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Mark 'Wagga' Watts (uk) joined the AXIS UK team in 2007
Mark became British XC league champion in 1998 and 2003
and was 3rd in 2002 and 2007.
In the British Championships Mark has rarely been out of the
top 3 and was vice-champion in 2004.
Best Result in FAI Cat 2 Open – 1st British Open Laragne 2003,
2nd Killarney Classic 2008, 2nd British Open Mayrhofen 2005 and 3rd British Open Àger 2006
In the 1st World Air Games in 1997 ( FAI Cat 1 event), Mark finished 5th overall and has just been placed 17th In the 2008 European Championship in Serbia.

Kai Coleman (uk) joined the AXIS UK team in 2007.
Kai began Flying in 1998 and became British XC league
Champion in 2002, 2nd 2003, and 2nd again in 2004.
British Open Distance record -190.9km - held from 2004 till 2007
Best Result in British Championship – 4th overall in 2006
Best comp result – 6th in British Open Portugal 2006 and 6th in British Open UK 2007
Best Task Result – 2nd in Pre-World Championship in G.V. Brazil 2004

"I really enjoy the unusual places that paragliding has taken me, such as Mexico and Brazil. I keep very busy with 3 little children and a successful small electronic design and manufacture business. I am competitive in the sports that I play, including squash and of course paragliding"

Kelly Farina (uk) joined the AXIS UK team in 2007
Kelly finished 4th overall in the British championship in 2005,
securing a place on the National Team.
Flying a huge amount in his home town of Mayrhofen, Austria, where he operates a guiding company, Kelly trains with some of the World's best pilots all year, every year!
Best Results in Cat 2 Open - 3rd Overall Dutch Open 2005 & 4th in British Open 2005.

"I love flying paragliders in weird and wonderful places, places I'd probably never go to otherwise. Racing and flying XC with friends has got to be some of the best memories I have"

Tom Payne (uk) joins the AXIS UK team in 2008
Tom was best British newcomer in the Nationals in 2007
2nd serial class British Open St André 2007
6th overall French XC League (CFD) 2006-7
Currently 5th overall French XC League (CFD) 2007-8.

He has just been selected for the British Bleriot team, the annual 'grudge' match between the rising stars of hangliding and paragliding from the UK and France.
Tom lives in Geneva, Switzerland and flies in the Northern French Alps.
He flies a Mercury 08 XS which he chose for its excellent balance of
performance and safety.
Tom's passion is big mountain XC and you can often find him at cloudbase over Annecy heading elsewhere on full bar, camera in hand!

Nicky Moss (uk) joined the AXISpara factory team in 2006.
Spanish Female Champion 2008, Female Champion
British Open Àger 2006, Australian Open female Champion
2004 & Himalayan Open female Champion 2004.
Member of the British team since 2004.
Nicky lives in Spain, spends part of the winter in Australia and summer travelling throughout Europe to fly.

"Paragliding has taken me into the most amazing scenery and allowed me to share the air with those who truly below there. Flights with birds are always the most memorable for me, but there is nothing like the feeling of flying XC with friends, laughing and singing together at cloudbase"

Mark Graham (uk) joins the AXIS UK XC team in 2008
Mark consistantly performs well in cross country events
regularly placing in the top 3 of the sports and serial classes
He flew the longest distance by a DHV1/2, EN-B, Afnor
standard glider in the UK XC league 2007 on his EN-B Vega II as
well as clocking up 6 100km+ flights through the 2007 season.

Gordon Bishop (uk) joins the AXIS UK XC team in 2008.
Gordon won the DHV 1/2, EN-B class of the 2007 XC league
sponsored by AXIS UK and chose the Vega II as his reward.
We are looking forward to watching him climb the ranking in 2008.

Paul Lawrence (uk) joins the AXIS UK XC team in 2008.
Paul is a rising star from the UK home of cross country flying,
the Long Mynd
We are looking forward to dragging him 'over the back'
and up the ranking in the 2008 league.
Paul flys the "axispara.co.uk" Vega II, so he will be easy to recognise at cloudbase ;-)