“The moment you stop being afraid, you begin to live dangerously”
Orlando Duque is a legend, the iconic figure of the sport. He is cliff diving and cliff diving is his life. "The sport chose me. I went around doing other things; I didn't like any of them. When I ended up diving, I was like 'this is it!'". With 13 world titles and two Guinness world records to his name in a sport the he calls "the more natural form of diving", his tremendous ability from 27 metres does not need any more proof.
For almost 20 years, the sport's main ambassador has developed and established this raw and extreme discipline, has won literally everything – the inaugural World Series in 2009 as well as the first FINA High Diving World Championship title in 2013, amongst others – and there's still no stopping this man at the age of 43.
Orlando trains five or six times a week, jumps 70 times on a trampoline, 50 on a pool, spends two or three hours a day in the water, drinks three cans of Red Bull a day, runs in the morning, works the trunk, in the afternoon he rides a bicycle, he does general force work, and three times a week he goes to the pool to do specific dive training.
43-year old Colombian cliff diving superstar has 13 world titles, two Guinness Records and the first Gold Medal in the history of a FINA High Diving World Championships held in Barcelona, Spain in 2013.
Orlando is frequently invited by universities and organizations around the world to give motivational lectures to students, employees and sales forces, sharing his history, experience and career as an athlete.
