Liz Akama

Liz Akama

January 8, 2009 (Age 17)

Japan

Regular

What sets Rizu ‘Liz’ Akama apart from her Japanese squadmates are a couple of beautiful tricks that are not often seen at contests: Barley grinds and the treacherous but ever-so-pleasing frontside bigspin, which is harder to do in the era of round tails than it was in that of square ones. Also, watch out for her Frontside Feeblegrind to Frontside 180 Out, which won her WST Rome. While not the biggest name in the Japanese national team yet, her victory in Rome is changing that. She was sponsored by Meow Skateboards but is now being flowed by Flip Skateboards. She did not enter WST Lausanne.