Before the miracle, Gui Khury was already considered one of the prodigies of world skateboarding. Born in Brazil, but raised in the United States, in southern California, at eight he became the youngest skater to complete a 900 degree vertical ramp jump; at nine he began to compete with the older ones; and at 10, that is, last year, he debuted at the X Games, the summit of extreme sports, with another jump of 900 degrees. At the age of 11 he was called to be one of the stars of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in which his specialty would debut.
But the coronavirus pandemic came, and Khury had to find another way to make history. And he did. In a big way.
His feat demands context. A 900 degree jump is so difficult that the first one to do it was Tony Hawk , in 1999, at age 31, and he always considered it the best stunt of his career. After the Hawk, in fact, only a dozen skaters had managed to make those two and a half turns in the air, and no one had passed it. Out of regulation, using giant ramps, 1080 degrees and even 1260 had been reached, but it had never gone beyond 900 degrees on an approved vertical ramp.
Until Khury. Last week, on the ramp mounted on the family farm in Curitiba, Khury completed the first 1080-degree jump in history. Your secret? Confinement.
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"Coronavirus isolation helped because I used to have a school-centered life and didn't have much time to train before," skateboarder Ricardo Khury Filho, a lawyer and skateboarder, told Reuters. "Now he is more at home, he eats better and he has more time to prepare. As he is lucky to be able to train like this, he has that advantage. If he would not be locked up at home like the others," he added.
"I thought, oh my God, what did I just do? I finally got it, I have to celebrate it," Khury himself pointed out to the agency that detailed that the young man's celebration was "some macaroni and cheese." "I sent the video to my favorite skaters, Tony Hawk, Bob Burnquist and Neal Mims," concluded the skater who is already waiting for the return to competition to be able to continue to amaze the world, but this time live.
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