Softback.
180 pages.
Text in both English and Japanese.
Bueno! Books 2015. ISBN 978-4-907354-15-2
Almost as soon as skateboarding touched ground in Japan in the late '70s Higai was there with a camera. By the mid-80s he was regularly photographing visiting American pros and by 1986 he was flying to the US to shoot phots of the world's finest skateboarders on their home turf.
Judo Air compiles photographs taken from 1983 to 1998, featuring classic & unknown photos of Mark Gonzales, Christian Hosoi, Rodney Mullen, Natas Kaupas, Tony Hawk, Lance Mountain and many many more.