As Japanese athletes continue to win medals on skateboarding at the Tokyo Olympics, elementary school students were inspired by the activities of medalists at a skateboarding school in Koto-ku, Tokyo, and were practicing.
At the skateboard school, which is about 2 kilometers from the skateboard competition venue of the Tokyo Olympics, a classroom for beginner children was held on the afternoon of the 26th.
Six people, including local elementary school students, participated in the classroom and learned basic movements such as how to ride a board from a professional and worked on practice.
Of these, the girls in the second grade of elementary school applied for participation after seeing Yuto Horigome's gold medal.
The girl said, "I saw the video of the gold medal on Keisa TV and I thought it was cool and I wanted to do it. I enjoyed skateboarding."
Also, on the 26th, a boy in the fifth grade of elementary school said that 13-year-old Kabuki Nishiya won the gold medal. It's difficult but fun, so I'd like to go to the Olympics someday. "
Since it was decided that skateboarding will be adopted as a new competition for the Tokyo Olympics, the number of members of this school has increased, mainly among elementary school students, and the number of members has more than doubled from the same period last year.
Ryuhei Kobayashi of "HLNA", who runs the school, said, "There are many Japanese players who are attracting attention, and young people are excited. SNS has spread and you can see videos of overseas players, and you can see yourself on your smartphone. You can now check the slippage of the skateboard, and the level has risen. The skateboard still has a negative image, but it is a bad image by not slipping where it should not be slipped and thorough manners. I want to get rid of it. "