Exertion, anticipation, ambition: A cliff diver’s week before the competition is packed with emotions. Follow the athlete’s procedures and rituals before the big jump and learn about how the cliff divers experience the dive itself. The height feeling and the moment of take off, all through until the athletes get the results from the judges and how they react to them.
Jonathan Paredes, the winner in Bosnia & Herzegovina, allows us insights into his personal preparations and explains how he spends his competition days. Via an action camera he takes the audience with him through the day until the big dive.
Mexican Jonathan Paredes is the winner of this year’s Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series, which was held in B&H for the first time.
World’s best divers in the water showed their jumps and acrobatics. They were jumping from a height of 28 meters, from the Old Bridge in Mostar.
“I feel great, l worked so hard for this and I’m simply going back and forth,” said Paredes after his winning jump which got him a total of 480.90 points.
(Source: 4msports.com)