Cool Japanese American Instagram post from Jason Chu Hopefully people will see it's two different skaters and not get us confused.
We now tag each other if people post wrong photos. Google has Shugo Kubo and images wrong. She is super sweet and we would probably skate together if we lived closer.
Video about me was great to see.
Judi Oyama, Born in Santa Cruz to parents who’d survived America’s WWII Japanese American concentration camps, Judi Oyama started winning skate contests in her teens. At 18, she went pro on Santa Cruz. Then nearly 25 years later, she came back to downhill - winning world slalom championships and repping the USA at the world skate games. She’s still an active skater today.
This IG post on Jason's IG page about Peggy Oki who is more well known than I am for being in the Z boys and an early pioneer in skateboarding.
Peggy Oki, The Z-Boys changed modern skateboarding forever with their raw, fast, street style. And Peggy Oki (@peggy_oki) was the only woman on the team. The daughter of a master bonsai gardener grew up surfing, biking, and skating around Dogtown Venice Beach on a board her brother made for her in shop class.
She took 1st place at the legendary 1975 Del Mar nationals, but quickly tired of the artificial atmosphere of skate contests. Peggy just wanted to skate. Her love of the outdoors became an ongoing passionate commitment to conservation, creating the Origami Whale Project (@cetaceans_org) to stop the commercial hunting of whales.
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