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The World Series returns to Italy’s Puglia region for a record 10th time to celebrate cliff diving with the strongest line up of athletes during the halfway point of the 2023 season on July 2. The town where houses rise from the cliffs is the undefeated home of European cliff diving and will once again provide Red Bull Cliff Diving’s most unique backdrops in less than ten days. With two stops in the books in 2023 and double victories for Rhiannan Iffland from Australia and Romania’s Constanti...

With the the first two stops in the books, the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series reaches its halfway point of the 2023 season: The world's best cliff divers head to Polignano a Mare for a record tenth year, where the cliffs are the foundation of everyday life. The undefeated home of European cliff diving is located in the province of Bari, Puglia region, with more than 17,000 inhabitants. The scenic little town where houses rise from the cliffs provides the most unique and memorable venue. I...

With the the first two stops in the books, the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series reaches its halfway point of the 2023 season: The world's best cliff divers head to Polignano a Mare for a record tenth year, where the cliffs are the foundation of everyday life. The undefeated home of European cliff diving is located in the province of Bari, Puglia region, with more than 17,000 inhabitants. The scenic little town where houses rise from the cliffs provides the most unique and memorable venue. I...

With the the first two stops in the books, the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series reaches its halfway point of the 2023 season: The world's best cliff divers head to Polignano a Mare for a record tenth year, where the cliffs are the foundation of everyday life. The undefeated home of European cliff diving is located in the province of Bari, Puglia region, with more than 17,000 inhabitants. The scenic little town where houses rise from the cliffs provides the most unique and memorable venue. I...

After an exciting season opener just two weeks ago in the US, the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series embarked for the second stop of the season to European soil. France, where cliff diving started is part of the competition calendar for the tenth time, and now in its second consecutive time in the heart of the country's capital city, Paris. Spectators have a mind-blowing view of the elite divers in front of France’s most famous landmark, the Eiffel Tower, as they compete from the diving plat...

In a never-done-before feat, cliff diving’s female favorite Rhiannan Iffland with her diving partner and local hero Constantin Popovici, pushed the boundaries of high diving to the next level as they leaped from the walls of the cone-shaped mining room into the underground high-salinity lake in the depths of Transylvania. 120m under the surface of the Earth and surrounded by a science fiction-like wonderland shaped by salt and humankind, the athletes’ bodies were decelerated from 85km/h to z...

In a never-done-before feat, cliff diving’s female favorite Rhiannan Iffland with her diving partner and local hero Constantin Popovici, pushed the boundaries of high diving to the next level as they leaped from the walls of the cone-shaped mining room into the underground high-salinity lake in the depths of Transylvania. 120m under the surface of the Earth and surrounded by a science fiction-like wonderland shaped by salt and humankind, the athletes’ bodies were decelerated from 85km/h to z...

We just built a new type of drift trike that makes this sport a way more extreme ! With 3 wheels and no brakes so we had to slow down with tires fixed on our feet. Downhill in France, in the Cantal mountains. These drift trikes are designed for high speed and allow to take huge turns. Cette vidéo a été réalisée avec le soutien de ManoMano, site de matériel de bricolage en ligne, à découvrir ici : https://www.manomano.fr ►Description (French) Au menu ce weekend, fabriquer des char...

Winter is coming, check vidéo featuring my summer & autumn times ! [Watch in HD] L'hiver arrive, voici une vidéo filmé durant mon été et automne. [Regardez en HD] IG : @lucilelefevre FB : https://www.facebook.com/lucilelefevre.snowboard/ Thank for support Fédération Française de Ski, Risoul, Rip Curl, Rome Snowboards & Club Elite Hautes-Alpes. Thank you everyone was behind the lans for filming : Stephane Azzola, Sébastien Konijnenberg, Sacha Moretti, Aluan Ricciardi, Maxime Girau...

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.

Episode Four in the Life in Focus Mini Series takes a turn to Mammoth Lakes where we visit with Christian Pondella, his family and the environment that keeps his creativity stoked. EO4 kicks off in Christian's gear locker where see all of the tools of his trade. It is a fitting place to begin our visit as Christian's skills and images are well known for high risk and challenging locations. Christian talks about his early days, the luck of the business, and the keys to his success. He allo...

