Assassin’s Creed Stunt Recreated in Real Life as Red Bull Athlete Sets Haystack Jump World Record

A Red Bull jock has breached a satellite grounds portion recreating the iconic "Leap of Faith" from Assassin’s Creed.

Professional freerunner, stuntwoman, and Red Bull jock Lilou Ruel jumped a feet-tingling 18.2 meters into a immense stack of hay, breaking the satellite grounds for highest haystack jump.

For reference, that’s astir arsenic gangly arsenic a six-story building, truthful we tin recognize wherefore Ruel started screaming arsenic she got adjacent to the crushed successful Red Bull’s viral video capturing the moment.

Luckily, she landed successful the hay unharmed, warranting an excited solemnisation from her friends for successfully completing the heart-stopping stunt.

"Thank you, Red Bull, for giving maine wings for a fewer seconds," she joked connected Instagram. "I bash deliberation we tin spell mode higher, should we try?"

This isn’t the archetypal clip a Red Bull jock has breached the satellite grounds for the highest Leap of Faith; successful May 2026, Dominic Tommasso fell 18.1 meters into a haystack portion dressed arsenic Edward Kenway from Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resycned successful solemnisation of the title’s release.

Black Flag Resynced has enjoyed a stellar launch, selling a jaw-dropping 2 cardinal copies successful conscionable 24 hours. A week later, it has present surpassed 3 cardinal copies sold, with Ubisoft announcing caller crippled positive is connected the way.

In fact, Black Flag managed to rake successful $1 cardinal from its day-one DLC connected Steam alone, earning the series’ biggest playerstreak connected the PC gaming level successful Assassin’s Creed history.

Despite this success, Black Flag’s merchandise hasn’t travel without controversy, arsenic Ubisoft notably announced plans to laic disconnected 380 unit members successful June. This included 51 employees who contributed to the game’s diving sections astatine Ubisoft’s Barcelona office, who are present campaigning for just severance pay, arguing that what they were fixed was "below immoderate tenable standard.”

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