The pressure from the world surfing community appears to have paid off. Volcom has now announced that they have flip-flopped on their original ruling and will pay Santa Cruz’s Zoltan Torkos the $10,000 for his kickflip. Not only that, they are now upping the award on the first high performance, above-the-lip kickflip to $20,000.
After further review Volcom has decided to reward Zoltan the $10K for his groundbreaking maneuver, and at the same time redefine the rules and double the prize money on the elusive “above and off the lip kickflip” now worth $20,000. . . “We really want to celebrate Zoltan’s successful kickflip, and continue to push the concept of futuristic surfing. Zoltan was the first and we feel shouldn’t be the last,” said Volcom’s Director of Surfing, Mike Guarino.
Nice. We kind of figured they’d come around. Volcom will release a video later this week that outlines the new kickflip competition more clearly defined rules. Looks like Zoltan has the chance to double down as he’s obviously already the closest surfer to the next $20,000.
So what ever happened to Josh Sleigh? Didn’t he pull off a kickflip over a year ago, but only had a sequence and not video? His was proper above the lip trick too.
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