Thursday, April 12, 2012

Greg Lutzka

Greg Lutzka is a professional skateboarder that skates goofy. His hometown is Huntington Beach, CA. He began skating in 1997 and turned professional only 5 years later in 2001. His current setup is Almost deck, Independent trucks, FKD bearings, Bones wheels, Globe shoes. He is a technical skater that loves to challenge himself and likes to throw kick-flip variations into his run, which usually he hits everything in the park.
Australia is one of Greg Lutzka's favorite places to visit - he calls it, "The clean America."

Mike Vallely

Mike Vallely is also known as Mike V. Along with being a professional skateboarder he is also a musician, actor, tv personel, professional wrestler, FHL hockey player, and a stuntman. He started his life of skateboarding around the age of 14. He got onto the front of Thatsher Magazine in August 1986 nad became pro in May of 1987. In 1988 he joined Powel Peralta team. After skating for them for awhile he quit to join World Industries only to leave again. While skating for World Industries he is credited for helping design the current standard board we still use today with both the nose and tail rounded off with a lip.

Mike V joined a band called Resistance only to play one show and then get kicked out for spending too much time Skateboarding. Mike is also featured in a lot of the Tony Hawk games and Tony Hawk's: Underground is even based on his very own Skateboarding career. He currently is living in Long Beach, California and I saw him last time i was there.

Monday, April 2, 2012

Alex Olson

Alex Olson was born in 1986 in the city of Santa Monica. His first board was a Toy Machine. He sarted skating in 1997 and is now a pro for the Girl skate team which he started in 2006. He is sponcered by Girl, Spitfire, Quicksilver, Indy, Supreme, and Lakia.

His skating has got him into many huge events like the Maloof Money Cup and the X Games. Both in which he did very good in. He is another one of my favorite skaters that skates for the Girl Team.

Monday, March 26, 2012

Mike Mo

Mike Mo is yet another pro skater from the girl team. He was born in 1990 and first started skating when he was 9 years old in 1999. His stance is regular and he likes to skate on boards that are 7 3/4. He is currently sponsored by Girl Skateboarding, DC Shoes, Matrix Clothing, Glassy Glasses, Filmore, Swiss, Mob Griptape, Royal Trucks, Diamond Clothing, and Skatelab.

Mike mo is known for his flatground skating. After he broke his wrist skating a rail he no longer likes to skate them and has focused more on his flatground skating.

Monday, March 12, 2012

Rob Dyrdek

This week i'll be talking about Rob Dyrdek, who started his skateboarding career when he was 11. He was really focused on his skating and one year after he got sponcered by the same group as Neil Blender, which they soon split apart from the group and started the Alien Workshop Skateboard Company. Rob is sponcered by Alien Workshop, DC Shoes, and Monster Energy.

Rob has had his roles in TV. He has been the star of two reality TV series, "Rob and Big" and "Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory." He also hosts "Rediculousness" which is just a knock-off of Tosh.0 and is not as popular. In one of his episodes of "Rob and Big" he broke 21 separate world records including: Consecutive front-side ollies, Ollie big spins, Consecutive nollie kickflips, 360-degree kickflips in one minute, Heel flips in one minute, Consecutive ollies, Nollie kickflips in one minute, Longest stationary manual, Switch frontside kickflips in one minute, Longest 50-50 rail grind, Longest board slide, Highest skateboard ramp jump into water, and also made the biggest skateboard ever.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Eric Koston

Eric Koston is one of the pro skaters that skate for girl, which is my favorite team. He is a Thia-American and he grew up in San Bernardino, California. He began skating in 1986 and became pro after only 8 years of skating. He is pretty much a boss. he is a co-owner of two different things , fourstar clothing and "The Berrics" skatepark along with Another pro skater Steve Berra.


He is sponcered by Girl Skateboards, Independent Trucks, Spitfire Wheels, Nike SB shoes, Fourstar Clothing, Oakley Sunglasses and Jessup Griptape. He is considered by many to be the Billy Ruff of street skateboarding. He has been in many T.V. shows and Movies, the more recongnized things being Jackass, Jackass Backyard Barbique, and Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory. He has also been featured in many games like all the Tony Hawk games, except Pro Skater 1 and the Ride games, and in Skate 2 and 3.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Daewon Song

Daewon Song is another pro skater who skates for Almost. He is a co-owner of it along with Rodney Mullen and some other skaters. In 1999 he tried to start his own skateboard company called Deca but it failed to grow any and he was forced to close it.

Daewon was featured in some of the Tony Hawk games starting with American Wasteland and starting with Proving Grounds. Daewon song is another one of the best freestyle skaters. he is credited with the first Hardflip ever caught on tape.