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  • 11-Year-Old Makes History With This Skateboarding Trick [Video]

    12 May 2020 by Jasmine Stone in Skateboarding, Sport, Video
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    Most 11-year-old skateboarding fans have only ever pulled off a 1080-degree turn on one of those Tony Hawk video games.

    Smash all the buttons, flick into the air, and leap from rail to rail – those were good times.

    For 11-year-old Brazilian Gui Khury, it’s a reality, though, with the youngster nailing a move that comes more than two decades after Hawk completed the first-ever 900-degree turn on a vertical ramp.

    Khury pulled off three complete turns in the air before landing back on the ramp, in a move that has long been considered one of skateboarding’s holy grails.

    Here he is in action:

    Bang, nailed it.

    A 1080 has been achieved once before, by American Tom Schaar in 2012, but he did so on a mega ramp that gives skateboarders a higher speed and elevation in which to complete all three turns, so his doesn’t count towards the vertical ramp record books.

    The Telegraph with more:

    “The isolation for the coronavirus helped because he had a life that was about school and he didn’t have a lot of time to train, when he got home from school he was tired,” the skater’s father Ricardo Khury Filho told Reuters…

    During lockdown, Khury’s family make the 20-minute journey to his grandmother’s house on most days to deliver food and drop him off so that he can train on the vertical ramp, bowl and street course they had built in her back garden. It was on that ramp that the pre-teen completed his historic feat.

    He was already the youngest skateboarder to complete the 900-degree turn, a feat he pulled off aged eight.

    To celebrate his historic achievement, Khury enjoyed some mac and cheese at home with his family, and he says he is far from done.

    His next aim is nailing a 1260, and you’d probably back him to succeed.

    [source:telegraph]

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