If you’ve been anywhere near the Internet in the last few days, chances are you’d have seen a jaw-dropping video of a young man skilfully gliding down a waterslide, skiing all the way across a pool and amazingly landing on the pool deck on his feet, managing to adjust his shirt as he lands.

The star of this viral video is 21-year-old Rolando Johnson, who has been working as a watersports attendant at Beaches Ocho Rios’ waterpark for the last two years.This rare capture of his impressive feat has been making the rounds on social media since earlier this week, amassing over five million views, and swiftly climbing. Johnson’s acrobatics have also been featured on

TMZ, ESPN and

NBC‘s

The Today Show and set the Internet ablaze with many viewers debating its authenticity.Johnson’s stunt is indeed real and took him just over a year to perfect. Explaining that it was initially difficult to master and execute safely, he said after 12 months of constant trial and error the stunt, which should only be performed and attempted by highly skilled and trained watersports personnel, has almost become second nature whenever he happens to do it.“At first when I came to Beaches Ocho Rios I used to watch other people go down the slide and try and ski as far as they could across the pool,” he explained. “I decided I wanted to do that. After I became good at skiing, I next vowed to make it all the way across the pool and walk up the side.”Josh Martin, a guest at Beaches Ocho Rios, was lucky enough to witness Johnson in action. He admitted that when he first saw the stunt on

Instagram he thought it was a camera trick, so when he got the chance to holiday at Beaches Ocho Rios he vowed to see it for himself, record it and post for all his friends to see.Johnson has been taking his newfound fame in stride. “It’s been kind of crazy ever since someone posted a video of me doing my waterslide skiing act on the Internet. Guests and staff alike are coming up to me every day asking for autographs and hanging out at the poolside just to see me in action,” he said.“I am really proud to be contributing to the guests’ experience and making my team members and my hotel in general feel very proud. For me it’s all about helping Jamaica’s tourism and giving back to Beaches Ocho Rios which took a chance on me and gave me a job,” he said.As for his future plans, Johnson said: “I am really happy to be doing my job and to be entertaining the guests, but in time I want to work my way up the ladder. Tourism is my thing and I see a bright future for myself at Beaches Ocho Rios.”