Isamu Yamamoto (''Yamamoto Isamu'' ) is a Japanese world

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champion. At age fourteen, Yamamoto took first place at the World Freestyle Round-Up Skateboarding Championships in

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. He was the first person to win the World Round-Up Freestyle Championships using two skateboards at the same time. He was the subject of the

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He did not compete in the

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, the first

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to feature skateboarding because freestyle is not one of the two styles selected (street and park disciplines) to be part of the games by the

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. He was inspired to start skating when his father Shoji (a former skateboarder) showed him videos of freestyle skateboarder Rodney Mullen, ''“He is the reason. He inspired me and made me start”. Yamamoto learned to skate in skateparks in

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.'' On Yamamoto, Mullen said:

''The way he links his tricks together and the speed of them – it’s beautiful to watch, I would dare say that not many could do that, in that way, if they tried.'' ''Isamu is one of the most impressive freestyle skaters of his generation''

External links

ISAMU: a Short Skate film

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yamamoto, Isamu Freestyle skateboarders Japanese skateboarders 2003 births Living people 21st-century Japanese sportsmen