As corny as it may sound, these dudes are in it because they love skateboarding plain and simple and they want to be involved in promoting and furthering the local scene.
It's always sad when a local skate shop goes out of business, especially when it's 100 percent skater owned and operated and also the most genuinely rad skateboard retailer in town.
This recently happened to a place I hold dear to my heart in Osaka, Japan called Fuzenna, which had been the go-to place in Osaka for the truly hardcore for years.
There are a lot of places to buy skateboard gear in Osaka, most of them are big money chains like Murasaki Sports or Spotaka, and they actually have some cool shit there, but they aren't 100 percent skateboards and they aren't 100 percent skater owned and operated.
The homie K.D.-san is a friend to all in the Osaka scene and his shop will be sorely missed, and I want to say good luck to him in whatever he decides to pursue in the future, it was a pleasure to have been a customer and friend of Fuzenna for the past five years.
The window outside the old shop location right around the block from Sankaku-koen, a.k.a. Triangle Park, home turf of the Osaka Daggers.
K.D.-san holding it down at the old shop.
Wall of fame at the old shop was deep with Royal Hawaiian Pool Service ohana, check out Grant, Gary, Wataru, and Kenzi shralping.
Last year K.D.-san moved Fuzenna a little ways up north, about a 20 minute train ride from the old spot and opened up a new shop with some killer amenities.
First of all, micro mini-ramp. This later was expanded into some crazy obstacle set up to complement the ramp.
Also, this green monster was downstairs directly under the shop and the mini.
Oh yeah, K.D. built this shit all by himself, YABAI!
People came from all over to shred and BBQ frequently.
K.D. manned and ran the shop on the solo tip, not an easy thing to do but he ran the tightest ship in town.
Aloha, K.D.-san! Let's shred again real soon.
Wednesdays have become every day.
R.I.P. FUZENNA
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