Best Scooter Riders of All Time: Freestyle & Pro Icons

The greatest freestyle scooter riders of all time are defined by world titles, trick innovation, and the influence they had on turning a playground toy into a recognized action sport. Jordan Clark, a five-time World Champion, and Dakota Schuetz, who won three straight ISA world titles, headline the all-time list, while Ryan Williams reshaped what tricks were possible. As of July 2026, Britain’s Jayden Sharman is the reigning world champion.

What makes a “greatest” scooter rider

Ranking athletes in any action sport means weighing more than a single contest win. The riders on this list are judged across four factors:

• Contest record – titles at the World Skate / ISA Scootering World Championships, European Championships, FISE, and Nitro World Games
• Trick innovation – introducing or popularizing moves that changed what judges and riders expected
• Longevity – sustained performance at the top level across multiple seasons
• Cultural impact – influence on the community, media reach, and the development of younger riders

One thing to get straight before the rankings: X Games has no scooter discipline, so any list that credits riders with X Games scooter medals is wrong. Scooter’s big-air showcase is Nitro World Games. Freestyle scooter is also still young as an organized sport, so the same names appear across both the record books and the platforms that made scootering mainstream.

All-time greatest freestyle scooter riders

Rider	Nationality	Known for	Major honors
Jordan Clark	Great Britain	Park mastery, consistency, longevity	5× World Champion (5th in 2021), 3× European Champion, 6× Extreme Barcelona
Dakota Schuetz	USA	Park dominance, big tricks	3× ISA World Champion (2012–2014), Guinness record holder
Ryan Williams	Australia	Scooter/BMX crossover, world-first tricks	12+ world-first tricks; Nitro World Games Scooter Best Trick 2017, 2018
Raymond Warner	USA	Early competition, huge media reach	US champion; 1.2M+ YouTube subscribers; tailwhip records
Dante Hutchinson	Great Britain	Technical precision	ISA World Champion 2017; 4× UK champion; FISE World silver 2022
Jayden Sharman	Great Britain	Current world number one	World Champion 2024 and 2025; first 900 flair in competition

Jordan Clark

Jordan Clark is the most decorated rider in freestyle scooter world-championship history. The British athlete, who started riding at 13, won five World Championship titles — the fifth in 2021 — along with three European Championships and six Extreme Barcelona crowns. He proved unusually durable, taking silver at the 2025 World Championships in Sakai, Japan, more than a decade after his first major wins. In February 2026 he announced he was stepping away from professional scootering to chase a full-time BMX career, closing the sport’s longest run of elite consistency.

Dakota Schuetz

Dakota Schuetz, known to riders as “Kota,” was the sport’s first breakout superstar. Guinness World Records credits him with the most ISA freestyle scooter World Championship wins — three, in 2012, 2013 and 2014, every edition of the event to that point. The 2014 win was the tightest: 87 points to Dylan Morrison’s 86.7. His skateboarding-influenced approach to park and bowl riding pushed the difficulty ceiling higher and helped put pro scooter in front of action-sports audiences who had never watched it before.

Ryan Williams

Ryan Williams, known as “R-Willy,” is one of the rare athletes to compete professionally in both freestyle scooter and BMX. The Australian, born on the Sunshine Coast in June 1994, is credited with more than twelve world-first tricks, including the Scooter Loop (2012), the Free Willy (2014), the cash roll, the “silly willy” double front flip 360, and a 360 triple backflip on scooter in 2024. He won Nitro World Games Scooter Best Trick in 2017 and 2018 — in 2017 he became the first athlete to win two events at a single Nitro World Games, taking BMX Best Trick as well. His X Games gold medals, five of them, all came in BMX.

Raymond Warner

Raymond Warner, who grew up in Murrieta, California, is one of freestyle scootering’s most influential figures. An early competitive standout and US champion, he set marks for tricks such as the most tailwhips and backflip tailwhips on a scooter. Warner’s biggest legacy, though, is off the contest floor: his YouTube channel, with more than 1.2 million subscribers, arguably did more than any single result to grow scootering’s audience and legitimize it as a discipline rather than a BMX sideshow.

The current era: 2024–2026

The modern sport is led by Britain’s Jayden Sharman. He made history at the 2024 Scootering Park World Championships in Ostia, Rome, by landing the first 900 flair in competition, then successfully defended his men’s park title at the 2025 World Skate Scootering World Championships in Sakai, Japan. World Skate described his two finals runs there as the highest-scoring of the night. Jordan Clark took silver at that 2025 event, with France’s Timon Pharabod claiming his first world podium in third.

The talent pool is also broadening. Riders under 20 are competing at elite levels, and athletes from Europe, Japan, and South America are closing the gap on the traditional British, American, and Australian dominance. With World Skate providing formal rankings and a global calendar, the record books here are still very much being written.

The bottom line

Jordan Clark’s five world titles make him the most decorated freestyle scooter rider in the sport’s championship history, while Dakota Schuetz’s three ISA championships and Ryan Williams’s catalog of world-first tricks anchor its early story. Raymond Warner’s reach turned scootering mainstream. As of July 2026, with Clark gone to BMX, Jayden Sharman is the rider to beat, carrying a two-year world-title streak into the sport’s next chapter.