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Nyjah Imani Huston (born November 30, 1994) is an American professional skateboarder and was the overall champion at the Street League Skateboarding (SLS) competition series in 2012, 2014 and 2015. As of May 19, 2013, Huston has won more prize money than any other skateboarder in history. In 2014, Huston ranked #5 on FoxWeekly’s ‘Top 15 Most Influential Skateboarders of All-Time’.
Huston was born in Davis, California, United States (U.S.). He was raised in San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico. Huston started skating when he was approximately four years of age and is “goofy”-footed (right foot is placed at the nose of the board).
Nyjah is the most consistent and dominant contest street skater of the past several years. The California native owns four of the last six XG Skateboard Street gold medals (including all three 2013 XG stops he attended) and two of the four Street League championship rings.
After Huston’s gold medal victory at the 2013 X Games Street League contest in Barcelona, Spain in mid-May, Transworld SKATEboarding magazine announced that no other skateboarder has won a greater amount of prize money. On the final night of May 2013, the DC Shoes Co. held a launch event for the first signature model skate shoe of Huston’s career at the Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California, U.S., with Pete Rock in the role of DJ. The model is named the “Nyjah Huston Signature Shoe” and the promotional advertisement features Huston executing a trick at set of stairs at Hollywood High School in Los Angeles, U.S.
Huston revealed in a 2006 interview that he had been raised by his father as a strict vegan from birth up until the time of the interview. In a 2012 interview, Huston stated that he had tried meat and dairy for the first time. As part of his strict Rastafarian upbringing, Huston was only permitted to listen to reggae music and was unable to cut his dreadlocks.
Together with his mother Kelle Huston, Huston founded the charity organization “Let It Flow” in 2008 with the aim of providing clean, safe, and accessible water to communities in need. Following their personal experiences in Puerto Rico, the pair started by selling reusable water bottles at a local farmers market and, as of December 2012, the organization build clean-water wells, fixes wells that are inoperable, and builds sanitation stations for people in urgent need of clean water. Let It Flow built its first sanitation station in Ethiopia