Wow! This was truly remarkable! I teach High School and watching this just made me realize just how great you are at what you do. Teaching is indeed a challenge. However, your skills are even more impressive since you are teaching them lifesaving skills. Well done Mr. Shanze! I know this video was filmed years ago, but I am just now seeing it. I am sure by now he is well on his way to being the next one in line to start creating more super pilots. Please tell him congratulations. I will be signing up for your training next summer. I look forward to meeting you in person and shaking Troy's hand. I have only flown a few times because I was self taught and got freaked when my wing collapsed on my 3rd flight at about 20 feet up. Needless to say, I hit the ground hard and luckily did not break anything. I haven't tried since. The winds were too high and I was also using my uncle's wing, which was outdated. I'd really like to try again.

@DellSchanze

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Yes SUPER Troy is absolutely incredible and just set a world record as the youngest pilot in history to do a wing tip drag. He is one of my assistant instructors. He also set the record as the youngest tandem instructor when he was just 13 years old. He has never crashed like that as the skill and right gear truly make a huge difference. Just call 800-707-2525 to reserve a spot. We have a total blast at SUPER training.

Seeing things like that is always so inspiring! Keep up the fun!

I can only wish I have an instructor like yours Troy. You are fantastic!

Greetings from England.....despite all the negativity about you on the internet, I must say I think you are a Super Dad & enjoy watching your super training videos, Troy has turned into a terrific pilot & you’ve got your daughter up there as well, super fantastic family !! Peace & safety to you all !

Incredible!!🤙🏼

what a lovely boy

I wish my dad was like you bud. I mean , I wish he would have taught me how to fly... I wouldn't trade my paw for nothing. But it's Kool to see this kinda content. Gotta admire.

That's awesome!

Very inspiring.

This is so, damn, good! :-) Loving it! So, here we have a near future champion!!! ;-) ;-) ;-)

If he can do it, i can do it too! You're a very lucky kid to have such a father ;) Greetings from the Netherlands, Jelmer ;)

That's an 8sm Speedmaster Rocket and the wind is blowing 12-16mph. The 8sm is pretty tricky because it is quite twitchy. So it is actually quite difficult. The 14sm is much easier but it would drag him away in that high of winds. It is pretty fun to watch him kite on his own like that. Too cool.

Super Cool!

Phenomenal!!

The best parents in the world.👍😍

Nice job, especially with that strong wind (the trees give it away) =)

I agree with you on teaching the younger ones to fly a unit you could put in the trunk of your car or pickup, because, when WROL/SHTF happens, we need that asset to assess a situation from the air and convey that info to the Ham Radio communications people along with Medical caregivers as well! I've got low-level FEMA certification, but, I need to get training on the PPG unit I bought years ago. Being in Ohio, I may go with FlightJunkies.com. They're just closer.

@DellSchanze

10 жыл бұрын

Just in our last class you can actually see a guy who first went to flightjunkies. They don't have any instructors, capt kirk thinks chucking you into the sky without teaching you how to control the thing is training. It is a nightmare. Absolutely don't even think about going there. If you want to do the things you see in our videos you need to get the same gear and training we use. It is really sad the mess those like kirk have made of the industry. He isn't even a pilot let alone an instructor and has never had a day of proper training in his life but is out there pretending to be an expert. I actually witnessed a "demo" he did in Florida where he flew into a rotor and crashed right in front of those he was trying to prove his expertness to. His whole Fresh Breeze exploded as the cage flexed back into the prop and self destructed. So it is really critical in this sport to get with real people that actually do know what they are doing. Just watch our over 550 videos and don't make the huge mistake of thinking for a second that you can do the same thing without getting the right gear and training. Call 800-707-2525. It's your LIFE.

who else was expecting a massive gush of qind and him just fly off

Get one of those 100 ft dog leash`s with a brake then you can go fly a kid LOL-- No it should hold I think change the clasp to a side screw chain link then they can feel the height and you control where they go .Just a thought .

This is really incredible. There are so many little pieces to glider control it is just amazing to see SUPER Troy pick it up that quickly and all the little details and reactions that make it possible. Just amazing. SUPER training totally rules.

Dell isn't going to need to train the Golden Knights or 82d Airborne. He's training his own platoon.

