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First frontside 360 backflip on a wake foil - 2023
World First Snapshot
- First Title
- First frontside 360 backflip on a wake foil
- Discipline
Boat Wake Foiling 
Freestyle Foiling- Class
- Open / Backflip
- Measured Result
- First - (First only)
- Date
- 2023-11-01
- Location
- Unknown
- First Achieved By
- Nikolas Plytas
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
On November 1, 2023, Nikolas Plytas published a post claiming the world’s first frontside 360 backflip in boat wake foiling. Lift Foils repeated the claim in its own public post, explicitly naming wake foiling, crediting the boat account @waketowaketc and the video account @pa.n.zo, and presenting the trick as a completed first. A mirrored YouTube Short also carried the same “worlds first” framing. Taken together, the public trail gives this milestone strong support: an athlete claim, a brand amplification, and a separate video instance all point to the same date and trick.
Rules of the Beast
Qualifying entries track the first publicly documented wake-foil landing of a frontside 360 backflip. The clip/post should identify the discipline as wake foiling, present the trick as completed rather than attempted, and show enough of the takeoff, invert/rotation, and landing sequence to support the claim.
How This Got the Nod
Athlete/brand social posts and a mirrored YouTube Short align on the trick and firstness claim.
Video Proof From the Vault
Nikolas Plytas was publicly credited with the world’s first frontside 360 backflip in wake foiling.