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Monster Energy, The Official Energy Drink Partner of X Games Osaka 2025, Heads to Japan with Roster of Top Competing Athletes
73rd Edition of World's Premier Action Sports Competition to Feature World's Best BMX, Moto X, and Skateboard Athletes at Kyocera Dome from June 20-22, 2025 OSAKA, Japan, June 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- X Games Osaka is almost here! The world's premier showcase in action sports competition will return to Japan in a few days. From June 20-22, X Games Osaka 2025 will stoke fans with history-making performances across BMX, Moto X, and Skateboard disciplines inside Kyocera Dome stadium. Monster Energy, the official energy drink partner of X Games, is ready to send its team of world-class athletes to X Games Osaka 2025. This press release announces the official line-up of competing athletes for the event, ready to Unleash the Beast in Japan. X Games Osaka 2025 marks the 73rd edition of X Games since the contest's inception in 1995. It's the fourth consecutive edition of X Games in Japan. After three successful events in Chiba, the spectacle now moves to the bustling metropolis of Osaka. Across three days at X Games Osaka 2025, a confirmed 82 athletes from 13 countries will compete for 36 medals in 12 events in BMX, Moto X, and Skateboarding disciplines. All competitions will be streamed live on the official X Games YouTube page. Monster Energy is ready to shine in this invite-only event with an elite team of riders, including defending X Games gold medalists, upcoming rookies, and Olympic medalists. Look out for the following Monster Energy athletes in key events at X Games Osaka 2025: Saturday at X Games Osaka 2025 will kick off with the highly anticipated Women's Skateboard Vert competition. All eyes will be on the global phenomenon, 15-year-old Arisa Trew from Palm Beach, Australia. Known for pushing the boundaries of women's vertical skateboarding, Trew most recently clinched gold in Skateboard Vert at X Games 2024 and gold in Skateboard Park at X Games Chiba 2024 – bringing her gold count to five(!) medals. She will be facing heat from hometown hero and Monster Army rider Asahi Kaihara from Osaka, owner of two bronze medals in the discipline. And don't count out reigning Women's Skateboard Park World Champion Raicca Ventura (Monster Army) from Brazil in an explosive final. Switching gears into BMX Park, the Monster squad is stacked with heavy hitters: Leading the charge, Kevin Peraza from Tucson, Arizona, is looking to improve on his silver medal in the discipline from X Games Ventura 2024 and expand his collection of 11 X Games medals (7 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze). Prepare for an intense battle with Olympic gold medalist and three-time X Games medalist Jose Torres from Argentina. Also shooting for X Games glory, look out for multiple BMX Park World Champion Anthony Jeanjean from Béziers, France alongside two-time BMX Park gold medalist Daniel Sandoval from California. Don't miss it! Next up, the Women's Skateboard Street final will see 16-year-old Liz Akama from Miyagi, Japan, face the world elite of the sport. Despite her young age, Akama already owns six X Games medals, including bronze from X Games Chiba 2024, alongside silver from the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. But the tech skating master really wants her first X Games gold – will this be her moment? Speaking of X Games gold, the Men's Skateboard Vert event will showcase 25-year-old Tom Schaar from Malibu, California, looking for his second gold in the event – and he's hungry after claiming bronze at X Games Chiba 2024. His competition includes New York's Elliot Sloan with 16 X Games medals to his name (7 gold, 7 silver, 2 bronze) as well as Japanese style icon Moto Shibata from Osaka battling for his tenth X Games medal. A classic in the making! For another classic battle, tune into the BMX Park Best Trick event where defending gold medalist Daniel Sandoval is the rider to beat. Top contenders include Kevin Peraza after taking gold at X Games Ventura 2024 alongside the silver medalist from Chiba 2024, 28-year-old Jeremy Malott from Lake Havasu City, Arizona. Also never rule out previous BMX Dirt Best Trick winner Ryan Williams from Sunshine Coast, Australia, together with six-time X Games medalist Mike Varga from Canada, and California's Bryce Tryon looking for his second X Games medal in an epic progression session that will stoke the fans! The first day of X Games Osaka 2025 will end on a high note in the Moto X Best Trick final. Get ready for boundary-pushing moves courtesy of seventeen-time X Games medalist Jackson Strong from Lockhart, Australia, hungry for gold after taking silver at Chiba 2024. Also dropping into the session, Japanese Moto X legend Taka Higashino earned bronze at the previous X Games in Japan. Meanwhile, Julien Vanstippen from Ophain, Belgium, and Japan's Genki Watanabe want to lock in their career-first Best Trick medals. And will the youngest competitor on the roster, 24-year-old Australian Ben Richards, finally rise to the X Games podium? The final day of X Games in Osaka starts with the BMX Street event – and a stacked Monster Energy roster: After sweeping the podium in the discipline at X Games Ventura 2024, gold medal winner Kevin Peraza, silver medalist Jordan Godwin from Cardiff, Wales, and