They are seen by young Japanese as "new era skateboarding heroes"
Do you remember what you were doing during your 13-year-old summer vacation? Interest class, or mud play?
The Japanese skateboarding girl Nishiyaki won a gold medal in her first Olympic Games in the summer vacation of her 13th birthday.
On July 26, Nishiya won the gold medal in the women's street skateboarding competition at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, becoming the youngest Olympic gold medalist in Japan's history.
For the Japanese people affected by various negative events such as the opening ceremony and the new crown epidemic in recent days, Nishiyaki's victory is undoubtedly a huge inspiration. To this end, everyone sent her blessings.
Image source: China-Japan News
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshinori Suga praised: "This is a feat, very touching!" ”
Osaka Governor Yofumi Yoshimura sighed, "Thank you for her strength for giving me, this is the pride of Osaka!" ”
At the end of the live broadcast event, anchor Daimachi Kurata couldn't help but shout: "13 years old!!! This is the great adventure of midsummer!!! ”
This is quite a hot voice of the second year, but it actually reflects the excitement of the Japanese people.
The world's mainstream media also rushed to report that Reuters praised Nishi's victory under the headline "Skateboarding Golden Generation Nishiyasuke's medal boom".
(Source: Sports Hochi)
In fact, skateboarding culture has been led by men for decades in Japan, and the 13-year-old Nishiyaki's victory actually created a future for women's skateboarding, greatly inspiring girls who are playing and about to skateboard.
13-year-old silly champion girl
Skateboarding, a new sport added to the Olympic Games, has a total of four sports, which are divided into two distinct competition modes: Street and Park.
The street style is a series of artificially made railings, stairs, benches, slopes and obstacles, using each facility to complete a skill and difficult skateboarding performance.
The park is a smooth bowl pond with mounds and embankments inside.
Take Nishiyaki's winning street style, for example, which mainly tests the player's skills such as jumping and spinning. In addition to the difficulty, success rate, and speed of the skill, the overall fluency and originality will also be taken into account. The order is free for the players to grasp, even if they fall in the middle, as long as they are still within the specified time, they can continue the game.
Nishiya reached the final with second place in the qualifiers. The second half of the first technical game of "Best Trick" reversed the situation in one fell swoop. Both the third and fourth innings were far ahead and won the championship.
Tournament commentator Misaki Seto praised Nishiya's performance, saying her skateboarding style was a pleasant sight to watch.
Setijiri became world-famous for his board in his 10s, and later chose to retire in order to train his juniors, and recently his popularity has soared with his unique style of skateboard commentary.
He likes to say the opposite, and the worse the comments, the stronger the players are:
"Sugo Issu" (super bar) = Titering power ★★
"Yaba Issu" = Tedsy power ★★★
"Ya-Bee" (Taibatsu) = Tate force ★★★★
"Yaba and it's odd" (I'm sorry to know!) ) = Titering power ★★★★★
For Nishiya's performance, Setojiri directly used the term "鬼ヤバい" (ghosts see it and feel terrible), which shows the strength of the strength.
In the game, in addition to the super strength, the most impressive thing is Nishiya's bright smile from beginning to end.
The so-called "girl who loves to laugh, luck will not be bad", this sentence is just used to describe Nishiyaki. She was smiling throughout the race, and even if she accidentally fell and made a mistake and her arm was bleeding, she would laugh and continue to slide.
Her smile is infectious, making the audience feel that she is enjoying the joy of skateboarding, not the game, and at the same time, it also makes the audience forget that this is a white-hot Olympic Games.
"I want to skate happily until the end." Behind the sparkling smile is the daily training she enjoys happily.
Nishiya was born on August 30, 2007 in Matsubara, Osaka. He just graduated from Matsubara Nishi Elementary School last year and is currently enrolled in Matsubara Junior High School. Influenced by her father and brother, she has been skateboarding since she was 5 years old.
(Source: Nishiyaki INS)
Her parents are very supportive of her skateboarding practice, and she will also take Nishiya to study the skateboarding videos of overseas players on major social platforms to learn from them.
Nishiyaki's skateboarding days are very happy, and she is not the kind of player who is desperate to practice hard. Her regular practice is from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
She enjoyed the practice process because she felt happy skateboarding with her friends.
It turns out that Nishiyaki is very talented for skateboarding. She has a strong sense of balance, and when she was an elementary school student at the age of 11, she won the silver medal in X-Games in 2019 and has since emerged. A good result of second place at this year's World Championships.
Talent, combined with her parents' support, keeps her daily practice in top shape, allowing her to constantly show difficult skills that are dwarfed by adults at the competition, and often shows high-scoring and difficult moves at the end of each competition.
However, Nishiyaki on the field is actually an ordinary 10-year-old child. When she doesn't skateboard, she will go to YOUTUBE to watch all kinds of funny videos, she will also play INS, and she especially likes to play Nintendo games in private.
Nishiya's ins, the style of painting is a child~
After winning the championship, she was also very cute and shy in front of the reporter's camera. When asked "Are you nervous about participating in the Olympics?" She replied, "No, it's no different from other big games." Before the game, he was still talking to his teammate Kamina Nakayama about the cartoon "Rascal the Raccoon" and his favorite music.
After winning the championship, she very much hoped that her mother would take her to eat barbecue. (Get the first place, eat a good meal!) It seems that the children of the whole world have the same wish. ）
Inside and outside the arena, Nishiya gave the impression of a "skateboard girl with a happy vitality".
However, she also has moments when her emotions are slightly out of control, that is, when she wins the gold medal, the tears of dou da roll down, and she won the gold medal in the first Olympic Games, I believe she is very excited inside.
