Congratulations to Nikolas Plytas who persevered through over 800 attempts before landing and riding away from the world’s first foil-board double backflip.
“Hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life – and also the world’s first double backflip in foilboarding. Over the past six months, I gave everything to this trick. Every time I was on the water, my only focus was landing it.” -Nikolas Plytas
The 29-year-old Greek multi-sport athlete started his career as a waterskier and has since expanded to wakeboarding, surfing, wing foiling, snowboarding and foilboarding. The small sampling of slam Plytas featured in this short video in no way encapsulates the struggle Nikolas went through to get this world’s first trick. Cheers to sticking with it and doing something for the first time in history.