The Pro's
Tony Hawk
Depedning on whose home you were checking, Tony Hawk's been a household name for over
twenty years. But it's really his last half-decade of contest winning and 900 spinning that
have tattooed HAWK on the foreheads of our youth. A trailblazer in the effort to bring
skateboarding to the ends of the world, Tony has become an icon for a generation of kids
sorely needing One. Through the invention of countless tricks, his seemingly limitless
potential, and a sense of grace and class that follows behind his quickly-moving self, Tony
Hawk soars.
Steve Caballero
One of a select few, this "Godfather of Modern Skateboarding, " helped defince just what it
means to be a professional skateboarder, pioneering this modern era of technical skating
with innovations like his namesake fakie ollie 360 - the Caballerial. With the energy of a
teeanger and thesophistication of a man who has made his own way, Cab is a year-round
skater who teaches by example. He rides every terrain - street, vert, and parks - with the
skill and passion of a master.
Kareem Campbell
An ideal combination of both East and West coast sensibilities, Kareem Campbell is not a
bridge joining an equal-but-opposing geo-cultural issue, he's just an authentic skater.
Born and rasied in real cities, his skate-life come-up led Kareem to develop an urban
foundation to his skateboarding. Not by design, but rather out of necessity, his
metro-style is well-honed version of what the rest of the world's street dwellers hope to
someday attain: Smart, real, and smoothed out - without the R&B.
Rune Glifberg
An O.G. Dance enduring the climes of sunny So-Cal, Rune Glifberg's been known to phone home
using ubiquitous digital technology. His extra-terssetrial power-style has led him to the
pdium of many a vert contest, but he's surprisingly well versed in all of the undisciplined
disicplines of modern skating - parks, pools, streets, and, of course, whatever. Pinching
bits and pieces of experience from all terrain has made Rune one of the most versatile
skaters of the day. Rune has shown that street, vert, or otherwise, it is possible to be at
home no matter where one may be in the world.
Eric Koston
The clean-bean ideal of an everyskater, Eric Koston has quietly become skateboarding's most
influential front-row cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers. Tirelessly supporting hos
home team to a dominating NBA Championshop two-peat, Eric has also managed to evolve hos
smooth, consistent, and innovative skateboard skills to the point that young fans
everywhere are abandoning their dreams of crossovers and three pointers in hopes of someday
nailing fifteen-star bakside noseblunt slides, "Just like Koston."
Bucky Lasek
Bucky Lasek is an excitable twenty-something who, once emerging from the long shadow cast
by his friend and mentor Tony Hawk, proceeded to destroy any sitcom sidekick preconceptions
by cranking out hos own style of beyond-the-boundaries vert skating. Bucky caries along
with him a weighty satchel of trickiness that includes about-the-lip flips and twists and a
laundry list of tech coping sorcery that any Jedi would respect. The force is strong in
this one.
Bam Margera
Bam Margera is both lightning bolt and lightning rod - snapping necks with his unrestrained
Pennsylvania-grown skate style, and harnessing the energy of his own massive discharge by
video taping literally every waking moment of hos practical-joker lifestyle. For skaters,
he's an hilariously talented breath of fresh air in the form of seriously non-serious, and
for the rest of the planet who knows him simply as "The jackass who skates," he's the bad
example that everyone wants to follow. Perfectly Shocking.
Rodney Mullen
Rodney Mullen birthed today's street tech. Period. An ican among idols, he's the man who
freestyled many of the moves today's freshest pros use as a foundation for their own
progressive skating. Flat ground ollies, 360 flips, and ollie impossibles were all made
manifest by the critical thought and problem solving of this tenured Prof. of skateboard
conceptualism.
Chad Muska
With a nod to the past manifested in Muska Style, be it his deck designs of his daring
'dos, this heroic skater proudly, represents today's new breed of renaissance professional
skateboarders. This customised sled shredder is known not only for his breathtaking leaps
and bounds on board, but his otherlevel self promotion - demoing, music making, and palm
pressing like the tireless public figure he's built himself into. Still, Muska has and
always will be respected for fearlessly testing the physical bounds of real-deal street
skating with the best very of them.
Andrew Reynolds
Bringing a precise lank and stomp to the sometimes flailing world of big-drop street
skating, Andrew Reynolds' It's-Hammer-Time tendecies are powered by his willingness to
throw his six-foot frame from heights that make limping crybabies out of a lesser men.
Powered by invisible springs and kept upright with hidden gyroscopes, Reynolds represents
skateboarding's ultimate fighting machine - declassified and unleashed on the planet in
hopes of keeping our streets free of ticky-tack mediocrity.
Geoff Rowley
An explosion of over-the-top activity has elevated Jeff Rowley from excellent skater to
skateboarding-s par excellence. Consistently operating above the alsorans in the
non-competive competition that defines real skateboarding, this relocated Brit has paid his
fair share of dues whilst unceremoniously being dubbed the official holder of the title,
King Assasin of Unsuspecting Rails and Double Sets. And that's official.
Elissa Steamer
Truly a skater's skater, Elissa Steamer hasn't made her name in professional skateboarding
as a flag wawing "first female," but as a no-nonsense skater with a sick desire to learn,
progress, and rise abowe even her own preconceptions of what can be done on-board. Taking
her lumps and paying her dues along with the rest of the pro field, she's altered the
testosterone-soaked landscape of skateboarding by refusing to lower herself to the level of
gender debates and instead choosing to just shut up and skate.
Jamie Thomas
Coming up quick on fifteen years of serios skateboarding, Jamie Thomas still wakes up
everyday thinking, living, and breathing his leap-of-faith style skating - and shows no
sign of easing up and time soon. With a drive strong enough to motivate his mind over what
really matters, Thomas can often be found speeding through immense handrail and gap
situations leaving in his wake the shredded conceptions of where skateboarding can be
shoved for the sake of "How far?" and "How high?"