting April 30th for two weeks solid. I am going to be that guy! Can't F'ing Wait.

[@swordsinging1709]

LestWeForget2012 hope you did some sprints and working out before your intro. Its brutal on the quads for the first week.

[@208bro]

mate, first of all this would have to be the greatist hang gliding video i;ve ever seen,,,, this is the reason why i started hang gliding 12 months ago so thanks mate, its sertinaly an inspiration to the art of flying, i've being working on my HD video's and using your's as a bench mark. cheers. gary p

[@frankpeel9777]

Tontar, We first met the day you were leaving Marina Beach for the Great Northwest when I was a brand new HG student. Over the long haul we ended up sharing friends like Briggs C. Chris C. and Jim J. After all these years, Briggs and I are still friends. Like you, now I'm an old hand. Worth noting, there's a copy of your aerobatic clinic manual in my library. While I've never been a true aero pilot, your instruction helped make me a better pilot. So, while even today I can hear still Briggs chanting, "Fly the glider!," the meat you put on the bone was the substance I needed. This is my long way of putting perspective to "Be That Guy" being my favorite hang gliding video of all time. It's a spectacular piece of work. And for your helping, even by proxy, making me a better pilot. It's been a great life with so many incredible memories. But the Morning Glory in Australia beckons. South America. France. Maybe we'll meet on launch or a paddock someday. If so, beers are on me. Frank

[@Wingloader]

The music is perfect for this video! I bought the entire album! Probably the best HG video ever. For the first time in six years, I actually forwarded a HG video to my co workers. Fantastic.

[@tontar]

Depends on the weather. Gliders are always gliding without power, down through the air. On a good day, the air will be going up here or there, and we get in that rising air and go up with it. On those days, you can stay up a long time and fly a long distance too.

[@DJDeonPearson]

This is my favorite video on KZbin...period. It's also one of the most personally inspiring things I've ever seen. This video serves as the apex of my piqued interest in this sport, and I'm now certain that this will become a part of my life. Thank you for posting!!

[@LestWeForget2012]

@tontar finished by basic training! I boxed the field a couple times. Next is my novice train and I need all that gear. It is a feeling that cannot be described!

[@moonboss455]

I learned to fly there...40 years ago. There was still oil leaking to the surface from the gas stations in the Sunken City. Landing was in that field to the right. Great Video...brought back memories. Thanks

[@IANRPARKER]

This clip is fantastic! I watch it every couple of days. My wife told me to go and do it so I am. The MC is up for sale! I have just done my first proper flights where I felt in control for 200 yards of straight flight. Dreaming ON

[@tontar]

@LestWeForget2012 Where you headed for lessons? Keep me posted, and good luck. It's far more fun than this video can ever show!

[@paint2fly]

I hope he calls you!!! Very cool invite to one of my favorite Wild at Heart kinda guys. Beautiful flying, always enjoy watching a Master love what they do!

[@Hankxc]

Howdy Aron, Beautiful video! Clouds, sun, shadow, trees, Wow. Love the air to air shots and the hot landing!! I want to be that guy too! -Henry SF

[@tontar]

Thanks, Dave! I've been enjoying your stuff too. In fact, we were just down in your neck of the woods last week and flew Marshall Wednesday evening and Thursday twice.

[@tontar]

This is a stock Wills Wing T2 hang glider. Most high performance hang gliders can loop with the right pilot. It takes a desire and practice to be good, or be safe, however you want to look at it. The gliders are capable, but not every pilot is. :-) The frame is aluminum and carbon fiber. Check the Wills Wing website for details.

[@schism230]

beautiful! one of the best hang gliding videos!

[@swordsinging1709]

Great intro to your video. Glad Nicholas put the word out. This sport needs attention.

[@damunchiman]

Incredible !!! To see Nicholas Cage say "I Want to be that guy" is amazing. Your video is also an A+++ So well done, amazing quality and angles. Goes straight into my favorites (for any time I need an extra smile) Thanks for sharing!

[@tontar]

@LestWeForget2012 Very cool! Glad to hear it. work really does take on a different kind of importance once flying starts! Go fly!

[@tontar]

It happens quick, but at 2:16 look in the upper left corner. That is a huge bald eagle flapping past. That day there were several baldies flying with us, and while they look small because of the wide angle lens, they were actually quite large and extremely close in with us, circling and thermaling in the same lift. How totally awesome to be able to fly with such birds!

[@steviewonderwind]

Very cool. Love how you ended with the invite but left it up to him to find your number.

