My first sk8board experience was in 1972, in a garage in Washington state. A board with Black Knight grafix and clay wheels. I pushed around on it in the garage, found it to be challenging just to stand on, and I’ve never looked back. We moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1974 and I met …
Starting skateboarding at the age of 14, a lot of street skating and a couple of different hometowns later I got my first live impression of Vert skating at the halfpipe in Konstanz (Germany). A while later I moved there to go vert skating and I am still living there. I started to travel with …
WCS certified Korean trainer DOB: 1985/ 3/ 21 Location: Seoul Korea My name is Keun Yupp Song but you can call me Yupp! I was born and raised in a town called Daejon in South Korea. When I was 12 years old, a bunch of kids were rolling around in the class hallway on their …
Location : Seoul, Korea Being raised up with the absence of parental guidance as a child, Baek didn’t have the luxury of getting parental attention. However, if there was one it would be his very first skateboard as a gift he received in the X-mas present he got in 1987. As a child, seeing other …
Dan is from the South East of England and currently resides in London. He has been a skateboarder since 1987 and began competing in the early nineties. He first got sponsored in 1996 by Vans, and was a Warp Tour finalist in 1997. He rode for various different board companies until Death Skateboards was born …
Name: Stephan ‘Slow’ Dietrich Born: 9th April 1975 Lives: Berlin Germany Vans Store Berlin Storemanager, Radioskateboards Teammanager I got my first Skateboard when I was 12 years, some small Banana Board. I just cruzed on my knee’s. When I was 14 i got my first real Skateboard then. Toxicboard Gullwingtrucks and Bones Wheels Since then …
Name: Mirko Holzmüller Born: 22.October 1979 Lives: Munich, Germany My name is Mirko Holzmüller I was born October 1979 and raised in Hof/Saale – northern Bavaria next to the border of Czech Republic. Due to the bad weather conditions there, it’s also called Bavarian-Siberia. As I started skateboarding in 1994 a group of skateboarders from …
Name: Vesa Ikola Born: 1976 Live: Lohja (60km from Helsinki), Finland How many years skating? 20+ years When and where did you start skating? I started skateboarding in my hometown Lohja around 1990 What other events have you judged? Etnies Euro Open-Basel, 10 years of Simpel Session in Estonia, Finnish Championships contests, Helsinki Hookup (formerly …
Name: Oli Buergin Country: Switzerland Born in Basel, Switzerland 1973, started skateboarding in 1985, took a break for about two years to ride BMX and then got back into skating. Been hooked to all aspects of skateboarding ever since. In 1992 I started working for Vertical Skateramps and got to travel all over Europe for …
Name: Brigo Saez Montero Started skateboarding: 1989 Lives: Vitoria, Spain I have started skateboarding in 1989 when I was 17 years old. Than I have moved from La Coruna city to Vitoria where I live until now. I met new friends like Javier Sarmiento, Alain Goikoetxea and Ibon Marino that I started to skateboard with. …
