Victor Usanov, UP dealer of Estonia, participated with our new 2-liner and sent us his feedback.
"Once again many thanks for providing me with TORRE for the SRS competition in Bassano, Italy!", he wrote to us after the event of May 23-30 2026. Of course we wanted to know, how he managed with the new paraglider under competitive conditions. He reported: "As we now know, Bassano was the highest scoring SRS event ever with a very competitive pilots level. We've been lucky with all days flyable and five tasks complited. Only one was stopped due to tunderstorms. It was a total joy to race in such conditions and along highly skilled pilots. For me SRS becomes increasingly important for the sports class."
"Of cource in such a field a competitive wing is a must and TORRE did not dissapoint. As we may expect from an UP paraglider it has a dream handling. But even compared to some other UP gliders TORRE has I think the sweetest handling ever! Before, my favorite was MERU (EN/LTF D) but TORRE overtook. Centering a thermal happens almost automaticly and when the conditions are strong, it get's more and more fun! Like racing with a light sports car with rear wheel drive system! Pure joy!
My other MERU association is total ease and stability. TORRE holds huge impacts from turbulence, remains under control and somehow keeps going forward! My loading was far from ideal but still everything was fine. During competition, you can immidiatly see the performance of the wing in parallel flight with other gliders. It terms of glide ratio and sink TORRE is superb. Im flying a classical non-sub-style harness and even with such a configuration, I was able to glide as good as gaggle around me or better. Regarding pure speed, I'd need to check it again with a proper loading. With 7-8 kilos below the top of the weight range of size XL, I wasn't able to push the speed bar to full potential. A little annoying, but as I said, that's due to the loading.
I still put TORRE on top of my personal list of favorite wings, because in a wider picture of real everyday flying, the combination of handling, stability, fun factor and performance makes it a "weapon of choice"!"
See all tasks and results: Results | SRS Bassano 2026