Calvin Ligono

Calvin Ligono is a skateboarder sponsored by New Balance who lives in London. He’s well travelled and consistently upbeat but we’re not just talking about his personality and skating. After finding out he’s lived in Africa, America, and the North…

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Gulan

Gulan is an artist and skater from London, England who draws, paints and illustrates. His multifaceted art features signature warping faces, highly imaginative situations, settings and scenarios, wrapped in bold lines embedded with accompanying bright and dark colours. It’s fortunate…

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Marcus Palmer

Marcus Palmer is a skateboarder from Birmingham who’s sponsored by Emerica. He’s got a rad style, rips street and ramps and can seamlessly skate both at super speed with original style and he has great Hardflips. He came to our…

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Paul Sunderland

Paul Sunderland is a skateboarder and musician who has been running punk and metal label Give Praise Records since 2005. You can see from his company’s collaborations with skate musicians and it’s skateboarding graphical output that he’s devoted to skating…

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Tyler Warren

Tyler Warren is a Canadian skateboarder and filmmaker from Calgary who skates for Alltimers. He has a super tight selection of tricks, a tenacious push and an equally quick wit. He’s been stacking standout skate clips for a few decades…

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Roberto Cuellar

Roberto Cuellar is a skater and artist from Mexico living in Berlin, Germany. His skateable sculptures are pieces of fine art. But there’s more to them than solid skate obstacles with intriguing aesthetics. As a skater and sculptor with a…

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Ed Syder

Ed Syder’s illustrations are drawn from a love for skateboarding and his vested interests in the pop culture, music and film that captured him as a kid. So it makes sense that a film that featured skating first inspired him…

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Henry Edwards Wood

Henry Edwards Wood produces skate videos that transcend the boundaries of art and skateboarding cultural documentation. His relentless drive to hone his craft and capture unseen skate talent, impactful tricks and the intangible moments that he manages to witness behind…

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Zach McAdam

Zach McAdam is a skater and filmmaker from Lancashire who runs the Panasonic Youth brand. His skate crew, based in Sheffield and the North of England, has an eclectic bag of styles and mix of personal tastes but share an…

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Al Hodgson

Al Hodgson is a skater and filmmaker from Brighton, England who runs Orwellian World Landscape. He’s produced a plethora of videos and products, where he displays his curious fascination with dystopian worlds, the inner and outer workings of the VX,…

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RB Umali

R.B. Umali is the filmmaker behind one of street skateboarding’s most treasured visual gems, the Zoo York Mixtape video. He captured the raw intensity of East Coast skating in a finely polished way that inspires skating, fashion and music to…

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James Bush

James Bush connects the dots on tech tricks that many cannot. His passion for complex constructions doesn’t just end on his board, he also works as a graphic designer which just further draws his focus into laying down well-spaced lines…

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Danny Gonzalez

Danny Gonzalez’s tricks turned skateboarding upside down. He’s got a unique way of putting himself in difficult positions and getting the most creative impact out of whatever he’s doing. His devotion to off-kilter moves has kept skaters hooked on his…

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Shaun Currie

Shaun Currie is a skater who lives in Sheffield, England, who’s quick-footed style and slick bag of tricks have seen him become one of the most standout skaters in the UK. But everybody knows that there’s more to Shaun than…

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Jackson Casey

Jackson Casey is a skater and filmmaker who runs Pyramid Country. Living and working in Arizona, his space meets world style skate videos capture the tricks, tribulations and triumphant skate situations that he and his Pyramid Country crew unearth whilst…

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Kris Vile

Kris Vile is a skateboarder from Birmingham, England who’s been a standout presence on his board since the day he started. He’s always pushing himself to do the gnarliest and most challenging tricks he can on whatever is in front…

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Diego De Souza

Diego De Souza is a skateboarder and filmmaker from Brazil. His skate videos blend a super-futuristic sci-fi-inspired visual aesthetic, with hard, tech and gnarly skating. He’s a great filmer but he’s also a sick skateboarder himself. Diego and his skate…

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Luka Pinto

Luka Pinto’s spontaneous street skateboarding is a great thing to watch but there’s more to it than your eyes notice at first.He’s a skater and artist from Jersey, England a remote island where things regularly grow in isolation. So he’s…

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Matt Rodriguez

Matt Rodriguez’s skateboarding, music and art is flowing, fluid and fast. He’s got a unique, loose style on a board and a diverse trick selection and his spontaneous approach to skating on all-terrain oozes with creativity. So it’s no surprise…

