Slide onto the roof of a hotel almost 300 meters high before jumping and deploying a parachute. This could, at first glance, make you think of a video game simulation. Yet this is the insane challenge that Brian Grubb accomplished.
The American, three times world champion in Waterskate, a discipline which consists of sliding on water using a board, is used to extreme sports. But he reached a new level on Tuesday in Dubai.
Towed on a waterskate for 94 meters by a drone, he then took a springboard before falling into the void and triggering a parachute. A world first that he did not fail to film, and which gave rise to sensational images.
