NYJAH HUSTON IS A FUN FOLLOW ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
There he is, rolling up to Coachella with a crew of stylish women. Then he’s DJing with Diplo at a house party — HIS house party, and in gorgeous Laguna Beach. One minute he’s in Vegas, the next he’s doing donuts in his newly modded-out BMW M8 or riding a dirt bike over rugged trails.
Yeah, Huston is leaning into his rockstar status. Why shouldn’t he? The most decorated street skater in competition history — by far — has earned it. You know what else he’s doing? Still stacking serious street clips and winning major contests. And the 13-time X Games gold medalist will be a favorite once again at X Games Ventura 2024, just as he has been for *checks notes* fifteen years.
“Life is good! I’ve never been afraid to post about that stuff,” Nyjah says. “That’s just not how skaters are. We’re not afraid to show who we are as people, and I think that’s important.”
Huston, now 29, has spent virtually his whole life in the action sports spotlight. He was just 11 years old when he debuted at X Games in 2006. At the time, he was the youngest athlete in X Games history, a mark he held until Jagger Eaton arrived in 2012 (multiple younger skaters have competed in recent years). So while Huston’s search has been more public, he’s like a lot of us — he wants the right work-life ratio. Or, as he recently shared on Instagram, “a solid balance between wholesome and hectic.”
“My life has been constantly about that balance ever since I started becoming my own self throughout my younger teenage years, around 15 or 16,” he explains. “That’s when I finally had some freedom to really start living and enjoying my life.”
It’s not all about the good times, either. Huston also opened up about recovering from his first major injury, a torn ACL (among other tears) suffered in late summer 2022. A true core street skater, Nyjah sees the injury as a consequence of regularly “donating blood to the streets” and striving for the next never-been-done trick.
Photo credit: Trevor Brown Jr. / X Games
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