At the new competition skateboarding, Women's Street, 13-year-old Kabuki Nishiya won the gold medal, the youngest Japanese player in history, and 16-year-old Funa Nakayama also won the bronze medal.
Why is Japan so strong?
Make mistakes with a run and improve your score with the best trick
Nakayama passed the qualifying in 1st place and Nishiya in 2nd place, and the final was reached.
In the first two runs, both of them made mistakes in landing, but the best tricks after that increased the score at once.
I want to show you a high score with your favorite technique
In the second best trick, Nakayama succeeded in a high jump with the "front side K grind" that slides the metal part that connects the wheels diagonally, which is the technique that he was most good at and wanted to show, and marked a high score of 5.00.
And Nishiya is also the 4th best trick.
I jumped on my favorite technique, jumped on the railing while rotating the board, decided on the "Big Spin Board Slide" to slide the board, and got a high score of 4.66 and took the lead at once.
Regarding this technique, Nishiya said with a smile, "The first big technique I made. It's not always decided, but I'm glad that it was decided at the Olympics."
The positive words that I want to show and like are impressive.
Nishimura of Ace I was hurt my leg
Aori Nishimura, the ace who won the world championship twice, hurt his leg in the practice on the 25th and was not in a good condition, and while finishing in 8th place, the 13-year-old and 16-year-old who showed rapid growth all stood on the podium. ..
With this, Japan is a new competition skateboarding, following Yuto Horigome on Men's Street, and has won medals for the second consecutive day.
Japanese players are enthusiastic about research
Why is Japan so strong?
Japan national team coach Takashi Nishikawa analyzes, "Japanese players are enthusiastic about research. We are researching what kind of technique we should do to get how many points. That is reflected in the results."
The influence of the booming parent generation
Furthermore, the environment unique to Japan seems to have a great impact.
22-year-old Horimai and 19-year-old Nishimura started skateboarding under the influence of their father.
What they have in common is that both fathers have been skateboarding since they were students.
And that was exactly the 1990s when skateboarding was booming in Japan.
That generation became parents, and a cycle of teaching skateboarding to children was born, and now the children are growing up and playing an active role as the center of Japanese skateboarding players.
Will a virtuous cycle be born as a powerful country?
Then, a younger generation who longs for Horimai and Nishimura has emerged.
Director Nishikawa also feels that the times have changed, saying, "In the past, many people attended competitions while working, but now parents have an understanding and can take on challenges overseas from a young age."
Nishiya, who won the gold medal, said with a smile, "I want to be so famous that no one in the world knows about my future goals."
A medal rush at the Olympic Games created by the continuous Japanese skateboarding world.
It will be interesting to see if Japan will continue to have a virtuous cycle as a skateboarding powerhouse.