Will Slalom Skateboarding and Downhill Racing make the next Olympics? Oldest skate career making some Herstory!

First slalom race with Lisa Harner Capitola 1975 Photo: Richard Oyama

Second downhill race Capitola Classic 1980 from the Independent Trucks Built to Grind book. Photo: Reg Caseilli

Santa Cruz Sentinel Article my mom cut out. I was the only woman racing downhill the year before. I have no photos and placed middle of the pack.

Hood River World Championships 2012 Photo: Steven King

Nevada City 2018 Photo: John Ravitch

The Bar (Bad Ass Ramp) at the Texas Sizzler is 9' tall on the far right and left images. It is tall and wobbly. No joke and you can't see the bottom and you go in kind of blind. You have a choice for a regular ramp and a shorter one. I am not sure if they are going to do that at the March race coming up. 

Female Asian-American Professional Skateboarder Judi Oyama Wikipedia Page

So cool to get a Judi Oyama Wikipedia page for skateboarding. 

Thank you for whoever added me.

 I don't always get the coverage other women skaters did during the 70's. I have been skating none stop since I started and finally getting some credit. I hope I inspired other vert, downhill and women, they, them he or she skateboarders that love skateboarding as much as I do. Never Stop!

Judi Oyama Wiki Page

 

Badass Skatemom CrossFit Video Skateboard Hall of Fame

May 4th I was inducted into the Skateboard Hall of Fame. Here is a quick post about how this video got made. I'm currently in Madison WI working in my hotel room before heading to the Scoring Bat Cave room where I'm working on all of the event score cards for the judges. The past two years I've done score cards as well as worked in Media in photography and downloaded and ingested photos of the games. It has always been fun but so stressful to have to be in two places at the same time. When you leave one room and they say hurry back and then the other room is waiting for you to power and get their work done which is super time sensitive and accuracy is to the detail. 10-12 hour days the norm and last year the food was awful this year they are trying but they still don't get the Crossfit style diet. Fresh vegetables not from a can, no sugar and no preservatives please.

Big thank you to Tyson Oldroyd Coordinating Producer, CrossFit HQ Media he had the idea to do a video on my skateboarding and CrossFit. Thanks Sevan (Executive Director of Media and Content, CrossFit Inc.)for letting him do it. Thanks to the awesome Lindsay and Elliot Schrock of Schrock Films

The Schrocks arrived on Tuesday night. They videoed me working out at the regular 8:30 HQ class with Jenny Lau the most awesome coach. We met two hours later at the NHS museum thanks Rich Novak and Bob Denike for letting me shoot there with them. I ran home they went back to HQ. We got to use the CrossFit Sprinter Van and they came by the house and picked up my family and we all headed down to Anaheim. We had plans on hitting a few parks on the way down but we lost a day so we had to compress everything. We arrived late on Thursday. Friday am we met in the Hotel they did a interview while my family went off to a sporting goods store. I'm not comfortable getting photographed or interviewed I prefer the other side of the camera photo art directing or styling the shoot. After the interview in my hotel room we met up and went to a local park. I had scouted a few close by. It was hot in the 90's and it was more of a street course with tons of guys. We went to another park in Fountain Valley 10 minutes away the traffic was a mess from construction. Found the park it had guys in it but it was more my style with rollins and coping but nothing too gnarly.

When I first arrived I was a bit intimidated with the guys there looking at the big black van that rolled up me getting out and then Elliot following me around with the camera. I was thinking they are going to be so unimpressed with my riding but fuck it. By the time we were done the guys were so nice and they were snapchatting and we were stoked to have met.

We drove back to the hotel I had two hours to get ready for the Skateboard Hall of Fame. I practiced my speech a few times. I was nervous but happy. My friend Frances arrived and we went to the event.

Thank you to Maria Carrasco for the slalom racing footage my slalom racing sponsor Sk8kings. James Cassimus for his Capitola shot, Michael "Smiley" Goldmann for his Winchester footage, Gary Medeiros for the plexiglass shot. James Sweigert for the N-men footage. I'm honored to get this video. Thanks John Ravitch, my dad Richard Oyama who I've not had the time to go by and show the video too.

Thanks friends that I asked for high resolution images.

Don't miss the N-men Documentary Trailer link

List of Skateboard Hall of Fame 2018 Inductees and I'm one!

Photo: Bill Golding

I am truly honored to be included in this years Skateboard Hall of Fame 2018 induction. Yesterday at noon I watched the Facebook live announcement. I told myself to be prepared to not get in so I wouldn't be disappointed. To my surprise I was the first person announced by Laura Thornhill. Congrats to Pattie Hoffman who was the only other female to make this years SHOF. More will get in. It was the first time I was on the list.

Thank you to all my friends and family that supported my skateboarding passion. To Cindy Whitehead and John Ravitch who always believed when I did not.

Here is the ticket info on the event set for a special Starwars May the 4th be with you date.