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Ben Colen

Ben Colen is a skateboarder and photographer who’s eye for unique moments and steady judgement has allowed him to capture a series of the most standout skate photos. It’s probably because Ben skated for such a long time before he…

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Todd Francis

Todd Francis’ provocative graphical style is imprinted into the history of skateboarding. A brilliant artist with a great sense of humour is rare but one with a dedication to shifting general perceptions through their graphics that make skaters laugh is…

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Daewon Song

Daewon Song has pushed skateboarding in so many different ways it’s almost impossible to define.  There’s no manual for Daewon’s technical tricks yet he’s been exploring the possibility of what he can do on a skateboard as a pro skater…

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Ray Barbee

Ray Barbee is a skateboarding pioneer and musician who put No Complys on the map in the 90s. If you’ve never seen his video parts or listened to his music, you need to. Just like the soulful sounds he makes…

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Rich Smith

Rich Smith is a skate filmer and brand owner who has made his name by creating jazz-infused skate company Skateboard Café and also capturing hours of quality footage with skaters on his team and hundreds of others around the UK…

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Brad Cromer

Brad Cromer is a pro skater and artist who powerfully meshes creative and innovative tricks on his board with a super clean style. His artwork is similarly imaginative and bold and if he’s not making art, he’s looking for spots…

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Kevin Romar

Kevin Romar is a skater and DJ who has done some of the gnarliest tricks with the smoothest style. He’s got a twisted trick selection. Kevin also regularly makes quick power moves on his turntables for thousands of nightgoers for…

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Spencer Fujimoto

Spencer Fujimoto has skated for some of the most prestigious skate companies of all-time. As a kid, he was part of the original 90s World Industries team. During his teens in SF he was a local at EMB and by…

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Alex Olson

Alex Olson’s ability to skate anything in his path, at the kind of speed you should really be wearing a helmet to handle, saw him landing memorable video parts for Girl, Lakai, Nike and Supreme from the early-2000s onwards –…

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Patrick O’Dell

Patrick O’Dell is a skate photographer and filmmaker who created the Epicly Later’d series. Utilising interviews and archive footage Patrick’s online skate docu-series showcased the lives, successes and struggles of skateboarding’s most interesting and elusive personalities. It’s one of the…

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Alphonzo Rawls

Alphonzo Rawls is an innovative skater, shoe designer and graphic artist who turned pro in the early 90’s. Alf went pro at a time when skateboarding was changing at an incredibly quick pace and although skateparks were being shut down…

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Dan Mancina

Dan Mancina is a blind skateboarder who does gnarly tricks and tech ledge moves. But that’s not the only thing that defines his story. Dan’s passion to pursue challenges is unending. His lack of sight hasn’t slowed down his ability…

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Julian Klincewicz

Julian Klincewicz goes for everything on and off his board. He skates anything at anytime, that he can find inbetween working as a film director, musician, photographer, fashion designer and model. He’s created films and creative work for Louis Vuitton,…

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Anthony Acosta

Anthony Acosta is a skate photographer with next level skills on his board and behind the lens. Coming up in Cali he managed to get sponsored to skate and filmed some banging skate sections but he steadily became as obsessed…

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Daniel Castillo

Daniel Castillo is one of the most stylish skaters to ever do it, who has skated for Chocolate Skateboards since it began. His unique style and tricks have inspired skaters to switch it up for three decades and his ability…

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Chet Childress

Chet Childress is a rapid firing ripper on his board and at the canvas. An artist and a skater from a young age Chet turned pro and travelled the world nomadic style throwing down shocking tricks and documenting his experiences,…

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Alex Moul

Alex Moul is a musician and pro skateboarder from Oxford, England. Mouly invented tricks, got sponsored by Flip, made music, became a DJ and went pro.  He’s done the impossible and more. We are stoked Alex Moul is now a…

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Don Pendleton

Don Pendleton is one of the most prolific and productive graphic artists of all-time. Born in America’s Midwest, his art’s unmistakable hard lines, affinity for nature, and surreal framing has left a firm imprint on skate culture that is never…

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Weckingball

Weckingball is The Internet’s own self-proclaimed ‘Most Jacked Skater’ whose made his name from debunking manuals, doing incredible Frontside Flips and delivering a new kind of skate entertainment. He brings something new to skateboarding and we are super stoked he’s…

