Surfer Dubbed “The Magician” Pulls Off Never Been Done Trick (Video)

The clip comes from the pool at Waco Surf, deep in the heart of Texas. Torkos stomps the flip about mid-wave, similar to how he’s previously done them in the ocean. In fact, that specific detail of his patented maneuver spurred some controversy a while back.

You see, a handful of years back, Volcom held a digital contest for the first person to land a kickflip on a surfboard. The prize money for the winner was $10,000. Torkos had seemingly pulled it off, however, his kickflip was not “above the lip,” as stated in the rules. After some back-and-forth, Volcom still ended up giving Torkos the money – and he stuck one off the lip later, as well, just for good measure. And now, years later, Torkos is still doing the maneuver.

It's not just kickflips, either. It appears that, during his trip to Waco, the magician dug deeper into his bag of tricks, and also executed a darkslide – another skateboarding-inspired trick in which one flips the board over halfway, then rides (or grinds) with the deck facing down. It’s not every day you see something like this on surf craft, let alone a skateboard even.

But Zoltan is cut from a different cloth, and he proudly lets that freak flag fly.