steven loboue : 26 videos

The Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2016's champions will be crowned at first-ever night competition in Dubai, UAE on October 28 as the title fight in the women’s comes down to its climax.

Iconic Stari Most bridge serves as launch point for 22 athletes during the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series’ 7th stop on September 24 in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Czech continues his winning form in the 7th stop of the 2016 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series as the Canadian dominates the women’s competition in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Back in the European home of cliff diving going into the second half of the season! The year's fifth stop is held in the very south of Italy, in Polignano a Mare, where cliffs are the foundation of everyday life, with the town itself perched on the precipice. An enormous crowd can be expected, as this place not only means mozzarella, delicious raw fish and ice cream, but people of all ages fascinated by jumping into the water. Gary Hunt is aiming for his fourth consecutive victory from the 27...

Huge crowds, stunning dives and dramatic celebrations at World Series' birthplace The fourth stop of the 2016 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series saw the world's best divers make a return to La Rochelle, where the competition made its debut back in 2009, as another classic battle unfolded from the 27 metre platform on the Saint Nicolas Tower. Gary Hunt recovered from a below average start to thrill the 70,000 strong crowd with a typically stunning display of diving, while Andy Jones and Mich...

Gary Hunt recovered from a below average start to thrill the 70,000 strong crowd with a typically stunning display of diving, while Andy Jones and Michal Navratil continued their impressive form with 2nd and 3rd place respectively.

Following on from a thrilling competition at the mid-Atlantic cliffs in the Azores, the men will make a return to mainland Europe for the fourth stop of the 2016 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series. La Rochelle will once again be the historic setting as the world's best divers battle it out in front of record-breaking crowds, who are sure to provide a pulsating atmosphere. Watch the clip and get a taste of the action that awaits. © Red Bull Media House

Diving from up to 28m with no protection other than concentration, skill, and physical control; in less than three seconds reaching speeds in excess of 85km/h, and punctuated by awe-inspiring tricks – that's the essence of cliff diving. Diving directly off the cliff face is a whole different ball game – for the season's most pure stop the planet's finest male and female divers will return to the so-called Princess Ring on Portugal's Azores next Saturday. © Red Bull Media House

On a windy day in the Danish capital, Gary Hunt (GBR) delivered a truly mesmerising masterpiece at the second Stop in Copenhagen, DEN. He claimed the win and achieved a new record, while Kris Kolanus (POL) who started with a Wildcard, showed the performance of his life. Jonathan Paredes confirmed his performence of the first stop in Texas, USA and reached the third place.

A ground-breaking season, which started with the first ever competition in Colombia, home of the sport’s grand seigneur, Orlando Duque, and has broken point records more than once and seen the highest diving complexity in seven years of the World Series, will reach fever pitch in the season’s final showdown next Saturday. Bilbao’s La Salve Bridge will not only be the take-off strip for the year’s last aesthetic free falls and the place for the handing over of the 2015 champion’s trophy, but i...

Watch the competition week through the eyes of a cliff diver. Following the procedure, the rituals, the height feeling, the moment before the take off, reaction to the results from the judges, and much more. © Red Bull Media House

One day after his 26th birthday and after Mexico’s rising star started closing in on the podium’s top spot during the last competition in the Azores, Jonathan Paredes took the day’s high score (480.90pts) for the first time in his World Series career. Another premiere followed in second position with 24-year-old Sergio Guzman (471.05pts) being the first invitee to finish that high in the rankings in only his fourth World Series appearance. David Colturi (470.60pts), who sneaked into the final...

Jonathan Paredes takes first ever Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series victory in Mostar (BIH) on August 15, 2015. The Mexican had snatched the lead with a superb effort in Friday’s Seeding Round and went on to join a list of only 8 divers who have won an event in Red Bull Cliff Diving history. It was a stunning display of diving in Mostar’s old town on this red-hot Saturday afternoon. 12,000 fanatical spectators saw fellow Mexican Sergio Guzman score the first ever podium finish of a wildcard...

Four stops, four victories – that’s Gary Hunt’s immaculate record at the midway point of the 2015 World Series season. The ‘Brilliant Brit’ has constantly increased the level of cliff diving complexity and difficulty, reaching new heights. With the next stop in the Azores archipelago, however, the sport not only returns to its purest form with 27m dives directly of the cliff face, but also to the location where the 31-year-old missed out on the final in the previous visit. Could difficult c...