[@LestWeForget2012]

@tontar Had my first lesson yesterday. OMG! I'm in love!! I had 4 "flights" attached to the tow rope. Just wow. Rained out today. Hoping for more tomorrow, but may rain again. The rest of the week is fun and sun. Every damn day! I may not go back to work. hahaha

[@4kipiani4]

hello my friend. beautiful flights. where is this amazing landscape?

[@jpsdelta]

Hi Aron Great Video one of the best...I ever seen. From Smoke man (jp). We have meet in Switzerland at the Vertigo acro contest. I was fixing the smoke bombs on every gliders, except yours...Hope your doing fine, and keep on filming's, every one who see this vid will start hang gliding the next day...

[@HangGlidingSouthAfrica]

I'm will be that guy... this November... 2 weeks in Wilderness... it can't get here fast enough...

[@yedaki76]

Really cool video, editing and of course flying! The perfect title, as I want to be "that guy" -> you! Guess I have to keep practicing but one day that dream will come true! Thanks for sharing these perfect moments, I especially enjoyed the footage of the loops ... awesome camera and performance!

[@tontar]

Oh, by the way, I want to point out that the glider with the yellow leading edge is my wonderful wife, Kerie, and the glider with the all white top is our buddy Rob (a new pilot this year).

[@tontar]

@aerospin1 Thanks! At high speeds and low angles of attack, the flow over the bottom surface sucks the bottom down near the leading edges. Just like that Bernoulli trick blowing over paper causes it to suck to the airflow. It happens even with a positive angle of attack because of the leading edge thickness; the air hits it and is deflected both up and down, like blasting a round pole with a water hose. Behind that downward bulging, the lower surface does go back to following the relative flow.

[@designbydave]

Nice nose cam, got the whole wing in the shot!

[@tontar]

Great place! It was spectacular flying yesterday too!

[@airwolfgunner]

great vid! one of the best I've seen yet

[@tontar]

This is shot with ContourHD. You can find it on the vholdr site. Super easy to use and is very small and light weight. Perfect for Hg videos.

[@pdutube]

Oh Man what an AWESOME video! Loved the air-to-air footage! No champagne though?

[@manometre]

Trés belle video .Félicitation , bon choix de musique

[@tontar]

Go for it! It really is way more exciting than videos can show. Literally chase an eagle or hawk, how much better can it (a sport) get than that?

[@tontar]

Good to be worried about stuff like that. :-) Something interesting about loops is that if doing a loop straight over seems different from the wingovers one has been doing previously, then it's probably not a good idea to try to loop. It's a big subject I'd be happy to talk about elsewhere, but essentially doing straight over loops should be a very small change from the wingovers leading up to them in difficulty. Small progressive steps are better than big, unknown steps.

[@tontar]

What thoughts? Hmmm, what a great sport this is, how lucky we are to be able to do it, and this is about as close to bird flight as it gets. Very cool, very fun, and a lot of good people who do it and are great to hang around with.

[@SeattleRingHunter]

BRAVO great edits full of passion to be in the air!!! :)

[@asher4897]

that was fantastic flying thank you for that clip.

[@dimitrosg]

Greta video, what thoughts rush through your head the first time and even after?

[@tontar]

@lti12 Not exactly. I was sponsored by Red Bull, for quite a number of years. Their support was most unusual in the States, as very few companies seem interested in sponsoring hang gliding, and was incredibly appreciated. However, I always acquired my own gear.

[@huntedFX]

how much of a drop do you need? do you have to hike all day to get high enough or can you go off a barn roof or something.

[@msdacu]

Nice film. I want to start filming too for some time now, and also taking pictures. I have a hang glider camera mount but I mainly used a Sony cybershot picture camera for photos and filming. Can you tell me what kind of cameras do you use for this kind of quality? the name of camera and the resolution? Thanks. Awesome loops, maybe someday I will try that too.

[@tontar]

Hey, Smoke Man! How are you?! Glad you like the video. Come on over to this side of the big pond and help me make the next ones! :-)

[@johnmatylonek]

Dreams are not given to you. They must be earned with patience, determination, focus, maturity. Teaching hang gliding is a very challenging task....so even imparting the dream to others requires equal patience, determination, focus. That is why they are so few instructors. You get what you are willing give. I used to drive five hours from Philadelphia to North Carolina for my lessons.

[@tontar]

Very cool, and thanks! The music does rock, doesn't it! :-)

[@shaggypants]

Great video! Where were you flying? Looks like a sweet site!

[@tontar]

@208bro Wow, thanks Gary! Discipline and hard work = the most fun! Be safe, and if you ever get out this way, let's go flying, eh?

[@IANRPARKER]

@tontar Hi. Got my first soaring flights last sunday and I havn't come down yet!

