Ginwoo Onodera

Ginwoo Onodera

February 15, 2010 (Age 16)

Japan

Regular

In skateboarding, the role of the new kid in town is a well-established one by this point: variously played by people like Danny Way, Guy Mariano, and indeed Nyjah Huston at different times; a new-generational talent who seems to have skipped the learning years and arrived fully-formed at cutting-edge pro standard with time on their side and a relatively clean injury sheet. That talent today is Japan’s Ginwoo Onodera. At the 2022 WST World Championships in Sharjah, he held his own - cut knee and all - against a field in which the last 32 were all established contest-skating ‘names’, to come out as a Bronze medalist at the first time of asking. Think about that.