Australian Arisa Trew completed the 720 lap, two full laps in the air. She’s the first woman to do this.
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Arisa Trew: The 13-year-old made skateboarding history with her successful 720 trick. AFLOSPORT/imago
Australian Arisa Trew has become the first woman in skateboarding history to do the 720 trick on a halfpipe. Skaters spin their board twice in the air.Trew toured the Tony Hawk Vert Alert in the United States, one of skating’s premier competitions. The first skater to do this trick is skate legend Tony Hawk himself.
On his Instagram account, Trew wrote, “Can’t believe I landed my first 720.” She also can’t believe she was the first skater to land the trick. What makes the sense of achievement even better: Tony Hawk himself was present at the competitions. Hawk first made the 720 in 1985. If you do the same, you belong to the upper class of the sport of skateboarding.
Arisa Trew’s performance took first place ahead of 16-year-old Asahi Kaihara from Japan and 10-year-old Reese Nelson from Canada. Trew is now ranked 14th in the world. But the teenager has even more plans: she wants to compete for Australia at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Perhaps then she will be closer to the next milestone in the skateboarding world: in 1999, Tony Hawk managed to turn 900 degrees backwards for the first time, or two and a half times backwards. That’s not all: skater Mitchie Brusco even turned on himself three times in 2019, i.e. 1260 degrees.
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