Rambling Resources

Introduction

This page is intended to hold paragliding information and resources I have collected and/or written over the years. The information contained here may be of help to aspirant cross-country and competition pilots but does not pretend to be any kind of authority on the subject.  Feel free to comment, contribute, propose material, request and/or improve the content.

Magazine Contributions

Competition Flying: Part 1 of 3 - Get Going
Competition Flying: Part 2 of 3 - Going Mental
Competition Flying: Part 3 of 3 - Going for Gold
Safety in Paragliding: Curious Creatures

Safety in Paragliding: Cognitive Bias

Mumbo Jumbo: The Paragliding Brotherhood

Recommended Reading

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions  by Dan Ariely

Flow in Sports by Susan Jackson & Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Perception, Cognition and Decision Training by Joan N. Vickers

Clinical Sport Psychology by Frank Gardner

Sports Psychology Basics: For Serious Players and Coaches by Andrew Caruso

Sport Hypnosis by Donald R. Liggett

Winning the Mind Game: Using Hypnosis in Sport Psychology by John H. Edgette and Tim Rowan

Motivation & Inspiration

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation?language=en

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_researches_happiness

http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/The-Psychology-of-Self-Motivati