The two local boys put on an impressive show today. Sepp Bruhwiler made it into the round of the round of 24 as well as Peter Devries, his form today being reminiscent of his victory last year. But former World Tour competitor Kekoa Bacalso (HAW) as well as CWC Tasmania winner and current frontrunner in the CWC Series rankings, Stuart Kennedy (AUS) are already out of the competition! Joining them was another former World Tour surfer, Tim Reyes (USA), as well as Yadin Nicol (AUS), Dion Atkinso...

The first competition day of the O’Neill Cold Water Classic Canada 2010 had to be cancelled due to wild storms. But due to the high tide which covered the entire beach, they just got through to heat 4 today. Australian former World Tour surfer, Jarrad Howse got things going in the first heat, posting the highest wave score, 8.17, and highest heat total of the day. Last year’s CWC Canada winner and Tofino local, Peter gave the crowds on the beach a little bit of a fright as he looked set to b...

After the most southern surf event in Tasmania, the most northern in Scotland, the wildest in South Africa and the coldest in Canada – the O’Neill Cold Water Classic Series 2010 reaches its big final with the last tour stop and the most classical event of its contest series. After four spectacular and wild surf events spanning four different continents in 7 months, Santa Cruz will host the big final stop of the Cold Water Classic Series 2010. Santa Cruz is the perfect venue for the big show d...

The forth and penultimate stop of the O’Neill Cold Water Classic 2010 brings the series to the remote town of Tofino, Canada. The little fishing village is located on the stunning West Coast of Vancouver Island and is considered one of the best surfing spots in Canada. Tofino is a gem secluded in the province of British Columbia, Canada. At its doorstep is the Clayoquot Sound region, a world UNESCO biosphere reserve. They are right on the open Pacific Ocean, so when the surf comes in, it’s c...

You can also call Tofino “the rainiest places on earth”. In Tofino the average rainfall is 135 inches per year, more than ten feet! Dallas, Texas gets 36 inches/yr, Paris, France 23.9 inches, Hamburg enjoys 29.7 inches of rain. But Tofino wouldn’t be Tofino without all the rain! The expression "I'm bailing out of here" may have originated in Tofino, as many residents develop a desperate need for dry, sunny weather by late February. The Vancouver Island Mountain Range acts as a rainmaking dev...

Even though Tofino can get up to 127 inches of rainfall every year and suffer grueling winters - one local surfer manages to retain a year-round sunny disposition... his name is Noah Cohen. Who would better be suited than him as the event ambassador for this year’s Cold Water Classic Canada event. 21-year old Noah Cohen is a Tofino local, professional surfer and team rider for O’Neill. No snowstorm, of which there are many in Tofino along the West Coast of Canada, will keep Noah from punting...

On the West Coast of Vancouver Island the First Nation Group is the Nuu-chah-nulth tribe. There is evidence that some villages are 10.000 years old. Before contact there were more than 10.000 people of one tribe living just one that peninsula, but due to the epidemic they were reduced to just 129 people by 1929! Nuu-chah-nulth literally means people of the mountain and the sea. The two are very interconnected within their culture and beliefs. For them everything is connected, everything is on...

Get a glimpse of South African surf superstar and Team O'Neill Rider Jordy Smith at the Quiksilver Pro France 2010. He shows us what he's up to in Hossegor and who is accompanying him on this trip. What you probably didn’t know about Jordy… he’s quite the singer/rapper!:)

When it’s freestyle.ch-time, you’re coming - no matter what! Even buckets of rain can’t stop you! For the 16th time Europe’s biggest action sports extravaganza on Zurich’s Landiwiese unites the best of the best in the most exciting freestyle disciplines of Snowboarding, Freeskiing, Freestyle Motocross (FMX) and Skateboarding. The highlight event of the day is the crossover session, where all 4 disciplines compete against each other. FMX couldn’t participate this time due to the rain and for s...

