Back in Florida for the 26th annual Tampa Pro and the Monster Energy skate team was firing!
1st place, Men’s Street: Nyjah Huston
2nd Place, Men’s Street: Shane O’Neill
3rd place, Men’s Street: Ishod Wair
Independent Best Trick: Nyjah Huston
Back in Florida for the 26th annual Tampa Pro and the Monster Energy skate team was firing!
1st place, Men’s Street: Nyjah Huston
2nd Place, Men’s Street: Shane O’Neill
3rd place, Men’s Street: Ishod Wair
Independent Best Trick: Nyjah Huston
Winning a contest and doing miles in the van are two different skill sets, and whether you’re out for gold or pulling back cold gold, it’s all just skateboarding with your friends in the end. No mailbox, gas station, park or airport is safe when you put this crew together and hit the road in the lead up to Tokyo. From Texas to Toronto, featuring Yuto Horigome, Grant Taylor, Nyjah Huston, Ishod Wair, Hayley Wilson, Donovon Piscopo and Nicole Hause. Round 2 coming soon.
Jeron Wilson joins us as we discuss the Antihero Skateboards: Arbitrary Function video, Inside Nyjah Huston’s Laguna Beach Mansion and Private Skatepark, Henry Gartland: True Grit | Santa Cruz Skateboards, Place Presents: Mobina & Melika, Nestor Judkins part and much more! Also, we’re picking 3 winners for last weeks raffle of The Nine Club’s white elephant gift exchange. This weeks raffle is 2 “My First Skateboard” books written by Karl Watson and a very mini My First Skateboard deck.
Nyjah Huston takes #7 on the X Games Top Ten list. Nyjah Huston had already earned consecutive X Games Skateboard Street gold when he prepped for his final run — the final run of the entire contest — at X Games Shanghai. But he wasn’t even on the podium after Run 2 in China. He needed to crush his last pass. And of course he did, because delivering under pressure is exactly what Nyjah does.
He finished with an emphatic claim, too, raising his arms in triumph when he nailed his ender, the nollie flip noseblunt slide. There also was relief, because he nearly hung up on the trick. The Shanghai victory was his 10th X Games Street gold and 11th XG gold overall (2012 Real Street). He went on to add another gold and a silver at X Games Minneapolis, and he now has 18 total XG medals.
Kairi just smoked 250 of the best amateurs in the world, and now his name is on the winners list alongside legends like Donny Barley, Luan Oliveira, Nyjah Huston, and so many more. Congratulations!
How do you showcase the smoothest roll in skateboarding? Just hang out and watch Nyjah & D-Loy flip around all the people cruising down Hollywood Blvd.
Watch the Monster team battle it out at the SLS São Paulo Super Crown with Nyjah taking the Men’s Super Crown Championship and Rayssa Leal landing second overall.
When it comes down to it, Tampa Am and Tampa Pro are truly anybody’s for the taking. It just so happens that if you can drop runs as powerfully as Nyjah can, you’re probably gonna take home a win. Rewatch Nyjah’s Tampa Pro 2014 winning run now.
We haven’t done this before, but maybe we should do it more? 100 Kickflips by Nyjah Huston in his Nike SB Nyjah Free. Just the skating, no talking, no breaks. – CCS
The Smoothest Roll in Skateboarding.
CCS has been trying to get Nyjah on the 100 Kickflip challenge forever, because they knew it would not be a challenge at all. Sure enough he banged out 100 in less than 20 minutes total, and only missed about 2 or 3. That’s not even the crazy part. The craziest part is that his shoe, the Nike SB Nyjah Free barely even broke a sweat let alone ripped a lace. See how this superhuman shoe held up to superhuman skating and then pick up a pair today at CCS.com!
Watch the highlights from the Skateboard Best Trick event, where Nyjah Huston took gold, Sunday at X Games Minneapolis 2019.