Southampton snowboarder Billy Morgan will go into an end-of-season anterior cruciate ligament operation with a wide grin on his face after making history.

Morgan has just returned from a snowboarding season competing in Europe and the USA.

But, just before he came home, he decided that he’d push the boundaries of what the planet thought possible.

The 26-year-old, who represented Great Britain at the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014, pulled-off a world-first by completing five rotations off a monster kicker, otherwise referred to as a backside 1800 quadruple cork.

Morgan managed the achievement in Livingo, Italy on the final day of his boarding campaign.

Many snowboard fans had dubbed Morgan the only rider capable of this feat, and so it proved true.

“We just came across from Austria for one day to hit this jump,” he said, after touching down in London. “It’s a normal progression going from singles, doubles and triples.

“So my coach got everything in place and we then we’ve got to get conditions bang-on.

“There are so many factors you have to work around, but we had everything in place, the weather was perfect.

“There had been rumours other people had tried it in the last few days but, no videos had appeared so guess no one has done it.

“It was the end of the season and just before I go into an ACL operation on Monday.

“It’s amazing to achieve something like this, but I admit it hasn’t fully sunken in yet.”

Morgan confesses that he remembers little of the actual air-time that saw him flip four times, while his body made five complete rotations on a sideways or downward-facing axis.

And even though he’d achieved that he still wasn’t fully satisfied as the manoeuvre, which saw him better the previous biggest trick – a triple cork 1620 landed by Yuki Kadano at March's US Open Slopestyle – saw him put his hand down to steady the landing.

“I can’t remember anything until the landing,” he said. “There are so many thought processes that you’re going that you have no time to process what you’re going through.

“It was my first go at it.

“So stoked,” he added. “I’ve been thinking about this for so long, it’s such a relief to have it done. It could be cleaner, but I’m still pumped.”Although Billy was barely in the air for three seconds, it took around 40 to 50 hours for the Red Bull team, who sponsors him, to prepare the jump.

Billy’s admits that progression from this could be in a “less risky, more technical” jump, but is now focussing on getting through his ACL operation and recovering ahead of the new winter campaign.