Red Bull athletes Horacio Llorens and Rafael Goberna teamed up to take part in an exclusive one-off stunt over the stunning Palm Fountain, at the Pointe, Palm Jumeirah.
\nThe performance, now showing in a new Red Bull TV short film The Breaking Pointe, saw Llorens and Goberna wear special paramotors to glide between Palm Fountain\u2019s jets of water, which was recently crowned the world\u2019s biggest fountain display.
\nIn the film, the athletes \u2013 along with a large team of specialists \u2013 demonstrate what it takes to plan a stunt of this kind. Viewers see the pre-event training, engineering, as well as intensive training sessions and practicing choreography.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs soon as we got the opportunity, we wanted to fly there,\u201d explains pro paragliding pilot, Llorens. \u201cThe ultimate challenge is that we were flying in the night, which means low visibility. Therefore, we needed to know the area really well beforehand.\u201d
\n\u201cAlso, we needed to know how to \u2018play\u2019 with the Palm Fountain, which was new for us. And with such strong streams of water shooting up 100 metres, we had to be really prepared.\u201d
\nLlorens, along with fellow athlete and friend Goberna had been discussing and practicing tricks and choreography for some time prior to arriving in Dubai. Once in the emirate, the duo \u2013 along with the entire project team \u2013 conducted trial runs in the Margham Desert in daylight for two days.
\nParagliding with a paramotor is a complicated process and requires skill, patience and very, very precise planning, including needing to be adjusted according to the location they\u2019re in. \u201cDuring training that\u2019s when we were testing the paramotors, adjusting the gliders and the brakes,\u201d continues Llorens. \u201cRafael [Goberna] did have a little problem with his motor.\u201d
\nRed Bull athletes: The pair trained rigorously for the stunt
\nGoberna elaborates, \u201cThe motor wasn\u2019t flying so good, because prior to arriving in Dubai, it was last used in Europe at high altitude. Therefore, I needed to adjust the carburettor in the air inside the motor.\u201d
\n\u201cIn the first practice flight over the water, I broke one propeller. I really couldn\u2019t understand what was happening. And then another one broke. Eventually, a back-up motor was required.\u201d
\nRefusing to give up, the entire team worked tirelessly to be \u2018fountain-ready\u2019 for the filming of the film. \u201cIt was super nice for us to have finished for us this way \u2013 the process was definitely challenging from the very beginning,\u201d concludes Goberna. \u201cAfter a long journey, the result was beautiful. The team worked incredibly hard to make it.
\n\u201cThe highlight for me was playing between the super shooters with Rafael, because it\u2019s something we\u2019ve never done before; it felt really new and really powerful \u2013 with the water coming to our sides extremely high.\u201d
\nGoberna adds: \u201cYou feel the air coming up with the water \u2013 and the water splashes against your face because it\u2019s so strong. It was such a nice experience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Red Bull athletes Horacio Llorens and Rafael Goberna teamed up to take part in an exclusive one-off stunt over the stunning Palm Fountain, at the Pointe, Palm Jumeirah.
\nThe performance, now showing in a new Red Bull TV short film The Breaking Pointe, saw Llorens and Goberna wear special paramotors to glide between Palm Fountain\u2019s jets of water, which was recently crowned the world\u2019s biggest fountain display.
\nIn the film, the athletes \u2013 along with a large team of specialists \u2013 demonstrate what it takes to plan a stunt of this kind. Viewers see the pre-event training, engineering, as well as intensive training sessions and practicing choreography.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs soon as we got the opportunity, we wanted to fly there,\u201d explains pro paragliding pilot, Llorens. \u201cThe ultimate challenge is that we were flying in the night, which means low visibility. Therefore, we needed to know the area really well beforehand.\u201d
\n\u201cAlso, we needed to know how to \u2018play\u2019 with the Palm Fountain, which was new for us. And with such strong streams of water shooting up 100 metres, we had to be really prepared.\u201d
\nLlorens, along with fellow athlete and friend Goberna had been discussing and practicing tricks and choreography for some time prior to arriving in Dubai. Once in the emirate, the duo \u2013 along with the entire project team \u2013 conducted trial runs in the Margham Desert in daylight for two days.
\nParagliding with a paramotor is a complicated process and requires skill, patience and very, very precise planning, including needing to be adjusted according to the location they\u2019re in. \u201cDuring training that\u2019s when we were testing the paramotors, adjusting the gliders and the brakes,\u201d continues Llorens. \u201cRafael [Goberna] did have a little problem with his motor.\u201d
\nRed Bull athletes: The pair trained rigorously for the stunt
\nGoberna elaborates, \u201cThe motor wasn\u2019t flying so good, because prior to arriving in Dubai, it was last used in Europe at high altitude. Therefore, I needed to adjust the carburettor in the air inside the motor.\u201d
\n\u201cIn the first practice flight over the water, I broke one propeller. I really couldn\u2019t understand what was happening. And then another one broke. Eventually, a back-up motor was required.\u201d
\nRefusing to give up, the entire team worked tirelessly to be \u2018fountain-ready\u2019 for the filming of the film. \u201cIt was super nice for us to have finished for us this way \u2013 the process was definitely challenging from the very beginning,\u201d concludes Goberna. \u201cAfter a long journey, the result was beautiful. The team worked incredibly hard to make it.
\n\u201cThe highlight for me was playing between the super shooters with Rafael, because it\u2019s something we\u2019ve never done before; it felt really new and really powerful \u2013 with the water coming to our sides extremely high.\u201d
\nGoberna adds: \u201cYou feel the air coming up with the water \u2013 and the water splashes against your face because it\u2019s so strong. It was such a nice experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40933,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40932\/revisions\/40933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}