Twelve men, eight challenging competitions and 26 metres between take-off and dive. Physical mastery, pure aesthetics, deathly silence and crackling tension – that’s the formula the new Red Bull Cliff Diving Series 2009 is made of. The first stop was in La Rochelle (FRA). A town called “little cliff” is more than just predestined to host the kick-off event of the Cliff Diving Series 2009 and the first ever cliff diving competition in France.