For the next while, we will be operating Wings & Waves from Eva's house at 26 Beresford Street, Bayswater.

The double garage and the loft space above will be set up for office, service and sales. In the new years, we will be moving to new and very exciting premises. Watch this space!!

Spring Flying: Jeff Ripley at Moirs Hill on 20th August

Now, that winter is nearly over and with the first XC (attempts) under our belts, it is time to crank up the flying season 2011!

We suggest to start in style, with a OPEN DAY, BBQ and free tandems for our students

Saturday, 3rd September 2011
hopefully at Maioro training site

All our existing and former students can sign up a couple of their mates, new people, sign up for any PG course to be in for a free tandem flight with our NZ Champion pilots!

We have just published a Wings & Waves Facebook page! 2011, here we come. I am new to this concept, but apparently it is essential that you visit the page and click "like" on the main page. Only once a certain number of people have done that, the page will get its official username.

Join us at the loft this Saturday for some drinks, hot food, music and a chat. After some spells of bad weather and missing out on the annual club event at the Paeroas, it must be high time to get together.

Saturday, 11th June, from 6 pm at our loft in Bayswater

BYO drinks, we are cooking hot food. Hope to see you there!

Lots of gliders - Barry Baxter

I hate admitting it, but it seems we are at the end of the summer which is when we usually run our photo competition.

Last year we had fantastic entries, each showing different aspects of what people like about their sport. I loved the diversity of the different pictures. Have a look at the 2010 PG and kiting winners.

With lots of people owning GoPros and other in-flight cameras now and getting rather proficient with video editing software, we are extending this competition to video clips.

Reuben hates counting stock and we have a lot of that, both new and second hand, so here we go:

10% off everything on stock

50% off last season's kites

15% off new kites

25% off all GIN accessories

??% on new paragliders - make an offer!

Laszlo and his mates had great fun during a speed flying event on the South Island in the end of last year. They flew of Treble Cone and many other sites in the area. Here is some great footage.

Laszlo is a sky diver who lives and flies in Methven, near Christchurch on the South Island. Together with Tux, who runs the Methven Sky diving center, he has been developing conversion courses for sky divers to get into foot-launched speed flying.

Once or twice a year, he organises speed flying meetings. The next one is at Temple Basin in September 2011. Contact us if you interested in joining.

NZ Champions: Grant Middendorf, Evan Lamberton, Eva Walton-Keim, Reuben Muir, Jeff Ripley

After the first round of the NZ Nationals in Canungra in November, and Round 2 of the NZ Nationals in Wanaka early January, we have new 2011 NZ Champions:

Grant Middendorf, on his brand-new GIN 2liner proto, won the men's competition.

Eva Walton-Keim, on her GIN BoomerangGTO, won the women's competition and came 4th in the men's (3rd Kiwi) which is an all time woman's record. She also had the best Kiwi result for serial gliders, only Ian, a Australian pilot on the same glider, also a GIN GTO was just in front of her.

The Wings & Waves Team, with Reuben Muir, Jeff Ripley, Evan Lamberton and Eva Walton-Keim won the NZ Provincial Paragliding Trophy.

Reuben and I are back from the Nationals and working and teaching again full time. The weather at the nationals was marginal with only 2 days flying in the week. We will post a report very soon. As a pre-view: our Gin pilot Grant Middendorf in new NZ Champ, Wings & Waves' Eva is ladies' champ again with an all time record placing in the men's competition. More soon.

The current NZ ranking ladder of all NZ competition pilots has been up-dated after the last competition in Canungra. 

NZ Competition Ladder as per 22 / 11 / 2010 

1 Reuben Muir Gin GTO 795 Wings & Waves Instructor 

2 Evan Lamberton Gin GTO 794 Wings & Waves Instructor 

3 Jeff Ripley Gin Boom5 763 Wings & Waves Instructor 

4 Grant Middendorf Gin Boom5 757 Wings & Waves sponsored pilot

5 Mark Hardman UP Edge 760

6 Eva Walton-Keim Gin GTO 636 Wings & Waves Instructor 

With a keen group of PG 2 pilots lining up to enjoy their first summer of paragliding, we are starting a new series or PG2 theory , starting

Thursday, 16th November 2010, 6.30pm at our loft in Bayswater.

Winning W&W Team

A week at the Canungra Cup in Australia turned out to be fantastic fun and a great success for the Wings & Waves Team. 6 good tasks in the competition had the Wings & Waves Gin team win the 1st place against other NZ and all the Australian teams! The team consisted of (from left) W&W instructors Evan Lamberton and Eva Walton Gin GTOs, Grant Middendorf on an Gin Boomerang 5, W&W instructor Reuben Muir on a Gin GTO proto, and Derek Divers on a Gin Rebel Race.

Eva also took first place in the women's ranking. Have a look at our photos or read the rest of the story below.