Nikolas
Plytas
Greece
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Waterskiing
Date of birth | 30 July 1995 |
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Place of birth | Athens |
Age | 30 |
Nationality | Greece |
Career start | 2006 |
Disciplines | Water Sports Various / Snowboard Slopestyle / Wing Foil / Foil Surfing |
Since he was a teenager, Nikolas Plytas has vowed to not only break his own personal records, but smash longstanding records laid down by other athletes.
At 19, he conquered the famous shipwreck at Elefsina, performing tricks over the rusty hull of the stranded ship. It was a perfect example of Nikolas’s ambition to take his tricks and jumps to new heights and find new, innovative spots to inspire his intensive training.
So far, Nikolas has made two spots in Greece his 'sporting homes' – Lake Caiaphas in Zacharo, and Aliartos Lake, where his coach George Hatzis owns Hatzis Waterski Paradise School. It was here that Nikolas also set a new national record at the first Hatzis Open, when he scored 8,780 points in the Men’s Tricks category.
When he’s not out on the water, Nikolas swaps his water ski board for a snowboard, taming the snowy slopes, and in 2021 he combined the two disciplines in one project entitled H20.
While being pulled by a jet ski along the icy waters of Lake Plastira, Nikolas performed unique tricks, before moving to Pertouliotika Livadia where, with the help of a portable electric winch, he snowboarded from the snowy areas into the streams, along bridges and over natural obstacles.
It took him months, more than 800 attempts, countless wipeouts and a journey that took him from the powerful wave beaches of the Peloponnese in Greece to the coasts of Portugal and the Maldives, but in 2025 Nikolas has made history by landing the world's first Double Backflip on a foil board.
For six months he poured everything he had into this one trick. It pushed him beyond his limits and became the most difficult challenge of his life, but in the end, determination won and a groundbreaking moment in foil boarding was born.