Elijah Ishii

**Elijah Ishii** is a Canadian born Japanese monster truck driver who began his career in early 2002 driving Virginia Giant. He's well known for driving Mopar Magic from 2007 to 2010. Today, he currently drives Red Demon.

## Elijah Ishii

### Trucks Driven

* Virginia Giant (2002-2006)
* PBS Kids (Monster Jam Canada Tour 2004)
* Mopar Magic (Sims) [2007-2010]
* Jetix (Ishii) [Europe 2008]
* Blue Thunder (2011)
* Outlaw (2011-2012)
* Iron Man (2013-2014)
* Bigfoot 19 (2014-2017)
* The Rake (2015)
* Mean Streak (2017-2022)
* Red Demon (2022-present)

## History

* 1982 - Elijah Ishii is born in Calgary, Alberta.
* 2000 - Elijah trains at a private school owned by Tom Meents.
* 2002 - Elijah makes his driving debut driving Virginia Giant.
* 2003 - Elijah nearly dies in a incident where the truck catches on fire.
* 2004 - Elijah drives PBS Kids on Virginia Giant for the Japan Monster Jam tour.
* 2005 - Elijah gets into a unusual incident where he rolled over 4 times into the ocean at Monsters on the Beach 2005.
* 2006 - Elijah drives Virginia Giant for his final year. By December 2006 he is announced as a new driver for Steve Sims's Mopar Magic
* 2007 - Elijah debuts Mopar Magic in Detroit, Michigan. He signs autographs as a driver for Advance Auto Parts Metal Monster.
* 2008 - Elijah wins a Monster Jam Award for Uproaring Adrenaline.
* 2008 - Elijah runs Jetix on Mopar Magic for a European Tour.
* 2009 - Elijah does a exhibition freestyle with Mopar Magic at Monster Jam World Finals X pit party nearby the V.I.P. Driving Experience.
* 2010 - Elijah runs his final season with Mopar Magic.
* 2011 - Elijah briefly moves to Blue Thunder mainly for arena shows, he then switches to Outlaw (Harper).
* 2012 - Elijah is injured at a RC Cola & Little Caesars' Off Road Jamboree show in Virginia Beach, Virginia with Outlaw, putting him out for the rest of the year.
* 2013 - Elijah moves to Iron Man for 2013. He wins freestyle at all Path of Destruction events.
* 2014 - Elijah drives Iron Man for the start of 2014, then moves to Bigfoot 19 for the indie shows.
* 2015 - Elijah drives The Rake on Bigfoot 19 for a stunt that revolved crushing four cars that said "Racism", "Sexism" "Ableism" and "Homophobia".
* 2016 - Elijah starts Pure Metal Motorsports after he purchases Ground Pounder (now Shattered Brood), a Monster Energy from 2013 (now Monster Patrol \*Pure Metal\* ) and River Rat (now Asylum).
* 2017 - Elijah debuts his own truck called Mean Streak.
* 2018 - Elijah drives Wonder Woman on the Mean Streak chassis for the Canada shows.
* 2019 - Elijah wins the overall season championship for Monster Truck Throwdown.
* 2020 - Elijah puts his time on his Twitch.tv channel called blksungaming due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
* 2021 - Elijah returns to driving behind the wheel of Mean Streak on the Lizzy's Arena Bad Boys 'n Girls Tour.
* 2022 - Elijah sells Mean Streak to become a El Toro Loco.
* 2022 - Elijah drives Red Demon.

## Trivia

* Elijah's favorite TV shows to watch on the road are Bluey, Helluva Boss, Elinor Wonders Why and Metalocalypse.
* Elijah also says that his favorite movies to watch on the road are How to Train Your Dragon 2, Spirit Untamed, As the Gods Will (2014) and Mortal Kombat (2021).
* He is currently married to former Type-X vocalist Emma Malakaian since 2017. They currently reside in Washburn, Wisconsin.