And he did, after roughly 10 tries.Īfter three full spins, the wheels of Gui’s skateboard touched down. He was confident he could land it eventually. Gui tried and tried for the 1080, just missing the landing and sliding down the ramp on his kneepads. Gui and his father, who acts as an informal coach and cellphone videographer, drove to the warehouse one day after finishing classes from home. The warehouse vert ramp is 20 minutes from their home, and there is also a smaller ramp in the family’s backyard. Gui would have more time to train, he could eat well at home and he would have unlimited access to the only athletic facilities he needed. When the coronavirus pandemic closed schools in Brazil, Ricardo realized that his son could benefit from the pause on much of the rest of daily life. Three months after that, he had landed his first 720 and became the youngest in the world to land it.” That’s really, really difficult for a skateboarder. “After I built the ramp here, he landed his first McTwist,” Ricardo Khury said, describing a 540-degree backside spin. So when the family moved to Curitiba, in southern Brazil, he built a ramp in a warehouse for his son to practice.
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