This is the holy grail of skateboarding. 20 years ago, Tony Hawk went 900. Now Guy has gone a full spin more!
11-year-old Gui Khury has had plenty of time to perfect his skateboarding skills because of the closure of schools in Brazil, and his hard work shows him to be the first person to land a 1080-degree turn on a vertical ramp. Khury shattered a long-standing record by flying off the top of a ramp and completing three full spins in the air before landing cleanly and skating off.
The skater’s father says: “So now he is at home more, he eats better and he has more time to train and can focus more on the training so that has helped. During lockdown, Khury’s family makes 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 he completed the historic feat.
Skateboarding great Hawk landed the first 900 in 1999, nine years before Khury was born. Hawk was 31 when he successfully completed the trick calling it the biggest moment of his competitive career. Again Gui, is 11.
5/12/20 Susan Saunders
