Gui Khury: 11-Year-Old Lands First-Ever 1080 on Vert Ramp

On May eighth, twenty twenty, a young skateboard prodigy, Brazil's Geek Curry to fine gravity at just the age of eleven, spending not once, not twice, but three full times in the air, landing the first ever ten eighty on a vertical ramp. Not only was this a jaw dropping feet and showed how relentless he was training, it also showed how the sport is continuing to grow across the world. He was from Brazil and just eleven years old. Kids were proving that age was just a number and it was passion and courage to reach the impossible. Join us as we dive into Gee Curry's ten eighty and how a kid can set records against men today on Daily Sports History. Welcome to Daily Sports History. I'm Ethan Reese, your guide as you daily learn more about sports history. He see your sports knowledge now. Ge Curry's skateboarding story began before he could even walk. His father, Ricardo, bought him a mini skateboard as his first toy. By the age of two, he was already pushing himself from the table to the couch, and Riccardo's passion and encouragement was crucial as he took gee to the local skate parts and nurtured his love for the sport in the very beginning. At just four years old, he started formerly skateboarding the YAMCA CDs in California, a hub for some of the top skaters in the world, and his first coach was Jimmy Watkins, a future ex Game champion who inspired in mentored geek through his formular of years, and by five he was already dropping into half pipes, soaring above divert ramps at high speed. Just to give you a reference for this at five to distant saying, I used to skateboard when I was a teenager, and I struggled to drop into half pipes and get any air or do any thing on that skateboard as a teenager. This kid is five. He has no fear as if it is a scary thing to do that you're going fast and it's all reliant on your balance. He was surrounded by a supportive community in the skateboarding world in these skills. After the advanced he became the youngest skateboarder ever to land a nine hundred, which is two and a half complete turns. We covered the very first nine hundred landed in competition with Tony Hawk, which was a huge moment in skateboarding history. Needed this at the age of eight. In twenty nineteen, at the age of ten, he became the youngest athlete ever to compete in those escapes. Though he did not win, just being there was huge for him. His discipline has set him apart. He trains for hours every day, driven for his love for speed and adrenaline. Because he doesn't only do this, he also serves as well. He just is an adrenaline junkie and loves to go fast and be on a board of any type. And by the age of eleven, he was not just a prodigy, he was a pioneer. He was ready to attempt this trick, the ten eighty three full rotations and become a legend, just like Tony Hawks had done in years before. In nineteen ninety nine, Tony Hawk landed the first nine hundred, and in nineteen eighty nine no one thought landing a nine hundred was possible, which is two and a half complete spins aerial spins off a vertical ramp or half pipe as we know it today, which half pipe is imagine looking through in and of a pipe cut in and half, and that's what a half pipe looks like, made out of wood, and that's what we really associate with skateboarding. Now there's other street types of skateboarding and other ways to do it, but that is most common in the most popular form, and him landing the nine hundred took a lot of attempts and it was a huge spectacle because everyone knew he was going to do it. X game was literally at the heights, everyone was shearing form, everyone was looking for that moment when he landed it. It was huge. Like literally when we talk about storming the field, they stormed the vert pipe. And after that, the next milestone in skateboarding was the ten eighty, but many didn't think it was even possible. Then in twenty twelve, a twelve year old named Tom Shara became the first person to land in ten eighty, although not in a vertical half pipe, instead on a mega ramp. Now this is a ramp you've probably seen it on videos where it's like a seventy foot drop with a fifty foot gap in between where they take off and they land, so you can get some huge tricks done. And Tom was able to land ten eighty taking this jump, which is three complete rotations, but no one had done it on a vertical half pipe. And it's a huge difference between a mega ramp and a vertical ramp. It's much smaller and more compact. You have less airtime, so you have to spend even faster and be more precise in your technique. And it would be years before someone would land it, And it took probably something you wouldn't expect for Gee to be able to do this. We all know what happened in twenty twenty. The global pandemic of COVID nineteen cut down everything, school sports, everything, But that doesn't mean you weren't still able to train in the sport or whatever you'd love to do. And he has nothing but time on his hands, he's able to train even harder. And his family had their very own vertical pipe at their house, so he could train all the time. And what was different about this time than other times because when the nine hundred first came around, back when Tony Hawk did it, it was all this like he said, she said, rumors like this guy landed it, this guy landed it. There was no like video proof or not done in competition, all this stuff, but now everything is on video. You can watch so many things. You can video for your whole practice, so you can make sure you don't miss anything. And that's what he did. He would videotape himself practicing, taking notes on what he did wrong or if he did something good, he could expand on that. And that's what he did. He set up a camera and through all his training. In May of twenty twenty, during a global pandemic, there's hope in the sports world. When we saw Gee Curry go one two, three full rotations, landing low on the pipe but landing it, becoming the first ever to land a ten eighty on a vertical pipe at the age of eleven, it still boggles my mind how young he is, but that was of the process. Tony Hawk did his nine hundred at the age of thirty one and it was difficult. Ghee did his nine hundred at the age of eight, making it easier for him to get to the ten eighty. And the reason why a lot of people think this was easier and it's been easier for these young kids to be so good at these tricks, is because they're smaller built, they're more flexible, and they can spin faster, and if they have no fear, which you need to have in these skateboarding competitions, they can do amazing things. And he quickly got the Guinness Book of World Records for landing this trick. But Gee wasn't done. He would go on the next year, in twenty twenty one, to become the youngest X Game champion, landing the first ten to eighty in competition while facing the legend Tony Hawk, who had came out of retirement for this, and he landed it on his final attempt in front of all his competitors. At this time, there was not the fanfare because of restrictions still going on, so he was not met by a mob like Tony Hawk was. It was a very lackluster moment, but he had a lot of lackluster moments during the pandemic. You don't have that crowd atmosphere, which definitely changes things for sure. But Gee didn't just stop there. He's continued to grow year after year, and by the age of fifteen, he already has a record eleven X Games medals, which is the most won by a teenager, and he's continued to innovate I want to thank you for listening today's daily sports History and if you want more skateboarding content, check out the Mostly Skateboarding podcast. 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