Manolo flies, Manolo soars

When Manolis – as he is known to all – vaults, it’s more like an art installation than a sporting competition—the spectator is swept away by this synthesis of innovative performance and physical transcendence in which movement becomes art and gravity seems willing to negotiate. His body does not obey the laws of physics. It doesn’t fall like a 75 kg body should after a five-and-a-half or six-meter vault. No, something holds him up there, on the cusp between the tangible and the void, between ground and sky...