Zhang Hao is a talented young acrobat from Cangzhou, north China's Hebei Province. /CGTN
Zhang Hao is a talented young acrobat from Cangzhou, north China's Hebei Province. /CGTN
Zhang Hao (center) trains together with his peers in Cangzhou, north China's Hebei Province. /CGTN
One of Zhang Hao's signature stunts is to perform the splits on the slack wire. /CGTN
Zhang Hao trains on the slack wire in Cangzhou, north China's Hebei Province. /CGTN
Zhang Hao can do various stunts on the slack wire, including balancing on a monocycle with only his upper body. /CGTN
Zhang Hao (center) trains with his peers in Cangzhou, north China's Hebei Province. /CGTN
Would you meet 14-year-old Zhang Hao, who started to train on slack wire at the age of six. With his excellent balancing skills, he was the best among his peers when it came to walking and performing stunts on the slack wire. Like everybody else, he couldn't balance on the soft and bouncy slack wire at first. He then followed his teacher's guidance and practiced on the ground before attempting to take to the slack wire assisted by guide ropes. When he was growing up, he was passionately obsessed about acquiring the skills to take this nerve-racking balancing act to the next level. He later added stunt moves to his routines.