In the competition divers need to perform 4 dives each. Two easy dives called required dives and two difficult dives called optional dives. The easy dives are to show form and grace and the difficult dives are about doing as many somersaults and twists as possible. There are rules to follow about the types dives the athletes can perform and the direction of take off as well. How hey choose it? How they decide execute one dive and not a different one. © Red Bull Media House

The hat-trick in wins went to the apparently unstoppable 30-year-old Gary Hunt, while Colombian legend Orlando Duque (478.70pts.) made it his third podium in three competitions and settled old scores with this location as he had finished bottom of the standings after a failed dive the previous year. Completing the podium was the third winner of a World Series, Russia’s Artem Silchenko (466.90pts.), who earlier beat American Andy Jones in his head-to-head by another very narrow margin, and lea...

With two 10s from the judges and the highest-scoring three-second dive of the whole competition, Englishman Gary Hunt makes it three wins out of three with a new personal-best score of 533.90 points in Texas. The season’s third stop operated under a revised schedule due to the probability of severe weather conditions in the region and produced a World Series champions’ podium, as Orlando Duque, from Colombia, and Artem Silchenko, from Russia – the winners in 2009 and 2013 – completed the top-...

The 2015 World Series, with two stops down, has been very much in English hands – two victories by Gary Hunt, a fourth and a second place for Blake Aldridge make it 670 points for the duo from the United Kingdom. When the cliff diving elite comes back to the 27m platform on Hell’s Gate at Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas, on May 29, it is a return to the venue where in 2014 the competition turned into a high-scoring shootout. And it was ‘brilliant Brit’ Gary Hunt who made his mark with the highest...

During the season opener in Cartagena, the Divers showed they have spent their off-season perfecting their technique, learning new dives and adding more difficulty to the World Series. Now it is time for the second stop in the French La Rochelle. It was later the overall champion Artem Silchenko who took victory during the divers’ last appearance in 2013 in front of the biggest crowd ever for a World Series event of 70,000 spectators. Can he repeat this feat this year or will four-time champi...

What are the Basics of Cliff Diving? It’s pure, it’s fast and it takes your breath away. Cliff divers leap aesthetically from almost three times the Olympic height and hit the water at speeds of 85kph, protected only by their concentration, skill and physical control. © Red Bull Media House

Colombia’s Cartagena hosted the season-opener of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2015 on April 25th. The world’s best cliff divers gathered at the Convention Center in Cartagena to leap aesthetically from the 27 meters platform. The beautiful seaside city, surrounded by 400-year-old city walls was a convenient venue for the kick-off event of this brand-new cliff diving season. 30.000 enthusiastic spectators witnessed cliff diving legend Orlando Duque (COL) and 13 of his most talented c...

It was a season-start in style for four-time World Series champion Gary Hunt, who dominated the first competition of the 2015 season in Colombia’s Cartagena, making it his 20th victory in seven years of the World Series. The Brit's haul of 526.20 points is his second-highest score to date, and just 0.20 points short of his personal best. 30,000 vocal spectators cheered their local hero Orlando Duque (477.60pts) to a podium finish from the 27m-platform on the Centro de Convenciones and secured...

The Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series starts on April 25 in Cartagena, Colombia this year. The location at Cartagena’s Convention Center with its splendid view over the bay of Las Ánimas provides for a proper location to launch into the seventh season. Six months after the coronation of four-time World Series champion Gary Hunt at the grand final in Mexico, 10 of the world's best cliff divers and four wildcards will be diving from 27 metres-high in their bid for glory during eight competit...

Going into the second half, the 2014 World Series also returns to its pure and most fascinating natural side. Diving from a 28m cliff face without the support of a rock solid platform creates a special thrill and challenge for the world’s top athletes. A foreign feeling to those rather new in the sport, adjustments to the regular diving routine for everyone, even the experienced athletes. The two previous competitions on Portuguese soil have seen Artem Silchenko and Gary Hunt – both World Ser...

Brazil has football, Ireland the world's best Cliff Divers.

It's not been a glorious summer for England, but the country do at least have one sporting hero: Gary Hunt made it back-to-back wins in Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series competition with another sensational victory on Ireland's Inis Mór on Sunday afternoon.

The divers showed breathtaking action at the first stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2014 in Cuba’s capital Havana. 60.000 spectators couldn`t believe how high the level in professional Cliff Diving has become. Blake Aldridge was the insuperable man. After a moderate performance in the first round on Friday he showed 3 great dives on the main competition day and took home a well-deserved first place, followed by Jonathan Paredes in 2nd and Gary Hunt in 3rd....