Funa Nakayama

Funa Nakayama

June 17, 2005 (Age 20)

Japan

Regular

Funa Nakayama has become a standard-bearer of Japan’s staggering ascent in competitive skateboarding. She possesses the finest frontside crooked grind in women’s skateboarding and can Back Lip anything. Consistent and methodical, she needed to mesh the higher reaches of her technical repertoire with the power which she serves up her staple moves in order to break into the medal rankings in Tokyo, and came through with a markedly improved performance on a comparatively patchy outing in Rome earlier that summer of 2022. Encouraged into skateboarding by a father who used to skate himself, it may come as no surprise that her favourite skateboarder is fellow front crook pioneer Jamie Foy. Although she has made 4 finals of 5 on the WST, she has struggled to podium since 2022.