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• http://youtu.be/DMaBss-W_Ys  Making a BHL
• Paragliding introduction day new York Discuss the site and the practice.  Notice the lack of disturbing windfield helicities.
• http://mavericklsa.com/
• Paragliding Disaster Events - Part I.mpg
• Paragliding Disaster Events - Part II
• Paragliding Worst Nightmare !
• http://www.adrenaline.com.es/Adrenaline_Paragliders/HOME_BATLITEingles.html   Single-layer canopy gliding kite
• http://www.youtube.com/user/bobflyman 
• Paragliding tandem crash 2003
• http://www.cometclones.com/RickAnswers.htm
     I love that video, taken of an obviously old, high-end paraglider in gusty conditions, with a pilot that didn't control his canopy surge. Of course it's gonna end in disaster, just as a HG launch would if it had a pilot with poor launch skills flying a glider that was beyond his/her skill level in gusty conditions. Rootbeer Wyatt
  Hi Rootbeer,
     It's easy to try to impress your peers with your know-it-all logic but it falls flat in the face of the death of a highly experienced paragliding instructor launching into a small thermal. This isn't an isolated incident. This example is just one of hundreds of paragliding takeoffs that have resulted in fatalities over the past decade. If it mattered, I could tell you that this was a nice day to fly a hang glider and that I have launched various models of hang gliders dozens of times from that exact spot. I have even encountered similar small thermals on takeoff that have required added roll, pitch and yaw correction which was instinctive, easy and not particularly memorable. My main concern was that, if a wingtip touched the ground, a ground-loop could result in a bent down-tube. Not the death of the pilot for God's sake! But how hang gliders behave is entirely irrelevant to paragliding. You paraglider pilots do not understand this. You seem to think that there is some comparison to be made between paragliders and hang gliders. You are wrong. If you attempt to launch a paraglider from a mountain, hang gliders don't have anything to do with it. And you do not understand this fact: paragliders often collapse at takeoff and kill their pilots. Unless all you paraglider pilots are unbelievably stupid, this problem would have been fixed through training long ago. But it hasn't been fixed at all! So now the best you can do is blame the pilot. We hang glider pilots have been watching you paraglider pilots blame your fellow pilots over and over - for decades! Don't you get it? There is something wrong with your wings! They kill you! You really need to give this some serious thought. Get an airframe. It's the only thing that makes sense. Join the living.
  Rick Masters