He was forced to drop out of school and get a job to help support himself and his mother. Sloan’s father died when he was 16 and still living in New York. I knew it would lift her spirit and the whole thing with cancer is about staying positive and that’s so hard to do when you’re the one dealing with it. “I was just telling myself to do it for my mom. “I was trying to calm my nerves at the top of the Mega Ramp,” says Sloan. Sloan’s first social media words after winning gold were, “We did it, Mom,” referencing his mother’s recent victory over cancer as he approached contest season. Nothing comes close to that in all the shit that I do.” So, to finally have that pressure relieved and also be completely stoked on landing my trick – it’s an incredible feeling. “I knew I needed to do a 900 and no one had ever done it with a tail grab,” says Sloan of his strategy to move up from third place. “No one has done that before.” This gold medal represents Sloan’s ninth career X Games podium. “I’ve never done that before,” says the fearless flyer, adrenaline still speeding through his hands. In pure gladiator fashion, Sloan victoriously raises his hands toward a cheering arena and spikes his skateboard onto the Mega Ramp.
“Then I went for it on my fourth run and made it.”
“I tried it in practice and during my third run and missed,” Sloan tells Rolling Stone. Reaching speeds of 45 MPH, he blasts a beautifully rotated Indy 720 over the gap and then an Indy Tail Grab 900 off the 27-foot-high quarter pipe – a trick that’s never been done before, earning Sloan the X Games gold medal in Big Air.
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Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, professional skateboarder Elliot Sloan checks his helmet, steps onto the front of his board and drops in. Looking down from the top of the 75-foot-high Mega Ramp inside the new U.S.
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