About

Paul Franco

34 Year old, professional world class athlete with experience since 1989.

Grew up in Brazil, resident in Maui traveled the world representing international sponsors and teaching the arts of Paragliding & Kiteboarding. Featured in numerous kiteboarding & paragliding movies, magazines etc.

Born in Sao Paulo Brazil, resident on Maui since year 2000
Languages: English, Portuguese and Spanish

Paragliding

Paragliding since early 90′s, ranked top 10 in Brazil from 1992 to 1996, ranked top 20 on the Paragliding World Cup 1993 & 1994
Tandem paragliding since ’91 with a 100% clean safety record taking more than 9000 first timers in the air with zero incidents
Teaching paragliding and paramotoring since 1992 around Brazil and the U.S., totaling more than 150 certified students, again with zero incidents
Paragliding sponsors, Coca-Cola, Puma and Antartica. 2 years (1995 & 1996) traveiling to the most popular places in Brazil in a major marketing campaign. Logged over 400 Paramotor hours.
Managed and worked for several paragliding schools & retail business
- Sao Paulo, Brazil: Nomads of the Air, 1991/1992, Sao Paulo CEA 1993, Andradas 1994
- Miami Florida: Aerolight USA, 1997
- New York: New York Paragliding Center, 1998/1999
- Maui, Hawaii: Proflyght Paragliding, 2000-present date, actively working as a USHPA advanced paragliding instructor and tandem pilot

Kiteboarding

Paul emerged onto the kiteboarding scene in 2000 and has been dedicated to innovating and teaching the sport ever since.

Ranked top 10 in the world PKRA & PKWT events 2002 & 2003
Ranked 6th on the Red Bull King of the Air 2003
Became a certified professional instructor in 2000
Trained over a thousand beginners and over 50 instructors in the last eleven years (with zero incidents)
Worked for Action Sports Maui, Aqua Sports Maui, New Wind OR, and the best kite school in the world KSM Kitebording School of Maui