![Charlie Ormond in LEAF2](https://supair.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/charlie-fly.jpeg)
Portrait - Charlie Ormond
CHARLIE ORMONT
Can you introduce yourself in a few words?
CO: My name is Charlie Ormond, I am 17 years old and I live in Le Grand Bornand. I am passionate about the outdoors and the sensations it brings. In this environment I practice mountain biking, freeskiing and paraglider which allows me to see the nature differently.
![Charlie Ormond](https://supair.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/supairphoto-scaled-1-768x703.jpg)
When and how did you learn paraglider ?
CO: My learning of paraglider started when my father took me, my brother and my sister in a tandem at the age of 5, then followed quite a few inflation sessions with him during my childhood and finally in July 2018 my initiation course with the Airlinks team (I was 15). Since that day, my father is a kind of instructor for me, he helps me to progress.
![Charlie Ormond](https://supair.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/charlie-768x576.jpeg)
What is your practice at paraglider ?
CO: My practice at paraglider today is focused on learning to cross country, making transitions and improving my positioning within the air mass.
![Charlie Ormond](https://supair.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/charlie-fly-768x512.jpg)
Do you have a special memory of flight to share with us?
CO: I have quite a few great memories in this sport but a few come to mind first, I think of the sunset flights to be held in High from Le Lachat to Le Grand-Bornand as well as Morocco to the Eagle's Nest. But one of my best was my first small cross country flight in July 2019 from Grand-Bornand to the Aravis pass and back along the Aravis range to the Pointe Percée. This was a special moment especially because of the Aravis range which gave us the illusion of being in the high mountains, as well as the presence of gliders flying around me.
![Charlie Ormond in LEAF2](https://supair.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/charlie-fly-768x768.jpeg)
What are your upcoming projects (paraglider and outside paraglider) ?
CO: For paraglider, I really want to go on expeditions to other countries, do cross-country but really try to do a bit of everything to diversify my point of view on this sport. I'm passionate about skiing and I really want to do combos like the precursors. I would like to do externally at paraglider of the video. I'm a student at Saint Joseph (Thônes) in the audiovisual cinema option and I'm thinking of studying audio-design afterwards.
You can find me on Instagram @charlie.ormond!