Fred Hope wins the first GKA Hydrofoil Freestyle Champion title - 2020

World First Snapshot

First Title: First GKA Hydrofoil Freestyle Champion title
Discipline: Kite Foiling Freestyle Foiling
Class: Open / Freestyle
Measured Result: First - (First only)
Date: 2020-11-14
Location: Fortaleza, Brazil, Ceará, Brazil
First Achieved By: Fred Hope
Reference: Superfoil Fortaleza 2020 Day 3

World First Spotlight

Fred Hope

Monster Council Approval

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The Tale From the Foil Vault

GKA's SuperFoil Fortaleza 2020 report congratulates Fred Hope for winning the first ever GKA Hydrofoil Freestyle Champion title and emphasizes that kite hydrofoil freestyle was still a new sport. A later GKA recap clarifies that no official 2020 world champions were crowned, so Foiling Freaks preserves the achievement using the narrower title language that GKA itself used in the event report. This still belongs in the freestyle sheet because it marks a formal early title milestone for hydrofoil trick competition outside sitdown foiling.

Rules of the Beast

Counts the first GKA Hydrofoil Freestyle Champion title publicly awarded in the discipline's early event history. This series uses the GKA's own title language and does not describe the result as an official 2020 world championship if the same source ecosystem says no official 2020 world champions were crowned.

How This Got the Nod

Official GKA event report supplies the title wording; a later GKA recap adds the important 2020 no-official-world-champions caveat.