The daring sport of free running highlights the extraordinary bravery of athletes who climb seemingly impossible buildings without any safety system like helmets and harnesses. Red Bull’s Ryan Doyle is one of the world’s best and is over here for a series of exciting exhibition performances.
Brought over by local Red Bull distributor Andreas ‘Zulu’ Kettner, American Doyle is training
with the local free runner group Flow Motion and will be performing at John Gray and Clifton Hunter High Schools. He will be in action at the pre-landing show and during the Pirate Parade on Saturday. On Sunday morning there will be a performance at the Black Pearl Skateboard Park.
On Monday he will be performing at the Bodden Town Heritage day.
Doyle was never the athletic type at school. In fact when it came to having a football kickabout he was always stuck in goal. So he channelled his energy into martial arts and later discovered free running.
He was a natural, and found he could turn any apparent weakness to his advantage. For example, although he has very poor eyesight he claims it’s an advantage because if he could actually see the true height of a jump he was on, he would probably chicken out!
His creative free running movements combined with a martial arts background has made him a national tricking champion three times. He also won the first official international free running event, Red Bull – Art of Motion in Vienna in 2007.
Unfortunately, right at his moment of triumph, Ryan broke his leg when he missed the landing mat from a 12ft jump in the final. He now has a bar held on to his leg with 14 screws as a permanent reminder.
But you can’t hold a good free runner down and Doyle is back in action, back in competition and touring the world with his jaw-dropping skills.
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