Dakota Schuetz

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Dakota Schuetz
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Full nameDakota Schuetz
Nickname(s)Kota
Nationality American
Born (1996-03-19) 19 March 1996 (age 27)
California, United States

Dakota Schuetz, (born 19 March 1996) also known as Kota, is an American professional freestyle scooter rider. [1] He is the three time world champion in the ISA Scooter Competition (2012, 2013, 2014). [2] In addition to winning several contests, he is one of just two people to have completed all 40 tricks in Tricknology, a website with a list of challenging tricks. [3] [4] [5] Only one trick took him more than one try. [6] [7] [8] He is also the second person to land a documented 1080 on a scooter. The first being Tyler Bonner in 2010 [9]

In 2016 Dakota Schuetz held the most wins for freestyle scooter ISA World Championship and was published in the Guinness Book of World Records. [10]

In addition to being world champion he also won the FISE World Series Chengdu in 2018. [11]

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References

  1. "Dakota "Kota" Schuetz - New Footage". Lucky Scooters. 15 October 2013. Archived from the original on 19 October 2017. Retrieved 19 October 2017. The world champ, Dakota Schuetz recently came out with some new footage that was pretty unreal, at least in my eyes. I didn't think it was possible to roll away from some of the tricks that "Kota" lands in this latest video.
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