Aoi Ishimaru

Damn Am Japan 2023 Qualifiers and Best Trick: Presented by Cariuma – SPoT Life

How much great skating can you pack into one warehouse in Murakami City? To make it to the next round at Damn Am Japan you're going to have to be one of the best skaters in the country. Watch now to see who came through and follow @SPoTTampa to find out what Cariuma and the Damn Am crew have coming up next

filmed and edited by Frank Branca

Think of the most difficult thing you’ve ever done. That’s still way easier than trying to stand out among all of the hoard of skaters that showed up for Damn Am Japan. And this is just practice! Stay tuned and follow us at @SPoTTampa and find out what Cariuma and the Damn Am have coming up next. SPoTTampa.com.

video by Frank Branca

Damn Am Japan 2022 Qualifiers and Best Trick: Presented by Cariuma – SPoT Life

How much great skating can you do in three minutes? To make it to the next round at Damn Am Japan the answer better be “A LOT.” If not there’s always the chance of landing a miracle move in Best Trick. Watch now to see who came through and follow @SPoTTampa to find out what Cariuma and the Damn Am have coming up next. SPoTTampa.com.

Exposure X Full Length Video

This full-length skate video features over 100 women, trans and nonbinary skaters. Skaters submitted their video parts in an effort to win a piece of a $55,000 prize purse in Santa Cruz Best Video Part Street (14 & Under, 15-29 & 30+ age divisions), Independent Best Video Part Transition (14 & Under, 15-29 & 30+ age divisions), Krux Best Crew Video, Independent Best Trick Street, Skatelite Best Trick Transition and the Impala Skate Rising Award.

This video features full video parts from the top scoring submissions as well as cameos from every video sent in for Exposure X 2021.

Exposure X submission were judged by Elissa Steamer, Vanessa Torres, Alex White, Jaime Reyes and Amelia Brodka

2021 World Rookie Skateboard Finals

From the heart of the Alps, Innsbruck, Austria, hosted the 2021 edition of the World Rookie Skateboard Finals, and welcomed 70 skateboarders rapresenting 17 nations, pre-selected throw a series of 10 WRT qualifing events accross Europe and Japan.

The event was not only a competition but inclued as well street session around Innsbruck and workshops.

The skateboard competition in the high quality Innbrusck Shatehalle showcased a great level of skateboarding and awarded incredible prizes: World Champion Titles, tickets to Simple Session and Mystic Sk8 Cup and special prizes by Red Bull Skateboarding and many products by our partners TSG and Blue Tomato.

Rookie Male
1. Raimu Sasaki JPN - World Rookie Champion
2. Noel Scharer SUI
3. Santino Exenberger AUT

Rookie Female
1. Aoi Ishimaru JPN - World Rookie Champion
2. Lena Muller SUI
3. Alisa Fessl AUT

Grom Male
1. Toa Sasaki JPN - World Grom Champion
2. Andres Fusconi Ravaglia ITA
3 . Rocco Muller SUI

Grom Female
1. Liv Broder SUI - World Gromp Champion
2. Margarida Cepeda PRT
3. Zoe Van Essen SUI

2021 OSAKA ROOKIE FEST !.mov

Black Yeti landed in Japan, for the first event of the World Rookie Tour Skateboard in Asia! Good vibrations and an awesome skateboarding level welcomed 54 young rippers at the brand news Akamaru Skatepark in Osaka, opened in 2020.

Shingo Shiotani, organizer and local legend, has made possible the event, making it a part of the tour named “6556 CUP”. So the first event of the tour, 6556 CUP Vol.1, became the first World Rookie Tour Asian qualifying event. Thanks Shingo, from the all WRT staff!

About the contest, it is nice remembering that the youngest skater was Kai Wataru, just 7 years old, while the oldest was 19 years old. Ishimaru Aoi (16 years old) was the best Girls, Sasaki Toa the best Grom Boy (14 years old), and Sasaki Raimu (17 years old) the Rookie winner.

Big thanks to the great MC Rei Takazawa and DJ Arisha Sakata: with their reggae music made people very excited!

Thanks also to the star skate judges Masahiro Sakata, Masatoshi Kimura and Kotaro Kawai!