Elliot Sloan joined skateboarding's elite 900 club over the weekend, when he nailed the first-ever 900 tailgrab on the mini-megaramp at the Maloof Money Cup in Kimberly, South Africa.
The trick entails a 900-degree spin ( 2-1/2 rotations) and a one-handed tail-grab during the spin. Sloan easily won the best-trick competition and became only the seventh skateboarder ever to land a 900.
Tony Hawk was first, at the 1999 X Games, when he stuck a 900 on his 11th attempt on a traditional U-shaped vert ramp. Bob Burnquist last summer became the first to land a 900 on a full-scale megaramp.
Others to have landed a 900 (minus the tail-grab) are Georgio Zatoni, Sandro Dias, Alex Perelson and Mitchie Brusco.
The megaramp and mini-mega-ramp feature steep roll-ins and a jump ultimately leading to a quarterpipe wall. Tricks are performed above the wall.
Burnquist, Tweeting on Sloan's feat: "Radicalness at its finest. Congrats Elliot!"
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