DESCRIPTION

Enjoy a night of fun, friends and great memories as we honor the skateboarders, industry pioneers and icons that have left an indelible imprint on the history of skateboarding and our culture. The 8th Annual Skateboarding Hall of Fame and Icon Awards Ceremony presented by House of Vans will be held at the City National Grove of Anaheim, California on May 4, 2018. 2018 Inductees

1960s: Tommy Ryan

1970s Era 1: Mike Weed

1970s Era 2: David Hackett and Brad Bowman

1980s Era 1: Allen Losi

1980s Era 2: Matt Hensley

1990s: Guy Mariano

Female: Pattie Hoffman and Judi Oyama

Icons: Skateboarder Magazine, Bahne Skateboards, and Jeff Ho

Event Schedule 5:00 PM VIP HAPPY HOUR

6:15 PM VIP DINNER

6:30 PM GENERAL ADMISSION

7:30 PM SKATEBOARDING HALL OF FAME CEREMONY

10:00 PM Special Musical Guest

11:00 PM BARS CLOSE

12:00 PM VENUE CLOSE

All proceeds benefit the not-for-profit efforts of the International Skateboarding Hall of Fame and the Go Skateboarding Foundation. The Skateboarding Hall of Fame and Icon Awards Ceremony is a production of the International Association of Skateboard Companies under license from the International Skateboarding Hall of Fame™.

Who made the 2018 Skateboarding Hall of Fame

2018 Skateboarding Hall of Fame nominees

I've been skateboarding since 1973. I skate because I love skateboarding. Thank you everyone for the calls, texts, likes and comments. I am truly thankful.

There are several men's categories. I don't want to complain but putting all the women in one category is rough. Each decade had it's hero's. The bowl riding we did in the 70's is nothing like what these women and girls can do now. I've ridden since 1973. My first race was in 1973 my last race was Nevada City 2017.

First Capitola Race photo my dad Richard Oyama

Nevada City race 2016 and 2017 photos Brad T. Miller

Team Santa Cruz NorCal N-men crew photo taken at the Sierra Wave in Sacramento 70's

Winchester Skatepark

Female I put links to the women. If you want a different link let me know. Congrats to all of the ladies! and the men.

Brenda Devine (RIP)

Colleen Boyd 

Deanna Calkins 

Desiree Von Essen Harrington

Edie Robertson

Judi Oyama

Linda Benson

Pattie Hoffman

Tina Trefethen 

1. 1960's

Cliff Coleman

Cris Dawson

Dave Hilton

John Fries

Tommy Ryan

2. 1970's Era One

Bob Biniak

Chris Yandall

Denis Shufeldt

John Hutson

Mike Weed

Waldo Autry

3. 1970's Era Two

Brad Bowman

Chris Strople

David Hackett

Dennis Martinez

Doug "Pineapple" Saladino

Kevin "The Worm" Anderson

Rick Blackhart

Tom Inouye

4. 1980's Era One

Allen Losi

Billy Ruff

John "Tex" Gibson

Lester Kasai

Micke Alba

Mike Smith

5. 1980's Era Two

Jeff Grosso

Jeff Phillips

Jesse Martinez

Matt Hensley

Mike Vallely

Ray Barbee

6. 1990's

Chad Muska

Guy Mariano

Jason Lee

Kareem Campbell

Kris Markovich

Pat Duffy

Salman Agah

Sean Sheffey

Tom Penny

7. Female

Brenda Devine

Colleen Boyd 

Deanna Calkins

Desiree Von Essen Harrington

Edie Robertson

Judi Oyama

Linda Benson

Pattie Hoffman

Tina Trefethen 

First High School Sports Hall of Fame for Skateboarding? Female Skateboarder

I am honored to be inducted into the Aptos High School Sports Hall of Fame for Skateboarding, following other actions sports athletes like Big Wave Surfers Peter Mel, Tyler Fox founder of Santa Cruz Waves and extreme skier Cody Townsend. His dad Jamie was my English Teacher. The special ceremonies and awards banquet Saturday, April 29 at Seascape Golf Club. The Hall of Fame event begins with Social Hour at 4 p.m., with dinner and the program beginning at 5 p.m. 610 Clubhouse Dr, Aptos, CA 95003 Phone: 688-3213

More info. Sports Hall of Fame 2017 Aptos Times article here Winchester Skatepark photo January 1979 photo by Michael Smiley Goldman 10" pink pool 2 feet vert. Directions

Missed the Skateboard Hall of Fame 2015

I'm in Colorado finishing the last details of John DeAndrea's new website and helping on a casting today. I choose not to go to the HOF until I see my friend Cindy Whitehead inducted. I'm not afraid to say it's political just like Skateboarder magazine was back in the day. Not being a negative or a bad egg just telling the facts. I'm proud of Henry Hester and Duane Peters for getting in from the Santa Cruz Skateboard Team as well as all of the other inductees.

Cindy has been skating since the 70's, had "Girl is not a 4 Letter Word" and has been an advocate to helping women in skateboarding for decades and she didn't even make the list. In general, many of the skaters in the 60's and 70's are getting older and several should be inducted per year. I'm glad they are at least picking more than one woman per year as they did in the beginning.

I'm looking forward to assisting John DeAndrea and Lorraine today in a casting of a new piece. Here are a few images of John's museum show we went to after they picked me up at the airport on Thursday and a studio shot.

Work currently at the Denver Art Museum.

Horse structure.

Studio

The Horse was made by Judith Wagner if you want one yourself she has a mold in Colorado. It is impressive in size and beautiful close up. Below is a photo from her website.