SLS Tempe results: 3 Japanese women sweep the podium — is street shifting for good?

Saturday, August 29, 2026, Tempe, Arizona’s Mullett Arena hosted the fourth stop of the SLS Championship Tour. On the women’s side, all three podium spots went to Japan. On the men’s side, Brazil’s Filipe Mota came up 0.3 points short of topping American Braden Hoban. Two finals, two stories — and a question that’s been hanging around since Tokyo.

Women’s podium: 3 Japanese riders, nothing left for anyone else

Yumeka Oda closed out her final with a kickflip back 50 — a kickflip rolled straight into a grind on both trucks along the obstacle. That’s the trick that locked up the title. Second SLS win for her, and her first at a Takeover.

Behind her, Miyu Ito took second and Coco Yoshizawa third. Yoshizawa is the Paris 2024 Olympic gold medalist. Reigning Olympic champ, third in Tempe: that alone tells you what it took to hang that night.

• 1. Yumeka OdaWinner

  Japan — 2nd SLS win, 1st Takeover. Title sealed with a kickflip back 50.

• 2. Miyu Ito2nd

  Japan — runner-up, in striking distance of the win right up to the last attempt.

• 3. Coco YoshizawaOlympic champion

  Japan — gold in Paris 2024, third here. The podium stays 100% Japanese.

Men’s podium: 0.3 points between Hoban and Mota

On the men’s side, Braden Hoban took the win. The American landed the trick of the night, scored a 9.5: a kickflip back noseblunt. Filipe Mota finished 0.3 points back in second. Kairi Netsuke rounded out the podium.

Three tenths of a point. Over a whole night of runs and best tricks, that’s one judge hesitating between two scores. Mota didn’t blow anything: he just ran into a guy who pulled THE trick at exactly the right moment.

• 1. Braden HobanWinner

  USA — 9.5 for his kickflip back noseblunt, top score of the night.

• 2. Filipe Mota0.3 points back

  Brazil — beaten by three tenths. Tightest margin of the night.

• 3. Kairi Netsuke3rd

  Japan — the only Japanese rider on the men’s podium that night.

The 9.5 that decided the night

A kickflip back noseblunt is two moves stacked on top of each other. First the board flips over under your feet. Then you lock into a stall balanced on the nose, on the edge of the obstacle, with the tail hanging over nothing. Everybody knows what it’s like to miss the catch on a kickflip. Catching it dead-on into a noseblunt backside — back to the obstacle, so you can’t see the edge when you set down — that’s a whole different job.

9.5 sits way up the SLS scale. You don’t get there with a clean trick: you get there when the building stands up. It stood up.

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The official SLS Tempe Takeover broadcast, on the league’s channel. That’s where you’ll find both finals in full, best tricks included.

What was actually on the line in Tempe

A Takeover isn’t just one more box to tick on the schedule. It’s the format where the league drops its crates inside an arena and the spots for the rest of the Championship Tour get settled by tenths of a point. For Mota, those 0.3 points aren’t a bookkeeping detail: that’s the difference between walking out with a title on your résumé and walking out with a regret. For Oda, it’s a second SLS trophy — proof her first win wasn’t a fluke. And for everyone else, it was a night where you had to make yourself count against a Japanese contingent that grabbed four of the six podium spots.

Inside the Mullett Arena

Late August in Arizona, the heat doesn’t let go, even after the sun’s down. Inside, it’s Arizona State’s hockey rink, flipped for the night: stands rising straight up, AC cranked, and the sound of wheels on plywood bouncing off the whole building. You hear every miss — the sharp crack of the board taking off on its own, then two seconds of silence. Every make sets off a rumble coming at you from all sides at once. That’s the part the broadcast never fully gets across.

So is street shifting for good?

Here’s the answer, and it fits in one line: on the women’s side, it’s already done; on the men’s side, no — not yet.

Put the two Tempe podiums side by side and they tell you about two different worlds. Women: three Japanese riders, with the reigning Olympic champion pushed down to third. That’s not a performance anymore, that’s bench depth — when a country’s third best is an Olympic gold medalist, the country won before the final even started.

Men, the math looks nothing alike: one Japanese rider out of three spots, and an American on the top step. Brazil’s right there too, three tenths back. Anybody who called a full takeover after Yuto Horigome’s Olympic golds got ahead of themselves. On the men’s side, the tour is still a three-nation brawl.

So the shift is real, but it’s lopsided. And it happened first exactly where the fewest people were looking.

And if you slept through it

We gave you a heads-up on the time difference before the event in our guide to the SLS Tempe schedule in French time: the men’s final landed in the middle of the night. Verdict for anyone who slept: the women’s final was worth setting an alarm for, and the men’s came down to three tenths. Both are up on replay on the official channel, and 0.3 points holds up just fine at 8 a.m. with a coffee.

Full scoresheets, run by run, are posted by the league on the official Tempe Takeover page. Next Championship Tour stop covered right here, as always.

0.3 points in the men’s: fair call, or straight robbery for Mota? Say it in the comments ↓

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