[@guidines83]

Great video! Where is that location? Any HG schools near by? Thanks, cheers from Argentina

[@Zoidberg227]

Hey, I wanna be that guy too ... ! Alas, right now, no funds, and no instructors listed on the USHPA website that are less than two hours from me. Seems kind of odd for southeast Washington, surrounded by hills and ridges and thermals ...

[@petethewrist]

Every one says they want to be that guy but it is all pravado, most just do not have what it takes: A want to do it and the guts to do it. Mind you if you have the first then the second will come.

[@tontar]

@sorenladegaard1 The one on the keel is a Sony handicam, It tilted and got next to nothing. Now I use two ContourHD cameras, and it's a lot easier to get good footage.

[@soaringroadtrip]

Great video! Anybody know if Nicholas Cage ever learned to fly HG? If so, please post some comments on how it worked out! Thanks

[@sportvirus1]

fantastic, and a nice Nicolas

[@N21X]

Nice video! Looks like a lot of fun. :)

[@aerospin1]

Magnificient ! Making people dream that all there is. Strange how you can see the lower surface close to the leading edge flaping @ 4:02 though By the way your pictures are the best

[@SanDiegoHangGliders]

Nice video!

[@eliade66]

@tontar You can copy and paste the title of the video: BAMBI NATALE IN DELTAPLANO

[@tontar]

Dreams are free to anyone and everyone willing to open their minds. The realization of those dreams is where all the work comes in. Having dreams is the easy part, making those dreams come true takes dedication and effort, and depending on what the dream is, money. :-)

[@ericoschmitt]

I hope he went for it. I did. Best thing ever!

[@tontar]

@eliade66 Ah, very fun video! I don't know what they are saying, but I do understand the laughing and then the burping! Thanks for sharing, looked like a fun flight, filled with a lot of giggling.

[@88skullkid]

are there any places in oklahoma or near here where i can take lesons?

[@markprange4386]

Yes. Oklahoma has hang gliding.

[@scottmcmurray49]

How do you get back to your car?

[@tontar]

Dreams are free to anyone and everyone willing to open their minds. The realization of those dreams is where all the work comes in. Having dreams is the easy part, making those reams come true takes dedication and effort, and depending on what the dream is, money. :-)

[@jameswest122]

A true HG Classic

[@steveokneivo1]

has nick ever called you yet?

[@Lawrence7of9]

Excellent, great intro of course from Nicholas Cage too! Cheers,

[@hawkairxc]

wooooooow I'd like an autograph of both :-)

[@brianc7528]

Where is this?

[@tontar]

No hiking for us, we drive to the top of the mountains.

[@tontar]

@4kipiani4 Dog Mountain, outside of Morton, Washington.

[@LimpJimmy]

Cooooooooooool stuff!

[@tontar]

Sems to me your psychic powers need quite a bit of fine tuning. The pilots I was "bothering" were my wife, and a couple other flying buddies, who were not bothered at all. That's the way we fly. Whether you noticed them looking or not isn't a concern. They know how to use their eyes, they see and saw just fine. As far as your other insights go, there's no need to debate. I've seen your posting style and feel honored to get insulted by a world class insulter.

[@thesupreme950]

I wish I was brave enough to do this. Maybe one day.

[@petethewrist]

If you truely wish to do it you will find the guts..

[@Rick_Cavallaro]

@@petethewrist it's really not about guts. It's about preparation. I know plenty of HG pilots that are afraid of heights. But when you have a wing and the proper preparation, it's all good.

[@tontar]

@eliade66 The link is not working

[@Zo0MaxDd]

how can we talk??? email or facebook??

[@FlyingFelix1]

At times it is!

[@glendeco]

Dig it! Thank you.

[@hawkxxx111]

Love It ,, fantastisk !! : )

[@tontar]

Not quite, but a close second. ;-)

[@StevenFinucane]

Awesome dream

[@tontar]

@IANRPARKER Yeah, so what's the word these days? You get on it yet? :-) Daylight's burning!

[@KabalaKook]

Let´s just keep forwarding this video until it reaches Nicholas Cage !! He is right!! HG is way too cool!!!

[@tontar]

@TurekPolski Land Of Promise, by Sacred Spirit

[@tontar]

Send me a private note and i can help you out.

[@eliade66]

Dear Tontar, About landing with a bottle of Champagne, you may enjoy this although you may not understand the speech: watch?v=Hm-bE0nDIg8&feature=channel Thanks for your beatiful videos and cheers!

[@IANRPARKER]

@tontar Made my first soaring flights last Sunday see my latest upload.