Isamu Yamamoto

Isamu Yamamoto is a Japanese world freestyle skateboarding champion, born on 26 April 2003. At fourteen he took first place at the World Freestyle Round-Up Skateboarding Championships in British Columbia, Canada, and he was the first person to win those championships using two skateboards at the same time. He is the subject of the Brett Novak film ISAMU. He did not compete in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, the first to include skateboarding, because freestyle was not one of the two styles, street and park, chosen by the International Olympic Committee. His father Shoji, a former skateboarder, inspired him by showing him videos of the freestyler Rodney Mullen, and he learned to skate in skateparks in Nara.