Stubai Cup 2024: Aaron Durogati and the Woody Valley Race

Aaron Durogati and Anselm Rauh were on hand at the Stubai Cup 2024 in Austria to talk us through the new Woody Valley Race harness. This is the serial version of the Race Pro, which is used by top-level adventure-race pilots like Aaron. Available in four sizes it starts at 1.7kg. Aaron demonstrated its innovative stabilising system, which allows you to change the stability of the harness when for either thermalling mode (more flexible) or when you go on glide (more stable).
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[@kocot.]

2:51, funny how you see him going for the reserve handle but missing it A LOT. Which is exactly what the experiments by XCMag had shown earlier. Hence I really don't understand what is the motivation to move reserves under the seat in H&F harnesses, where we fly a lot close to the ground and in tricky conditions, where 2nd reserve isn't an option anyway, and where you'd really want a bigger protection under your ass/lower back instead of a stiff reserve/hole after reserve.
Anyway, nice harness otherwise, I really wonder how good the stabilization is. RXA3 system wasn't really usable for me, but it's not adjustable like this one. It does looks like a lot of faff and unnecessary complication, but if that works well it can be a killer feature for some days

[@LiiMuRi]

Cool. That stabilization system is quite interesting

[@alexsakon]

I have the inflatable protection and it only takes 20 sec to inflate. Also it’s located so that you can inflate it while in flight if you forget so I like the inflatable.

[@Stephane1995]

Can we expect a full review in the mag? How is the luggage capacity?

[@xcmag]

We should be receiving a harness soon for full gear-insight piece in the magazine