Hangai Sadao
CEO & founder

Nguyen Ngoc Huyen (Wendy)
school executive manager

trinh thi diem hong (Dau)
Customer Support


Ogisawa Kaoru
Instructor

Okada Naohisa
IPPA SIV instructor

Tadano Shoichiro
Instructor

Thông tin chi tiết

Hangai Sadao
CEO & founder

He is a professional climber and mountain guide with have many adventures across Japan and French Alps.He has dedicated most of his young age to nature, and the mountains are like a second home to | him. After an expedition to the Himalayas, he became a professional guide. In 1985, while visiting France, a long-time climbing mate – Jean-Marc Birilin introduced him to the world of paragliding. Instantly, it became a new chapter of his life, he fell in love with paragliding and brought it back to Japan. A while after, his COO Paragliding School is one of the soonest schools that have gotten the authority from the Japanese Government to teach and train people from over Japan and abroad students coming to learn paragliding.

He is also a supervisor of the Japan Paraglider Association (JPA). Hangai is real entrepreneur, who has many dreams and lives to make them a reality. His next ultimate mission is) lives to make them a reality. His next ultimate mission is to make a positive change in the paragliding of Vietnam.

 

NGUYEN NGOC HUYEN (WENDY)
school executive manager

Hing responsible for general management of Uni-Skyfriends Paraglider School. Wendy is the executive manager of the school. She is an adventurous person with a fearless spirit and has taken a wide range of extreme sports such as trekking, marathon, scuba diving, and of course paragliding in Skyfriends.

Besides, she also plays the vital role of internal manager and takes on being the connector between Skyfriend and customers and partners.

 

trinh thi diem hong (dau)
pilot

Ms. Hong (DAU), A tiny girl with a sheer will. She went to Japan as a paraglider repair technician. Especially, she try to learn Paragliding after working to make her dream of flying in the sky. She usually hiking to the take off summit with 14kg harness backpack and fly.

 

 

Ogisawa Kaoru
Instructor

Mr. Ogisawa Kaoru switch to paragliding in 1989
1995 First podium at Paragliding World Cup France
Results: Red Bull X-Alps 13th in 2009 5th in 2007
Paragliding World Cup 2002 Korea Tournament 2nd Place 1995 France Tournament 3rd Place
Paragliding World Championship 2003 Portugal 4th place
* Since 1993, consecutive appearances as a representative of Japan
Paragliding Japan Championship Winner (1994, 2003)
Ragliding Japan League overall winner (1991, 92, 98, 99, 2000) 

 

Ogisawa Kaoru
IPPA SIV Instructor

Naohisa Okada, from Saitama Prefecture
JPA supervisor (qualified to test instructors)
Passed the 1st Teacher Examination Top
JPA Performance Instructor
FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) Senior Parachute Trigger
JPA Paraglider Rescue Level 3 Certification
Writes or edits all books and DVDs published or supervised by the Japan Paragliding Association, including the “Paragliding Latest Technique Book”.
2013Red Bull X-Alps Team Japan2
Participated in 2018 Domoliti Super Fly

Tadano Shoichiro
Instructor

1986 First Paraglider flight at Tottori Sand Dunes.
1990 Began paragliding in earnest.
1995 February Australian Championship 6th place, August PWC first participation.
1996 Participated in national and international competitions with support from Aerotact.
1997 PWC Venezuela 12th Place Coo Spring Cup 2nd Place Saburo Shikoku 1st Place
1998 Australian Championship 7th place. PWC France 27th Place Tateyama Raicho Valley Cup 2nd Place
1999 World Championship 28th PWC Morzine (France) 17th
2000 Austrian league 3rd round winner, Japan championship runner-up, PWC Brazil 28th
PWC Portugal 14th, PWC Chamonix 34th, World Cup overall 40th
2001 Australian Championship 2nd place, Tateyama Grouse Valley Cup 2nd place
XC record 146km (Coo→Nihonmatsu City, Fukushima Prefecture)
Pre-World Cup (Korea) 4th place
2002 World Cup Mexico Team Champion (Members: Ogizawa, Shoichiro, Rene) Individual 9th
French Championship 9th overall (task 3 top goal)
European Championship 20th place

2003 Australian Alpine Championship (Bright) Winner
World Cup Round 1 Tsukuba 6th place/ World Cup Round 2, Switzerland, 24th
French championship 12th place (TASK6 top goal)
World Cup Round 4 France 46th/ World Championship Portugal 15th place
CIVL world ranking 9th (as of November 1st)/ 2003 World Cup Over All 25th

Civil war
Japan Championship Hakuba Runner-up / J-League annual overall winner/ Japan Cup Annual Overall Winner

2004 JPA National League/ Paragliding Cup in Fuji (1st league round) Winner
Shikoku Saburo Cup (final league match) Winner

World Race
World Cup Round 1 Italy 12th place
French championship winner (perhaps the first non-French winner?)
World Cup Round 5, Mexico, 9th (Even though they finished 2 tasks out of 3…)