How not to launch a paraglider

A video has surfaced from Italy of a man crashing his paraglider as he attempts to take off.

Captured last month near Bolzano, the helmet camera video shows the extreme sports enthusiast trying to get the wind to fill the paraglider.

Suddenly a gust picks him up and blows him off the hill in the wrong direction.

He slides down the snowy face of the slope at high speed but eventually comes to a stop.

He was uninjured in the incident.

"Not the best performance this day, but a good lesson for me," the filmer wrote online.