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Watch: Red Bull wakeskater rips through Cape Cod icebergs


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Heard of wakeskating? Think skateboarding but on water.

The weather off Cape Cod, Mass., provided the perfect opportunity for Red Bull-sponsored athlete Brian Grubb to wakeskate around huge icebergs on Thursday.

Grubb, 34, of Orlando, Fla., said the experience was "kind of crazy" with "25 mile-an-hour winds."

He wasn't sure what to expect when he arrived at the Cape. He ended up waiting for the tide to come up and "put some water around ice that was floating up by the beach."

The wakeskating adventure was time sensitive as the ice is melting. "We knew we had to jump on it before the ice got any smaller up there. I think we timed it pretty well," Grubb said.

So why does he devote his time to the sport professionally? Grubb says it is always a challenge. He's traveled to Bosnia and the Philippines to "bring it into another environment that you would never see it in."

Basically, he says he likes to answer the question. "What's the craziest thing you want to do this year?"

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