It's been a week for sure. The IG post and video has had over 800,000 views in a little over a week. I have skated for 50 years and never gotten much media until this past 3 years after skating at the World Skate Games in Argentina and Collin Kruse @couchslide followed me with my iphone and took race practice footage. I posted on the hill and it got traction.
World Skate Games posted this story "A Journey of a Lifetime"
Guinness World Record Holder & Skateboarding Legend: Judi Oyama
Judi Oyama enters Guinness World Records!, with my father's photo from the Capitola Classic.
Guinness World Record post Oldest competitive female skateboarder defies gravity and expectations to break record
By Katherine Gross Published 14 August 2025
Made the news last night on KNTV Bay Area NBC channel with Marianne Favro and her camera guy Jim who's from Santa Cruz. I am honored to get media attention this past year after not getting much my whole career.
We were going to skate and if they had a some breaking news story to go to we knew they might not make it.
We set up 50 cones 6 feet apart on a spot that is pretty flat and easy to get too. Thank you to walkers, joggers and bike riders for letting us use part of a lane. I usually drive to San Jose on Saturday mornings and meet up with a crew of skaters on a road that we've ridden on for over 17 years. We've seen some really crazy driving and 90 plus miles on a little remote road.
Last weekend we set up cones in this exact spot to run the Cyber Slalom 25 cones that was a world wide event. 21 spots around the world and we were one in Santa Cruz. We ran 4 runs both directions and posted a combined time. I was third overall in the women's division.
Thank you Josh Harvey and John Nakama for coming over and helping me set up and mark 25 more cones so now we have a 50 cone training spot.
I am currently ranked second in the women's world slalom skateboarding2023 season. ISSA International Slalom Skateboarding Association. I'm third overall 4 year overall Women's Ranking and second in the Women's Masters. It's a points system. It doesn't mean I'm the second or third fastest in the world but according to the averages of my racing and points. At the USA slalom races and from the World Skate Games I am the second fastest woman in the USA consistently getting second or third to Lynn Kramer the 17x World Champion. I'm happy with that just stoked to be racing and having fun.
21 spots around the world and we were one in Santa Cruz.
Never say never has always been my motto. Never give up and don't say you can't. Especially if you have a great skate coach and photographer like Gary Holl skating with you. Skating Lake Cunningham Skate Park in San Jose on May 1 with Raymond Beltran, Gary and friends was a blast. Never thought I'd ever be skating parks again after they closed down decades ago. If only we had what these skaters have. Wait we do. Now we have age and the mental game to add to the mix. Go skate! and wear a helmet.