The 16th annual freestyle.ch Zurich was a hit despite the weather. 28,000 freestyle fans gathered at the Landiwiese to cheer on their freestyle superstars. This year’s freestyle.champs are Gjermund Bråten (NOR) in snowboarding, Henrik Harlaut (SWE) in freeskiing, Dany Torres (ESP) in FMX and Sandro Dias (BRA) in skateboarding. In addition to its contests, freestyle.ch was able to captivate audiences once again with its live acts. Reggae singer Cali P and his Soul Fire Band ignited the crowds...

When it's freestyle.ch-time, you're coming - no matter what! Even buckets of rain can't stop you! For the 16th time Europe's biggest action sports extravaganza on Zurich's Landiwiese unites the best of the best in the most exciting freestyle disciplines of Snowboarding, Freeskiing, Freestyle Motocross (FMX) and Skateboarding. It's been raining all day long. Due to the wet half pipe, the skateboarders couldn't really show what they got in store. But contenders Pierre-Luc Gagnon (CAN), Renton M...

The 16th annual freestyle.ch Zurich was a hit despite the weather. 28,000 freestyle fans gathered at the Landiwiese to cheer on their freestyle superstars. The battle between up and coming Gjermund Bråten (NOR) and Sebastien Toutant (CAN) for victory in the snowboard final was hard fought. Both performed flawless double cork 1260°s, a trick rarely seen until now at in-city Big Air events. In the end, current TTR tour leader, Gjermund Bråten, pulled of a more pristine trick execution. Finnish...

The 16th annual freestyle.ch Zurich was a hit despite the weather. 28,000 freestyle fans gathered at the Landiwiese to cheer on their freestyle superstars. The entire FMX and skateboarding contests were shifted to Sunday due to heavy rainfall. Of the top 4 contenders in the FMX final, it was last year's FMX champion, Danny Torres, who grabbed the title for a second time. The Swiss French Mat Rebeaud had to settle for second place and Libor Podmol (CZE) finished 3rd.

The 16th annual freestyle.ch Zurich was a hit despite the weather. 28,000 freestyle fans gathered at the Landiwiese to cheer on their freestyle superstars. In an equally intense head-to-head fight for the freeski title Henrik Harlaut (SWE) landed first place and Elias Ambühl (SUI) second. Harlaut amazed with a perfect switch double cork 900° that he executed with a precision Ambuehl wasn't able to match. Coming 3rd is Andreas Hatveit from Norway.

Blue skies and sunshine are welcoming visitors of freestyle.ch at Landiwiese this morning. While yesterday heavy rainshowers forced the organizers to cancel the FMX and the skateboarding qualifications these contests can be held today. In order to fit the tight program the best 4 will directly qualify for the finals that will be held as planned. The starting list for the freeski final is fixed. In the semi final Elias Ambühl (SUI) got 1st, 2nd Henrik Harlaut (SWE), 3rd Andreas Håtveit (NOR) a...

Blue skies and sunshine are welcoming visitors of freestyle.ch at Landiwiese this morning. While yesterday heavy rainshowers forced the organizers to cancel the FMX and the skateboarding qualifications these contests can be held today. In order to fit the tight program the best 4 will directly qualify for the finals that will be held as planned. In the semi final the remaining 8 snowboarders battle it out against each other. Peetu Piiroinen (FIN) lands on top, winning the semi final. Sebastie...

The 16th annual freestyle.ch Zurich was a hit despite the weather. 28,000 freestyle fans gathered at the Landiwiese to cheer on their freestyle superstars. The entire FMX and skateboarding contests were shifted to Sunday due to heavy rainfall. The Swiss Mat Rebeaud won the FMX final, 2nd is Dany Torres (ESP), 3rd Libor Podmol CZE). On the 4th place is Petr Pilat (CZE).

When it’s freestyle.ch-time, you’re coming - no matter what! Even buckets of rain can’t stop you! Although the bad weather resulted in canceled FMX and skateboarding contests, a skateboarding demo could be held and the snowboarding and freeskiing qualifications were all the more phenomenal. Performances were also of the highest caliber in the snowboarding qualification. The entire field of riders threw down double corks and impressed spectators with their skills and their style. Two-time TTR...