Flying is awesome IF you get the right gear & training. For your weight I would get a Flat Top Ninja & XL K2. That will lift over 600 lbs no problem at all. You can even see my video on youtube of a 230 lb guy taking a 304 lb passenger tandem on the XL K2. Works great:).

lol, I remember that focused determination as a kid. awesome

Right on Lil' Dude! (>*

Awesome! Nice job dude. Blue skies

This should be what it's all about. Learn a skill and pass it on to our youth. Dell your head, heart and mind are in the right spot for sure and thank you for all you do for this profession and sport.

Where it's available

cool little dude.....bless him ,he could be a world champ next

Muy bueno. Cuando tenga 18?....................

Troy, you do a great job .

What size wing is that Dell

you're an AWESOME SUPER DAD

I want to buy same glider for my baby

I need small glider

Fantastic! Is he flying now as of 2021?

@pinevalleyoutdoors3788

3 жыл бұрын

Yes he is.... Very good pilot...

@DellSchanze

3 жыл бұрын

Yes he is actually #4 in the world now with his cousin as #2 and his dad as #1. Learn from the best and you can become truly incredible very quickly.

Is there any safety such as helmet or something for this sport?

@DellSchanze

2 жыл бұрын

No it makes zero sense to wear a helmet on a hot beach all day. Do you wear a helmet when you go jogging on the beach? Jogging is much more dangerous than kiting a small glider. So it's pretty silly to suggest people wear a helmet on sand. In fact it's more dangerous as the lines can snag on their helmet and snap their neck. So they are much better off without a helmet for kiting.

Could you tell me where you got your lessons/gear?

I was thinking the same as parapensioner. I never clip in without a helmet on. Some hard obstacles to get dragged into in the video. Nice skills though.

Hi! Does anyone know where Dell and everyone are in this video? Florida? I loved the video from a few years ago from the Panama City (FL) fly-in for powered paragliders. It wasn't Dell's video, it was filmed by the local staff but Dell stole the show!

uppa lad!

Nice and funny training. Is this boy your child? You have to be careful otherwise your , family flyes away, then you're alone.

what kind of wing is it?

@DellSchanze

6 жыл бұрын

It's the speedmaster. Just call to order one. 800-707-2525.

Hello, Troy, - Greetings from Northern Ireland. A great display of ground handling skills in what looked like tricky conditions! However, please ask your dad about a crash helmet, as some day you may well loose your footing, & you won't be on a nice sandy beach....... Take care.

Way to go Troy! I hope to reach your level of coolness Dell. (One Dad to another.) Blue Skies (>*

Fukin Awesome, great job kido!

Who's going to be the next generation of criminals, if you keep teaching children about flying? Oh the Humanity! >:)

me too

Do you have someone who has gone through your training program , who teaches in Australia. After watching your videos I feel like your the yoda of paramotors . I don't really want to learn from anyone else lol . If you have anyone in Melbourne Australia please let me know dell. Cheers mate

@DellSchanze

7 жыл бұрын

No there is simply no replacement for my sheer level of experience. So it's worth every bit to just come to the US and take SUPER training directly. While I can turn people into absolutely incredible pilots there is still just no replacement for my level of experience and speed in knowing what is going to happen before it happens giving time to give proper input to the student with enough warning for them to fix the problem. You just don't want to train anywhere else.

That's why you need to train with experienced pilot that know you are more likely to snag lines on your helmet and have it wrench your neck that to need the helmet for impact protection. You are also more likely to get sun stroke and dehydration from a hot helmet on a hot beach than needing the helmet to protect you. That glider is capable of 40+ mph with that loading. If you are not an expert you shouldn't be giving advice. No helmets are not the be all of safety in this sport.

Enjoyed the video, but good grief, get a Microphone Windscreen Protector.

I wish my parents cared enough to give me something I could use.

Why a speed wing first? XD

@DellSchanze

7 жыл бұрын

Because it allows people to practice the basic skills without getting drug all over the place or popped off the ground with every gust. Plus it allows people to kite in much much higher winds so you have a much wider range of wind conditions you can use for training. Then as their skills progress we move them to larger and larger gliders. Then once they get flying it goes the other way. They start with larger gliders and work their way back down to flying smaller and smaller gliders. We have tons of different gear at SUPER training for every stage of training.