bronze medalist Lewis Mills from Terrey Hills, Australia, are back for more. German tech pioneer Felix Prangenberg comes in hungry after settling for fourth place at X Games Chiba 2024. He will duel with 2023 gold medalist Boyd Hilder from Australia. Anything can happen! Next on the agenda, X Games Osaka will throw it back to a classic event with BMX Flatland. Wildly popular in Japan, the discipline showcases BMX athletes performing tricks on a flat surface without obstacles or jumps. Monster Energy team rider Moto Sasaki from Chiba is an icon of the scene and previous bronze medal winner. Don't miss this masterclass in style and effortless flow! Speaking of mastery, prepare for the bar to be raised in the Men's Skateboard Vert Best Trick final. Dropping in with new tricks up his sleeve, three-time Best Trick gold medalist Elliot Sloan comes in hungry for the next medal after closely missing the podium at X Games Chiba 2024. Then again, Moto Shibata did land on the podium at Chiba 2024 by taking home silver and is back for more. And let's keep in mind that Tom Schaar from Malibu just dropped a next-level video part for Thrasher magazine and has the right tricks to earn precious metal. Don't miss it! Stay tuned for the Women's Skateboard Park final to see defending gold medalist Arisa Trew aiming for her second gold medal of the weekend. Her biggest rival? That's Olympic silver medalist and X Games champion Cocona Hiraki from Hokkaido, Japan. Keeping the progression going at X Games Osaka 2025, the Men's Skateboard Street final is gearing up for an unforgettable showdown: Brazilian powerhouse and Olympic silver medalist Kelvin Hoefler had to settle for fourth place at X Games Chiba 2024 – and wants back into the top three. He's up against two Japanese young guns: 18-year-old X Games silver medalist Daiki Ikeda from Tokyo and 18-year-old Toa Sasaki from Mie, Japan, who shook the system by winning the World Skate Games Italy 2024. For another wild card, look no further than 15-year-old Julian Agliardi from Long Beach, California, winner of the 2024 Mystik Sk8 Cup and ready for his first X Games podium! Ending the fourth edition of X Games in Japan with a banger, make sure to catch the Men's Skateboard Park contest. The action will unfold with Tom Schaar dropping in as the defending gold medalist from X Games Chiba 2024. Prepare for a head-to-head competition as last year's silver medalist, 21-year-old Kieran Woolley from Kiama Downs, Australia, brings his latest tricks to the park course in Osaka. Rounding out the Monster Energy squad, 24-year-old X Games gold medalist Trey Wood is ready to stoke the Japanese crowd in this grand finale. Don't miss the action at X Games Osaka 2025 when the Monster Energy team proceeds to Unleash the Beast! Download high-resolution photos here for editorial use. View full story here. Visit for exclusive updates from X Games Osaka 2025, including photos, videos, and contest results as they happen. Follow Monster Energy on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, X, and TikTok. For interview or photo requests, contact Kim Dresser. About Monster EnergyBased in Corona, California, Monster Energy is the leading marketer of energy drinks and alternative beverages. Refusing to acknowledge the traditional, Monster Energy supports the scene and sport. Whether motocross, off-road, NASCAR, MMA, BMX, surf, snowboard, ski, skateboard, or the rock and roll lifestyle, Monster Energy is a brand that believes in authenticity and the core of what its sports, athletes, and musicians represent. More than a drink, it's the way of life lived by athletes, bands, believers, and fans. See more about Monster Energy including all of its drinks at CONTACT: Kim Dresser C: (949) 300-5546 E: View Full StoryDownload Photos for Editorial Use View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Monster Energy Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
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5 days ago
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Monster Army Rider Egoitz Bijueska Takes First Place In Men's Skateboard Park at WST World Cup Rome 2025
14-Year-Old from Bilbao, Spain, Takes Victory in Contest Sanctioned by World Skate 15-Year-Old Monster Army Rider Arisa Trew from Palm Beach, Australia, Takes 2nd Place in Women's Skateboard Park Final 16-Year-Old Monster Energy Rider Cocona Hiraki Claims 3rd Place in Down-to-the-Wire Final ROME, June 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Monster Energy congratulates Monster Army team rider Egoitz Bijueska on taking first place in the Men's Skateboard Park discipline at the World Skateboarding Tour (WST) World Cup Rome 2025. In the international competition hosted by the World Skate Association, the 14-year-old from Bilbao, Spain, earned the victory in a highly contested final. In the Women's Skateboard Park event, 15-year-old Monster Army team rider Arisa Trew from Palm Beach, Australia, took second place. Also rising to the podium, 16-year-old Cocona Hiraki from Hokkaido, Japan, clinched a spot in the top three on her last run of the contest. From June 1-15, the WST World Cup Rome features the world's leading athletes in skateboarding competitions across street and park disciplines. Sanctioned by World Skate, the official governing body for skateboarding in the Olympics, the event featured men's and women's skateboard