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Backflip in the second wake or second wave - public world-first claim - 2025
World First Snapshot
- First Title
- First backflip in the second wake or second wave on a wake foil
- Discipline
Boat Wake Foiling 
Freestyle Foiling- Class
- Open / Backflip
- Measured Result
- First - (First only)
- Date
- 2025-01-29
- Location
- Unknown
- First Achieved By
- Simon Nicolas Boucher
World First Spotlight
Monster Council Approval
Grindle, along with the foiling community at large, has given this glorious achievement the official Foiling Freaks nod for Boat Wake 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
Simon Nicolas Boucher posted a wake-foil backflip with the caption “Backflip in the second wave! World first?!” on January 29, 2025. The notable part of this claim is not merely the backflip, but the stated second-wave placement behind the boat, which makes the maneuver meaningfully more specific than a generic wake-foil flip claim. Because the caption itself includes a question mark around “world first,” the database preserves it as a candidate milestone rather than settled fact.
Rules of the Beast
Tracks the first publicly posted wake-foil backflip claim specifically performed in the second wake or second wave position. Because the source itself phrases the milestone as “World first?!”.
How This Got the Nod
Primary social post preserves the claim, but the wording is explicitly self-questioned.
Video Proof From the Vault
Simon Nicolas Boucher posted a second-wave wake-foil backflip and framed it as a possible world first.