Anyone who has queued at Universal Studios Singapore and looked up at the curving blue roof of Singapore Oceanarium has probably wondered what it would feel like to stand on it. Freerunners now know, and their answer is on video.
Red Bull turned Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) into a high-altitude game of capture-the-flag, and the full clip is up now on the resort’s official YouTube channel. The spots in the film are places a Singapore reader can visit this month, from Hollywood Boulevard to the Grand Steps. According to Red Bull and RWS, it’s the first freerunning race of this scale ever held in Singapore.
Meet the Flag Hunters
The rules, as the video’s narrator lays them out, are simple. Flags are hidden around the resort, and the team that collects the most of them wins. The hard part is getting to each flag.
Leading one team is Dominic Di Tommaso, an Australian Red Bull freerunner who competes regularly at Red Bull Art of Motion and belongs to Team Farang, one of the crews driving parkour forward across Southeast Asia.
The other team paired Dutch Red Bull freerunner Noa Diorgina with Koh Chen Pin, known as CP, from the Singapore community group Lion City Parkour. For Diorgina, it was her first trip to Singapore, and she wasted no time finding the rooftops. Some people start with chicken rice.
From Oceanarium Roof to Castle Top
The race kicked off on the roof of Singapore Oceanarium, where both teams ran and flipped across the building’s sweeping blue spine, 90 feet above ground. Red Bull and RWS say these athletes were the first ever to do so, and Diorgina sounded as surprised as anyone. “I was surprised that we could be the first people to go on the roof of Singapore Oceanarium!” she said.
Imagine the view from 90 feet up, with the rest of the resort laid out beneath you like a map you’re about to sprint across. This is the opening sequence of the film, and it earns that spot, because the roof’s curves give the runners something to flow along rather than simply cross.
Things got most intense at The Laurus, a Luxury Collection Resort. There, the athletes cleared a series of 10-foot roof gaps, nine storeys up, one after another in quick succession.
That stretch is the part worth watching twice. A 10-foot gap on flat ground is a long jump most people would think hard about, so seeing it done again and again at nine storeys, with a flag on the line, is what separates a professional from a hobbyist!
From there, the course passed through WEAVE, RWS’s newest retail and lifestyle destination. Next, it converged on Universal Studios Singapore, where the teams launched in front of the famous globe and wove down Hollywood Boulevard past Mel’s Drive-In, before finishing atop Far Far Away Castle.
The teams split up for the next leg. Outside Hotel Ora, Di Tommaso and Spinboy scaled the exterior walls and leapt a run of handrails set 8 feet apart. Meanwhile, Diorgina and CP dropped inside to flip through the Open Ocean gallery, home to an 18-million-litre viewing tank that RWS calls the largest in Southeast Asia. Everything ended at the Grand Steps, where Di Tommaso and Diorgina sprinted down a three-flight staircase for the final flag.
Who Keeps This Safe?
It’s a fair thing to wonder when people are flipping across rooftops. Because the race ran through public spaces with spectators around, Red Bull and RWS say every section took place under professional supervision, with safety measures and risk assessments done for each part of the course.
Please don’t try the Laurus gaps after dinner at WEAVE. These are athletes who worked under professional supervision.
The athletes were looked after off the rooftops too. RWS says it delivered its “eat, play, sleep” hospitality model to the athletes.
Can Parkour Be a Career?
For CP, this was the big one. “It has always been a dream of mine to be on a Red Bull project, especially on such a scale!” he said. He believes Singaporeans will be shocked by the footage, and he hopes it gives parkour “a voice in such a positive light” that can make the sport feel more legitimate here.
Di Tommaso shows what the path can look like. His Red Bull projects have taken him to the Pyramids and Sphinx in Cairo and to the Sydney Opera House, where he became the first athlete to freerun across the venue. Brands pay for this kind of footage because it travels, and each project becomes part of an athlete’s portfolio for the next job.
The format has changed over the years as well. Red Bull Art of Motion, which began in Vienna in 2007, has athletes judged on style, flow and skill across spots like the cliffside homes of Santorini. A race for flags, with teams splitting up and chasing points against a rival, is a different test, and a more watchable one for anyone who doesn’t know a double fly-away from a front flip.
Singapore’s Scene Is Growing Up
Di Tommaso says he has been visiting Singapore for years and has watched the local parkour community grow “in an exponential way”, with more structure and more public attention than before. His favourite detail is one most people wouldn’t expect.
“I’ve seen elderly here in Singapore learning parkour for fall prevention, which is incredible to see and shows exactly what the sport can do beyond the tricks,” he said. That’s the best argument in the whole project. The 90-foot flips get the clicks, while the same skills of landing, balancing and moving well are helping someone’s grandparents stay on their feet.
🗓️ Date: Press release dated 30 September 2026
📍 Location: Resorts World Sentosa, Sentosa, Singapore
🎃 Festival of Thrills: At RWS until 1 November 2026
🔗 Details: Full clip on Resorts World Sentosa’s official YouTube channel, with more videos on Red Bull Singapore’s TikTok, Instagram and Facebook
Watch the full race on Resorts World Sentosa’s official YouTube channel, then follow Red Bull Singapore on TikTok, Instagram and Facebook for the behind-the-scenes clips and whatever rooftop they climb next. If the footage makes you want to see these spots in person, RWS’s Festival of Thrills runs until 1 November 2026. That’s time enough to walk Hollywood Boulevard at ground level and check out Halloween Horror Nights 14, and you’ll never look at the Oceanarium roof the same way again!
Photos and Visuals courtesy of Red Bull and Resorts World Sentosa.
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