park competitions at the vertical bowl in Ostia, Lido di Roma, this weekend. The season's first skateboarding World Cup will also feature skateboard street competitions with finals on Sunday, June 15. The Men's Skateboard Park final culminated in a major surprise when 14-year-old Monster Army rider Egoitz Bijueska from Spain clinched the victory. Working the park with a perfect run including a backside 540 melon, backside Smith grind over the love seat, backside ollie transfer, alley-oop kickflip Indy, backside 540 stalefish, hip transfer to backside lipslide, blunt slide transfer over the channel, alley-oop body varial kickflip Indy over the hip, backside tailslide shove-it the corner, frontside varial flip Indy fakie, Cab 720 Weddle, and alley-oop backside air the hip, Bijueska earned the day's highest score of 94.50 points for first place. In the Women's Skateboard Park final on Sunday, Arisa Trew entered as a podium favorite after emerging from the weekend's semifinals in third place. The Australian skateboarding phenomenon put down her highest-scoring run on the second attempt: Combining a huge McTwist in the deep end, backside 540 melon, hip transfer to frontside lipslide, kickflip Indy, Weddle air transfer, backside 360 Indy to fakie, frontside Cab 360 stalefish, ollie blunt fakie, and switch McTwist on the final wall earned Trew 92.43 points and second place in the heated final. Trew was joined on the podium by Olympic silver medalist and X Games champion Cocona Hiraki. Hiraki qualified for Sunday's final as the top rider but found herself bumped into fourth place when the final runs of the contest rolled around. Putting everything on the line, Hiraki strung together a perfect run featuring backside nosegrind over the love seat, backside tailslide, backside kickflip the deep end, channel transfer backside lipslide, hip transfer frontside nosegrind to lipslide, lien to tailslide, kickflip Indy the channel, frontside Smith grind to feeble spine transfer, backside crail slide and Indy air over the teardrop for 91.62 points and third place. Stay tuned when WST World Cup Rome returns with street skateboarding finals this coming weekend from June 14-15 at Colle Oppio Skatepark overlooking the Colosseum. Visit for exclusive updates from the 2025 skateboarding season, including photos, videos, and contest results as they happen. Follow Monster Energy on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, X, and TikTok. For interview or photo requests, contact Kim Dresser. About Monster EnergyBased in Corona, California, Monster Energy is the leading marketer of energy drinks and alternative beverages. Refusing to acknowledge the traditional, Monster Energy supports the scene and sport. Whether motocross, off-road, NASCAR, MMA, BMX, surf, snowboard, ski, skateboard, or the rock and roll lifestyle, Monster Energy is a brand that believes in authenticity and the core of what its sports, athletes and musicians represent. More than a drink, it's the way of life lived by athletes, bands, believers, and fans. See more about Monster Energy including all of its drinks at CONTACT: Kim Dresser C: (949) 300-5546 E: View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Monster Energy
The Guardian
01-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
I quit skateboarding when I realised I'd never be good enough. A decade on, I found fun doesn't need an end goal
I'll never forget landing my first kickflip. I'm not sure how old I was, but old enough to firmly believe it would be the greatest moment of my life. I remember my first fractured elbow and the pride that came with such a milestone. I remember the weekends spent navigating public transport to far-flung skateparks. There were worries and stresses, I'm sure, but I don't really remember them. The soft hiss of the wheels and the sharp clack of the maple plywood would drown them out. I remember when everything changed. I had just turned 19 and an internal monologue urging me to grow up had harmonised with a swelling external chorus. I needed a plan to stick the landing into adulthood, and if I wanted skateboarding to be part of that plan, it needed an end goal. Suddenly, I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. This would be one way to justify the amount of time I spent skating. For the next two years, my life played out like a training montage from Rocky. Skateparks became my second home. At night or when it rained, I'd watch skate DVDs on loop. Nothing else mattered. Naturally, I wasn't invited to a lot of parties during this time but I wouldn't have gone anyway. After all, you can't skate hungover. There was just one issue: I wasn't good enough. So I stopped. The joy of skateboarding had been reduced to failure, of which my skateboard became a cruel reminder. Before long, it was relegated to storage, then lost altogether until more than a decade later, aged 34, I found it while tidying. The discovery lined up perfectly with the excitement around Olympic skateboarding and the gold medal performance of Australia's Arisa Trew beamed into every living room. After so many years, I couldn't remember the names of many of the tricks Trew landed – a 360 something-or-other, or a frontside thingamajig – but the cheers from onlookers stirred me. I remembered: that was fun. For many I rode with when I was younger, skateboarding may have been much more, but I realised for me it was play and I was eager to reclaim that. Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning The voice in my head was still saying if you're going to do something, you better be getting something back from it. Pleasure unearned consumes itself. Play is a luxury, one that should only be considered once progress has been achieved. Sure, I had become more practiced at ignoring this voice, but it makes some good points. The first one: you're going to make a fool of yourself. I knew that would most likely be the case, so it took a lot of work to get up the nerve to enter a skate store to replace my old and battered skateboard. Later when I talked to Jamie Knapp, owner of Sydney skate store World of Wheelcraft, he validated my trepidation: 'It can be pretty daunting.' He said adults made up the majority of his customers and gave me the advice he imparts to all mature-age boarders: 'Don't be afraid of sucking.' His words resonated. They gave me the permission I didn't need – but deep down wanted – to remove the ego and other self-imposed conditions-of-entry keeping me from skateboarding. I wasn't the only person in my orbit hearing the clarion call to rediscover fun in skateboarding. Sign up to Saved for Later Catch up on the fun stuff with Guardian Australia's culture and lifestyle rundown of pop culture, trends and tips after newsletter promotion My good friend Aimee Joy, a former team rider for the now defunct Australian skate institution UPS, has been skating for most of her life. Now in her 30s, Joy says she has a 'whole new appreciation' for skateboarding – even after three ankle surgeries and a calf reconstruction. 'It's more fun than it's ever been at any stage of my life. I'm just in the moment now, enjoying it.' I was emboldened by a newfound desire to be bad at something, but still planned my return to the skatepark in Sydney's Lilyfield like the Allies' landing at Normandy. I gamed it all out: here is where I'll arrive, here is where I can sit out of sight, and here is where I'll make a quick exit if things go bad. I needn't have worried. On the day I returned to the skatepark, there was a family with young kids, a group of teenagers and some older riders peppered throughout. All bore witness to how much I truly did suck. They responded with cheers of encouragement or, at worst, were too busy having their own fun to even notice. We all got advice, gave advice, held cameras and shared Allen keys. We unplugged from the world and enjoy the sun. We did just about everything but judge. From the first push, it didn't feel weird being back after all this time. The only weird thing was that it felt like no time had passed. I strapped on my helmet and began rolling around the skatepark. I was confident of accomplishing great things in my life, but I let out a sigh of relief that none of them would be here.
Yahoo
27-01-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
It's Trew: Arisa revels as skateboard role model
Arisa Trew, Australia's youngest Olympic gold medallist, reckons it's the secret to her success. "Just overcoming fear pretty easily," Trew told AAP. "And giving everything a try and putting in a lot of work." The 14-year-old Queenslander is a skateboarding trailblazer who has revolutionised the sport. At last year's Paris Olympics, she became the nation's youngest gold medallist with victory in the women's park event. "Definitely since the Olympics, life has changed," said Trew, who turns 15 in May. "I feel like more people kind of know me now and recognise me and want to take photos which is pretty cool, I don't mind that. "I hope I'd be a role model here in Australia because it's super cool to see a lot of younger girls getting in to it. "And even girls my age and older just taking up the sport and having fun with their friends and just challenging themselves to find new tricks." Trew's father Simon has noted the influence of his daughter. "What the girl is achieving is absolutely amazing," he told AAP. "Arisa turned the skateboarding world upside down when she first came on the scene because her level of skating was so much higher than everybody. "But all the young girls now just look at her skateboarding and see her as just being normal and that is what they have to do, so they're all following her really fast. "And the other girls on the tour are stepping up and following her as well so it's really exciting. "Everybody in the skateboarding world is so excited about what she is doing and what the other girls are doing." X Games Declares 2024 'The Year of Arisa Trew' and Highlights Her Many Achievements From landing a 900 to countless contest wins, the Olympics and more, Arisa Trew had a monumental year. — TransWorld SKATE (@TransWorldSKATE) January 1, 2025 Simon said the impact of his daughter went deeper than her feats, which include being a five-time X-Games gold medallist, world and Olympic champion, and the first female skater to land the 720 and 900 aerial tricks in competition. "Skate parks now are all full of girls," he said. "When she started, she was the only girl so it's kind of amazing that skate parks in Australia are so full of girls. "In the rest of the world, it's slowly changing but not like in Australia. "Australia's skateboarding scene is booming so we will probably be dominant in skateboarding definitely up to Brisbane (2032 Olympics) - maybe even longer because everybody is so hooked on it."
