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.