{"id":378077,"date":"2026-06-28T08:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T08:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/378077\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T08:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T08:26:15","slug":"nyjah-huston-so-stoked-for-first-x-games-sacramento-podium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/378077\/","title":{"rendered":"Nyjah Huston \u2018so stoked\u2019 for first X Games Sacramento podium"},"content":{"rendered":"

Davis native skateboarder Nyjah Huston was in a hospital bed just a month and a half ago. Weeks later, he\u2019s taken home hardware at his home competition.<\/p>\n

The summer MoonPay X Games League continued Saturday at Saturday\u2019s Cal Expo, featuring the men\u2019s street skateboarding finals, a marquee event for capital region fans. Huston, a 10-time Summer X Games street gold medalist, competed Saturday as part of the inaugural X Games League format, representing Team New York.<\/p>\n

In the last year, Huston has broken his eye socket \u2014 twice \u2014 and his jaw, as well as lacerating his kidney, per posts on his social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not easy to keep up with all the young guys out there, it\u2019s not easy to keep the body healthy,\u201d said Huston, age 31. \u201cIt\u2019s tough stuff, man, so I\u2019m thankful to be feeling good on the board still.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Nyjah Nyjah Huston celebrates after competing in the Monster Energy Men’s Skateboard Street at the MoonPay X Games in Sacramento on Saturday. HG BIGGS hg.biggs@sacbee.com Staying close to home<\/p>\n

The Sacramento X Games was the first time the Davis native competed near his hometown, he said. Prior to Saturday, he\u2019d never competed closer to the Sacramento region than San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Huston said he was last in the capital region about six months ago to spend time with family. He explored his old stomping grounds, including the Davis Skate Park, which has since been demolished for renovation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s crazy how bad that skate park was \u2014it\u2019s funny that that\u2019s actually where I learned how to skate because it really was one of the worst skate parks,\u201d Huston said.<\/p>\n

Despite that, Huston said he has fond memories of visiting Sacramento for skateboarding events when he was as young as 4 years old, and he still reps Northern California as his home.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been living around Orange County and LA for a long time now, but I\u2019m always proud to tell people (who) think I\u2019m from down there, I\u2019m from a very different place, I\u2019m from small town Davis vibes,\u201d Huston said. \u201cI\u2019m stoked to be back here in NorCal, proud to be from NorCal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Nyjah Nyjah Huston competes in the Monster Energy Men’s Skateboard Street at the MoonPay X Games in Sacramento on Saturday. HG BIGGS hg.biggs@sacbee.com <\/p>\n

During his competition, Huston\u2019s first run went rough, with two falls off his board, but he brought it back with a clean second run.<\/p>\n

\u201cNorCal, let\u2019s go!\u201d he yelled to the crowd after landing his final trick of the ride.<\/p>\n

Huston\u2019s X Games New York teammate Ginwoo Onodera pulled out a strong third skate, scoring 92.33 points and taking over Huston\u2019s leading spot, with the latter skater\u2019s next run determining the podium order.<\/p>\n

A smooth start to his third ride appeared to leave Huston poised to earn gold in his home Games, but a fall on his final trick left the hometown hero in second place, with a top score of 89.66 points.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is, like, better than the result I was looking for,\u201d Huston said after the contest. \u201cI was stoked to even just land, like, a simple run, and I\u2019m stoked that I landed my second run … so to come out with second, I\u2019m so stoked.\u201d<\/p>\n

Catching big air in the capital<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s events marked the second of three days in the capital city\u2019s inaugural X Games, after a strong opening Friday with three competitions in BMX, motocross and skateboarding<\/a>.<\/p>\n

James Shidler and Krishna Sabado, of Lathrop, have watched skateboarding and BMX competitions like the X Games and Street League Skateboarding for years, and when they saw the competition would be coming just an hour away from home, they knew they had to see the action.<\/p>\n

The pair got to the viewing area for the men\u2019s street skateboard final with plenty of time to spare, snagging a prime spot to watch legends like Huston and Onodera.<\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up watching (Huston),\u201d Shidler said. \u201cI can\u2019t wait to see him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd hopefully the (women),\u201d Sabado added.<\/p>\n

Olympic gold medalist Arisa Trew secured her second winning result of the weekend with a switch McTwist \u2014 a 540-degree twist taking off from her opposite side while grabbing the middle of the board \u2014 during women\u2019s vert best trick, which featured a field of athletes averaging only 16 1\/2 years old. Trew is 16.<\/p>\n

\"Arisa Arisa Trew competes in the MoonPay Women’s Skateboard Vert Best Trick at the MoonPay X Games in Sacramento on Saturday. HG BIGGS hg.biggs@sacbee.com <\/p>\n

In the Dave Mirra Men\u2019s BMX Park Best Trick competition, competitor Ryan Williams, from Australia, won with a first-of-its-kind front flip 540 trick off the edge of the Tower Bridge-painted pipe.<\/p>\n

Patrick Evans made it to the top step of the Motocross Best Trick event with his electric bike, whipping out a no-handed front flip to loud cheers from the crowd before climbing back up the ramp to celebrate.<\/p>\n

The first-ever Sacramento X Games wraps up Sunday, with final competitions in skateboard street and vert, and BMX street, park and dirt. More than just a sporting event, live music capped the action on the first two nights, with Kaskade headlining Friday and DJs Mustard and Subtronics set to perform Saturday.<\/p>\n

Concluding the games Sunday will be the men\u2019s street skateboarding best trick, in which Huston will once again compete.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis X Games means more to me than any other X Games I\u2019ve ever skated, because I feel like NorCal hasn\u2019t really gotten enough love for contests and events like this,\u201d Huston said.<\/p>\n

\"Gui Gui Khury bites his gold medal after placing first in the MoonPay Men’s Skateboard Vert Best Trick event at the MoonPay X Games in Sacramento on June 27, 2026. HG BIGGS hg.biggs@sacbee.com
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Camila Pedrosa is the California Diversions Reporter at The Sacramento Bee. She previously worked on The Bee\u2019s service journalism team and was a summer reporting intern for The Bee in 2024. She graduated from Arizona State University with a master\u2019s degree in mass communication.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Davis native skateboarder Nyjah Huston was in a hospital bed just a month and a half ago. Weeks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-378077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}