#269 Navigating Doubts with Violeta Jimenez

Violeta Jiminez has become one of the most elite competition paragliders in the world in a relatively short period of time. Her first World Cup was only 5 years ago in Aksaray, Turkey flying a Zeno. Last year she was on the podium in the OVERALL, again in Turkey, this time in Çameli. But it's been anything but easy. Violeta came to flying from a background in ballet and ultra running and as Will Gadd says, coming to flying from non-gravity sports can be not just challenging but risky. In the early years Violeta's desire was well ahead of her skills and she had a number of incidents and accidents, and one particularly violent accident that required a long mental and physical rehab.

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#269 Navigating Doubts with Violeta Jimenez is an episode from Cloudbase Mayhem Podcast by Gavin McClurg.

This episode is 1:03:53 long.

This episode was published on Mar 30, 2026.

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