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Nyjah Huston Wins $150,000 at Street League Stop #1
Posted by bk - August 28th, 2010 7:25 pm
The last and youngest professional to sign paper with the exclusive Street League took home $150.000 for his consistently skilled efforts this afternoon in Glendale, Arizona. We can only assume that there are tears of joy streaming down his face this time around as the young and virtually sponsorless kid from Davis, CA gears up for the next Street League sanctioned event in Southern California two weeks from now. Congrats Nyjah.
Final Results
1. Nyjah Huston 116 points 82% consistency $150,000
2. Shane O’Neill 114.9 points 79% consistency $80,000
3. Torey Pudwill 112.8 points 82% consistency $25,000
4. Sean Malto 111 points 86% consistency $10,000
5. Chris Cole 109.6 points 79% consistency $7,500
6. Chaz Ortiz 102.2 points 79% consistency $6,000
7. Paul Rodriguez 100.1 points 71% consistency $5,500
If you’re not already out doing some skating of your own, look for the televised broadcast of this event on September 15th on ESPN2 at 8pm EST/5pm PST.
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yeah right your 7 year old is as gifed as nyjah and didnt get 2nd EVERY SINGLE TIME.
he cried cus we all knew he won it shows in the video you stupid ass.
watch the video and see for yourself but im pretty sure you dont a thing about skating so shut up.
Nyjah has been getting robbed at contests for years. The kid kills it every time, just watch any video. Looks like the street leagues judging system works. Because its not driven by some bullshit behind the scene politics, rather straight up scoring in real time.
Shawn, I have skated more places for more years than you’ll ever get to–so do yourself a favor and stfu
Who cares about Rob D./ESPN’s jock version of skateboarding?
The Street League is probably the worst thing for skateboarding since K-Swiss or Z-Roller trucks.
This whole thing has two huge down sides, first who wants to watch a contest they already know the results? At least do a media black out or something. Second the results on street leagues webpage are different and say that Cole won… How does that happen?
@tommy b take another look at the scoring. cole had more points in the prelims and the “bonus” but nyja took it in the finals. nuff said.
i do not like the fact that we cant see this live, streaming, whatever. the fuel.tv online coverage of maloof was way better than the BS recap they did on fox yesterday. i dont dobt the street league tv coverage will be good.. it is rob d the production value will be good, but why not let us watch live? not cool
nyjah nyjah nyjah. First, can we kill the Maloof BS already with this kid. I watched the contest streaming live and had friends at the contest who think the same thing – Nyjah did not skate the course the way it was supposed to be skated – he focused on one particular obstacle in each section and tried to destroy them for points thinking it would be enough. Cole skated all the obstacles and layed down twice as many if not three times as many tricks during the course of the event and displayed creativity while doing it – THAT is why Cole won Maloof. IMO Nyjah may be very talented but, he is a poor sport and seems to display a sense of “entitlement” in his general demeanor. I still have yet to see a real genuine smile out of that kid on any podium – skateboarding owes him nothing and as far as what a pro should be/represent that kid has a loooooong way to go.
That’s a allot of money for skateboarding. Hope he buys health insurance.
Who cares about street league? Where’s the chili bowl results?!?!?
First of all, Congrats to Nyjah it looks like the 2nd place curse has been broken and by non other than the same judges that just placed you 2nd at the Maloof Money Cup. I watched you skate the MMC in Orange County and you killed it, well the last 2 sections anyway. If you would have been more consistent on the 1st section you would be up $250,000 but Chris Cole skated lights out from start to finish. but take nothing away from your victory so Congrats.
Hey Street League-I have to wait 2 weeks to watch? I’ll be over it by then and not want to waste my time on the couch when I could be out skating. Just saying.
Hey Wally, think it’s a safe bet most are over you and your lack of subtlety as well.
danny way cried behind a quarter pipe at savannah slamma 3 when he was 15. he got over it and the rest is history.
Skating is weird.
Its crazy to see now that skaters are taking home $150,000 for contest wins! Sk8ing has come a loooong way!
all thats bullshit. just skate and have fun man .
It seems like they are doing a good job of keeping most of the footage unseen. The only footage I could find was a montage of Malto and an Andrew Cannon segment on espn. Maybe security was confiscating video cameras but you’d think some kid would have filmed it and loaded the footage on youtube. It looked like there wasn’t many people either and it seemed like there wasn’t much energy in the building. Did anybody else notice that?
Congrats to Nyjah!
Street League is like watching gymnastics. The whole scoring system sounds interesting and has some benefits but the structure of the event SUCKS. There is absolutely no flow and makes skateboarding a total jock sport.
Let the jocks watch contests and the real skaters hit the streets
wow . . . looks conspiracy brewing. Seriously . . . while both Maloof and Street League are trying to be “legit” skate contests by throwing money around, we’re just going back to the 80’s when contest skating was king.
Ask yourself . . . what would Leo Romero do? Get a skateboard, get out in the streets and terrorize and don’t worry about the politics or some Monster Energy-funded scoring system