Cross Country: Feel the force

Cross Country magazine

January 2009

An interview with the acrobatic world champion

DO acro-stars fall fully formed from the sky or must they be nurtured from birth? In the case of Horacio Llorens it was surely both. A cousin of the famous acro stars the Rodriguez brothers he lives in Albacete, Spain. He was taught to fly by the Rodriguez brothers’ father, “Uncle Felix”, aged 15 and last year he managed the triple whammy, winning the Acro World Cup in both individual and sycnro disciplines, and finishing first in the FAI ranking. A ranking which, he reminds us, “takes the best results of the last three years of each competitor”.
So how did he get here?

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