Street League Skateboarding

Street League Skateboarding is a professional skateboarding competition league founded by Rob Dyrdek. Its events use stadium courses and a standardized judging format.

SLS judging format: A scoring system used in Street League Skateboarding competitions to evaluate skateboarders’ attempts. The league’s standardized scoring makes tricks and runs comparable within each event.
Rob Dyrdek: An American professional skateboarder, entrepreneur, and television personality. Dyrdek founded Street League Skateboarding and helped shape its competition model.
Olympic skateboarding: The skateboarding events contested at the Olympic Games, introduced at Tokyo 2020. SLS athletes and competition experience intersect with the sport’s Olympic pathway.
Street skating: Informal skateboarding in public spaces, using existing urban features as obstacles. SLS formalizes street-style tricks in a controlled venue rather than public streets.
Skateboarding course: A built environment of ramps, rails, ledges, and other obstacles for skateboarders. SLS courses arrange street obstacles into a stadium-ready competition layout.
Skateboarding in the 2010s: A decade in which skateboarding expanded its global professional and institutional presence. SLS grew as skateboarding competitions gained larger audiences and formal structures.
Street skateboarding at the Summer Olympics: The Olympic skateboarding discipline judged on a course of street-style obstacles. Its obstacle-based format resembles SLS while following Olympic rules.
Vert skateboarding: A skateboarding discipline performed on a large, curved ramp with vertical sections. Vert competition centers on ramp runs, unlike SLS’s street-obstacle courses.
Best trick contest: A skateboarding contest format in which athletes attempt individual tricks for scores. Individual trick attempts are a central scoring component of SLS events.
Thrill One Media: An action-sports media and events company that owns and operates several properties. Street League Skateboarding became part of Thrill One Media’s portfolio.

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Nyjah HustonRelated: Huston became its dominant competitor, winning multiple season championships.