(Photography: Yosuke Takabe)
"I want to be a celebrity that no one in the world knows." This victory is not the end, 13-year-old Nishiyaki is bent on sprinting for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Handsome "First King & Queen"
Like Nishiyaki, skateboarding is also ambitious by Yuto (Yudou Horimi) and Aori (Bili Nishimura). Both are japan's top young skaters who have been shining on the international stage for a long time.
Source: Horimi Yudou ins
Born in 1999, Yuto won the gold medal in the men's skateboarding street competition at the Tokyo Olympics on July 25 with a good score of 37.18 points, and was praised by the Japanese media as the "first king".
Image source: 2020.yahoo.co.jp
Yuto's fate with skateboarding benefited from his father. My father was also a skateboarder in his early years, and later when he got married, he promised his family not to play skateboarding and to work hard to support his family. Later, his father has been working hard to support his family, and life is not easy, but he has always had a "skateboarding dream" burning in his heart. ("Head Text D" is visual sense.)
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One day, he took 6-year-old Yuto to Komatsugawa Skate Park in Tokyo and handed him skateboarding.
Yuto, who inherited his father's business, loves skateboarding very much, and shows his talent in the practice process, he does not simply imitate others, but actively challenges skills that are different from others, skills that no one can.
In his early 10s, Yuto became Japan's top skater, winning the Japan Skateboarding Association's annual championship for two consecutive years in 2014 and 2015.
The source of the image is Youtube@SankeiNews
He later flew to Los Angeles to practice skateboarding skills, finishing runner-up at the 2017 skateboarding world's top professional tour "Street League" and becoming the first Japanese champion in 2018.
Image source: number.bunshun.jp
Aori, 2 years younger than Yuto, has been skateboarding since she was 7 years old and has won international skateboarding events frequently in recent years.
Image source: olympics.com
In the 2017 X-Game women's competition, she was very calm against the first-line female skaters, and won the championship with a series of difficult flap moves, becoming the first X-Game Japanese champion.
In 2019, he won the World Skateboarding Championship organized by World Skate and SLS. Won this year's World Championship. As a representative of The Japanese women's skaters, many people think that Aori will win the gold medal in this Olympic Games.
Unfortunately, in this Olympic Games, Aori accidentally landed on the ground during pre-competition practice, resulting in knee pain and recurrence of old injuries. But she insisted on bringing injuries to the court, ending in the final in eighth place.
What Aori admires most is her tenacity and perseverance. In order to pursue the perfection of an action, even if the terrain is wide and terrible, she is bound to take it.
Yuto and Aori, who are similar in age, have shined on the international stage with their respective strengths, and they are regarded by Japanese young people as "skateboarding heroes of the new era", attracting many Young Japanese people to skateboard.
Rather embarrassing Japanese skateboarding culture
The growth experiences of Nishiya, Yuto, and Aori have a lot in common:
Skateboarding was introduced as a child, their parents were very supportive, and they were both talented and mentally focused, so they were able to become famous at a young age and become famous around the world.
Behind their success, it is inseparable from Japanese skateboarding culture.
In the 1970s, American street culture began to have an impact on Japan, and with it came the emerging skateboarding culture on the West Coast of the United States.
At that time, there was no professional skateboarding venue in Japan, and young people who loved skateboarding culture began to secretly transform the university playground into a skate park, and now the streets and alleys that are "banned from skating" are their favorite parks.
In the 1980s, parks and street boardhouses were available for skateboarders across Japan, and community parks were opened to board girls.
The hall-of-fame skateboard magazine "Transworld Skateboard" launched the Japanese special issue "Transworld Japan", coupled with many magazines including "Ollie" and "POPEYE", various world skateboard brands attracted many young people in the form of demonstration competitions, more and more board girls on the street, and Japanese skateboard culture ushered in the first golden period.
Japanese skateboarding brands such as Evisen Skateboards, Chaos Fishing Club, Diaspora Skateboards, etc. all have a significant influence on Japanese skateboarding culture.
In terms of education, Japanese people encourage children to participate in sports, especially challenging sports, which can cultivate resilience and stimulate morale. Therefore, parents are very active in signing up their children for skateboarding classes and hiring coaches.
Therefore, the level of Japanese skateboarding has been in line with international standards. In recent years, there have been many skateboarding prodigies, such as Mitani Tiger, who was also born in 2007, and has made rapid progress in street skateboarding at a young age, with its own distinct style.
However, mainstream Japanese society still looks at skateboarding with colored glasses.
Skateboarding has had rebellious, anti-mainstream attributes since its inception. In fact, most Japanese people nowadays do not like skateboarding very much, they feel that skateboarding is noisy, noisy and dangerous, and they will also feel that the board girls who play skateboarding are "not doing their jobs" and "idle", and some board girls will be asked to search for bags.
Therefore, the current position of skateboarding in Japan is still quite awkward.
Even though it has been included in the Olympic program, skateboarding is banned on the streets of Tokyo. In order to promote the sport of skateboarding, Many skateboarding fields in Japan have moved to the suburbs or small cities.
However, as more and more young board girls shine on the international stage such as the Olympic Games, it should be able to change the stereotype of skateboarding in The Japanese.
"Skateboarding is fun, I hope everyone can play." As Nishiya said, she hopes that her victory will allow more people to participate in the skateboarding project.
After all, skateboarding is not the same as other competitive sports, less gunpowder flavor, more human touch. Everyone on the field spurred on each other, encouraged each other, learned from each other, cheered each other on, and comforted each other.
Even after falling, no one shed tears or laughed; even if there are wounds on the body that are bleeding, they will continue to move forward.
Enjoy the moment and enjoy freedom. This is the joy and emotion that sports bring to people!
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