First Backflip Backside 3 in GWA wingfoil competition - 2024
World First Snapshot
- First Title
- First Backflip Backside 3 in GWA wingfoil competition
- Discipline
Wing Foiling
Freestyle Foiling- Class
- Open / Trick
- Measured Result
- First: Backflip Backside 3 - (First only)
- Date
- 2024-11-29
- Location
- Jericoacoara, Brazil, Ceará, Brazil
- First Achieved By
- Tomas Acherer
World First Spotlight
Monster Council Approval
Griffin, along with the foiling community at large, has given this glorious achievement the official Foiling Freaks nod for Wing Foiling.
May it inspire better evidence, cleaner runs, bigger claims, and even louder hooting from the crowd.
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How This Epic Thing Went Down
GWA reported that Tomas Acherer landed a 'world first', a Backflip Backside 3, during Surf-Freestyle action at the 26-30 November 2024 Brazil stop. The article describes this as the fourth competition day, corresponding to 29 November.
Rules of the Beast
First Backflip Backside 3 described by GWA as a world first in competition.
How This Got the Nod
Direct GWA event report.