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Noah Flegel with the first strapless backflip on a foil in open-ocean foiling - 2025
World First Snapshot
- First Title
- First strapless backflip on a foil in open-ocean foiling
- Discipline
Freestyle Foiling 
Tow-In Foiling- Class
- Open / Backflip
- Measured Result
- First - (First only)
- Date
- 2025-03-03
- Location
- Unknown
- First Achieved By
- Noah Flegel
- Reference
- Noah Flegel: Waterman
World First Spotlight
Monster Council Approval
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The Monster-Sized Story
Atlantic Current's 2026 profile of Noah Flegel names landing the world's first strapless backflip on a foil in open ocean as one of his standout milestones. A public post dated March 4, 2025 says he made history yesterday with the world's first strapless backflip on foil, which supports entering March 3, 2025 as the event date by direct date inference. The supporting Instagram reel presents the trick itself, while the profile adds the open-ocean wording that makes the freestyle context distinctive.
Rules of the Beast
Counts the first publicly documented strapless backflip on a foil in open-ocean foiling when a dated public post and later profile coverage align on the achievement.
How This Got the Nod
Later profile coverage and a dated public post align on the firstness claim. The exact location was not isolated in this research pass.
Video Proof From the Vault
Atlantic Current later described Flegel's milestone as the world's first strapless backflip on a foil in open ocean.