World Championships of Freestyle Results

We are back from an awesome trip to Japan!

So many things happened and many new friends we met during our week stay in Tokyo!
It was the best contest that I had ever seen in Freestyle since the new movement began in 2000!
The organization and scheduling was fantastic and the setting could not have been more perfect right in the middle of one of the most popular and busy malls in Tokyo so we had huge crowds (10,000+ throughout the weekend) every event on 3 sides on the bottom floor and 4 sides (escalators behind the judges area) upstairs. When you got out onto the floor everyone was cheering after the announcement and when you landed a trick everyone went crazy it was like how it is supposed to be like those huge contests back in the 80`s.
The Japanese skaters where not only amazing skaters but really friendly and kind, most of them already knew who all of us where and after the first day of skating all of the foreign skaters had a bunch of new friends and fans they embraced us like we where family. Many thanks to Murasaki Sports for being the headline sponsor along with the many other sponsors of the event, it will be an event I will always remember and I can`t wait to come back here (Japan).

Domo Harigato Nipon

AJ Kohn

BTW: I think I am the first to break an 8" deck during a Freestyle contest!

Japan World Championship Results
Full Finals Placing List:
Pro:
1 Guenter Mokulys (Germany)
2 Shigekazu Moichi Suzuki (Japan)
3 Rene Shigueto Marubayashi (Brazil)
4 Masahiro Fujii (Japan)
5 Stefan Lillis Akesson (Sweden)
6 Per Canguru (Brazil)
7 Kevin Harris (Canada)
8 Masanori Yoshida (Japan)
9 Toshiaki Fujii (Japan)
10 Yuta Kikuchi (Japan)
11 AJ 　Kohn (USA)
12 Satoshi Ohashi (Japan)
13 Kenta Omori (Japan)

Am: All Japan
1 Greyson Asthon (USA)
2 Suzuki Lyrics Guizhou
3 Suzuki Daiki
4 HINO Akio
5 Kobayashi Yu
6 Koyano Friends
7 Nakano Seiya
8 Nishino Yasuhiro
9 Jun Sasaki
10 Kudo Science

Girls: All Japan
1 Murayama Yukiko
2 Iino Sayaka
3 Rock Hatsukaiti Yoko
4 Sada Nobu Prince Yu
5 Shannon Sexton (USA)
6 Matsui Risa

World Freestyle Championships Tokyo

Shannon and I will be representing One Skateboards at this event.
The competition field is intense as 20 Top Pro, 25 Top Ams and 6 Top Girl Freestyle Skateboarders from around the world will be competing at this event in the center of Tokyo for two days and about $5,000 USD in cash / prizes and World Champion of Freestyle title.
Wish us luck in Japan!

Felonz Board Shop Indiana Blog post

This is a new skate shop customer of One Skateboard Co. and this is what they wrote about us on their blog:
http://www.felonzskateshop.blogspot.com/

Needless to say we are psyched and glad that they are really getting behind what we have been doing and supporting the cause. Also this is a great way to promote new products coming into your store for our brand or anyone's for that matter! It is good to see core skate shops really getting behind what we do! Thanks for the support guys!

Panebianco getting work done!

Our own Brian "Penny" Panebianco has been getting work done lately!
Ever since his AD in FTK magazine the man has been on fire turning in almost 2 min of footage, half a dozen photos, calling me to see what is up coming and even got a couple of clips on the new Team Pain commercial!

Check him out! Guess which tricks he got!