@DellSchanze

6 жыл бұрын

Kiting is not the key. SUPER training is. You can kite for years and years but you still won't be able to do what SUPER students can do because without all the correct and perfected details of glider control you just end up practicing things wrong and backwards. I get this question a lot actually. People think they can just buy a wing and start practicing but that would be like buying a karate GI and trying to practice karate before you get any lessons. It just doesn't work. Come do it right like SUPER Troy and then like SUPER Troy you can also have truly incredible skills like his: kzread.info/dash/bejne/hYqYxsSDYsK7cbQ.html sadly far too many totally ruin the sport for themselves by doing things like trying to kite on their own. Please come get SUPER training BEFORE you try to kite any wing at all. Very few who do anything other then this end up totally ruining the sport for themselves and they simply never recover. Call me at 800-707-2525.

@DellSchanze

6 жыл бұрын

You can't afford NOT to get SUPER training. Lose control of the glider and drop it in your prop and you can do $2500-$6500 damage over and over and over. So it's completely absurd to try to pretend $2500 for training is too much. All those who try to skimp on SUPER training end up ruining the whole sport for themselves as they trash so much gear they can't afford to fix it and they just end up quitting the sport because it just isn't fun trashing gear. So no don't even think about pretending it costs less to try to learn from a video. That's like watching a bruce lee movie and then challenging 20 armed terrorists to a fight.

@DellSchanze

6 жыл бұрын

Poor people are only poor because of foolish decisions like pretending they can skip SUPER training to save money. Then they destroy their gear and spend more repairing it then it would have cost to buy all brand new gear and get the best training in the world. Or like the guy in Virginia who thought he could save a few hundred by getting a crappy paramotor instead of the Flat Top. First time he fired up the Aviator PPG pile of crap he went right through the flimsy netting into the prop shredding his hand, ripping his thumb off and tearing the nerve out of his arm all the way up to his shoulder. He lost use of his entire arm just because he thought he could save a few bucks ignoring the best pilot and instructor in the world. Foolishness is what makes people poor. Those who work smarter and harder know it pays to always get the very best right up front. if you can't afford the best then save up until you can. Those with Flat Tops & SUPER skills can make all sorts of money in zillions of different ways because they will have a truly incredible aircraft with unlimited possibilities. Those who get crap gear and skip SUPER training end up with nothing but a hole in their pocked where their money all went in the toilet. Just like James for example. He took SUPER training but then thought he could save a few bucks getting blackhawk gear. They told him it was so much better then the Flat Top and more powerful but when he got it and tried to launch his 250 lb body at 6000 ft where he lives he literally couldn't get the blackhawk crap off the ground. He tried over and over and over destroying props and cage pieces and everything else in the process but the crap gear just didn't have enough power or lift to even get him off the ground. He lost thousands and thousands having to pay for all the repairs to the crap and then dumping it for less then half of what he paid. He ended up getting a Flat Top and now flies over the 12,000 ft mountains no problem but he lost a fortune getting scammed by blackhawk first. One should learn form the mistakes of others so they don't have to go through the same thing.

@DellSchanze

4 жыл бұрын

@takeitindballs Yes I started out teaching karate for many years. Very observant.

This is my dream... and they get it for free... why can't someone give me this oppertinity?

Don't give advice on a sport you are not an expert in. Helmets can get tangled in the lines and snap your neck. It isn't the be all of safety in this sport. Leave the advice giving to the experts please.

Bodhi Tripathi you get the SUPER training and all the best gear from www.u-turnusa.com there is a link to it in the description of this video. It's absolutely critical that you only go to U-Turn USA because it is the only paragliding/paramotoring school in the world that make sure students completely learn to fly the glider BEFORE you get into the sky. It is a total nightmare elsewhere as others will literally chuck you into the sky without a bit of training and no ability at all to truly control the glider. So if you can't get SUPER training you really do not want to get into the sport because your experience will be nothing at all like what you see in our videos. The gear is just as life & death critically important. Call 800-707-2525 and talk to the experts. The most important thing you can do in this sport is LOOK at the skill levels of whom you are talking to as you do not want to take advice from the wrong people.