11-year-old skateboarder Gui Khury bested Tony Hawk by landing the world's first 1080
- 11-year-old skateboarder Gui Khury landed the first 1080 in the history of the sport on a vertical ramp.
- Khury completed three full rotations on a vert ramp built in his grandmother's back garden in Brazil.
- "I was like, oh my God, what did I just do?" Khury told Reuters after his historic feat. "I was just like OK, I landed it. Now I am going to celebrate."
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An 11-year-old skateboarder made the most of his time in quarantine, becoming the first person to ever land a 1080 on a vertical ramp.
Legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk became the first person to land a 900 back in 1999. Since then, no one had bested that mark on a vertical ramp. American Tom Schaar had hit a 1080 in 2012, but that came with the help of a mega ramp that helped achieve the higher elevation necessary for landing the trick.
Enter Brazil's Gui Khury. At just 11 years old, Khury was already the youngest skateboarder to ever land a 900, but last week, he bested himself, and the great skateboarders that had come before him, completing three full rotations in the air on a ramp built in his grandmother's back garden.
Check out his history-making run below.
Khury was in disbelief when he landed the trick.
"I was like, oh my God, what did I just do?" Khury told Reuters. "I was just like OK, I landed it. Now I am going to celebrate."
According to Khury's father, his accomplishment came in part due to the coronavirus pandemic, which has placed much of the world on lockdown.
"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," his father, Ricardo Khury Filho, told Reuters. "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."
Clearly, the extra focus paid off.
Khury said that he quickly sent the video around to some of the biggest names in skateboarding.
"I sent it to all my favorite skaters, like Tony Hawk, Bob Burnquist, and Neal Mims," he said. "Some posted it on their stories and some actually posted it on their Instagram. I was like that's so crazy because it's like a once in a lifetime experience."
After making history, Khury already has plans to go bigger, setting his sights on adding another half-rotation to his already record-setting feat.
"1260. One person has done it only but it was on a mega ramp so it will be way (more) difficult for me," Khury said of his next challenge.
This week, casual skateboarding fans celebrated the announcement that the original "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater" video games were getting a remastered release this fall.
Meanwhile, Khury was already living the dream.
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