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Jon Humphries

Jon Humphries is a skater and photographer from the Northwestern United States who has shot some of the best skate photos ever. Jon has the innate ability to disappear with his camera whilst hanging with some of the most interesting…

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Braydon Szafranski

Braydon Szafranski’s risk-taking approach to life and skateboarding was formed as a youth on the streets of Las Vegas. Instead of sliding coins into casino slots, he gambled with his body and mind by skating down the biggest stairs, gaps…

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Marisa Dal Santo

Marisa Dal Santo is one of the gnarliest skaters to ever do it. Hailing from Chicago, Illinois, she launched into the skate world with an unforgettable part in Zero Skateboard’s Strange World. In that video, she skates some of the…

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Angel Acevedo

Angel Acevedo is a skater and artist from Pennsylvania who runs Terror of Planet X, a sick new East Coast board brand. TOPX’s nods to graphic novels and nostalgia are unique and creative but it’s not just its boards and…

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J. Grant Brittain

J. Grant Brittain has been at the forefront of skate photography since the 1970s. He was the photo editor of Transworld Skateboarding for two decades and has shot some of the best skate photos ever. We are stoked that J.…

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Kenny Reed

Kenny Reed‘s skateboarding is synonymous with exploration, his iconic video parts are filled with some of the best tricks and most obscure skate spots ever skated. His nomadic pro skate career and sick creative skateboarding inspired thousands of skaters to…

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Madars Apse

Against all odds Madars Apse became Latvia’s first pro street skater and one of the most famous pro skaters in the world. When he started skateboarding Latvia didn’t have a skate industry or skateparks at all. Madars learned how to…

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Colin Read

Colin Read’s skate footage always stands out. If he’s not literally kickflipping his camera or filming doubles lines with a VX in each hand he’s always thinking of a new way to capture skateboarding in a way that nobody has…

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Shit Pencil: Reel Cool

Shit Pencil is a skater and illustrator who makes some of the funniest art on the internet. His drawings and captions mesh out-of-the-box thinking, pop-culture and his bittersweet life experiences as a skateboarder to make jokes about the stuff that make…

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Darrell Stanton

Darrell is a pro skater and business creative     Where did you grow up? I first learnt to skate in the streets of Los Angeles, California. I moved quite a bit, so it was really a matter of who…

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Henry Jones

Henry Jones is a skater and illustrator   When did you first start drawing?  Both of my parents are pretty talented artists, and as far as I can remember I’ve always had a marker, crayon, pen or pencil in my…

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Joe Krolick

Joe was a filmer at 411VM and is one of the most prolific skate filmers ever   When did you first pick up a camera? I first picked up a video camera when I was 13. I broke my leg…

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Ragdoll

Ragdoll has done some of the gnarliest tricks ever on a skateboard but everybody knows his skating brought more to the table than that. He took classic tricks to dizzying new heights.     Ragdoll, Hippy Jump, Hollywood    …

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Sam Barrett: Reel Cool

Serious Sam Barrett is an artist and skateboarder from Yorkshire, England who makes awesome rock music. He’s always making music, playing gigs or touring and skateboarding. He’s been skating for over thirty years.  Sam is as serious about skateboarding as he…

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Torsten Frank

Torsten is a skateboarder from Stuttgart, Germany who is the Adidas global skate filmer     Hey Torsten, where in the world are you right now? I’m sitting at home in Stuttgart; it’s snowing outside. I just opened some old…

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Bobbi Abbey: Reel Cool

Bobbi Abbey is a skater and painter-illustrator from Leeds, England. His head-turning illustrations use graveyard laden imagery, the undead and the macabre to create absorbing, dense surrealist collages. Bobbi has been a member for a while so we did this reel cool interview to…

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Harry Chilcott

Harry is a skater and artist who runs DISJOINTED   I think skateboarding and being creative go hand-in-hand.   Skateboarding exposes you to so many things from fashion, filmmaking, photography… the list is endless but even if you don’t get…

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Mike York

Mike is a pro skater and company owner   My name is Mike York and I’m am a proud father of two, a professional skateboarder and I run Roller Horror.   For me, the relationship between skateboarding and art to…

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Michael Sieben

Michael Sieben is an artist, managing editor of Thrasher Magazine and co-owner of Roger   I run Roger, make art, skate, hang out with my family and friends, go swimming and read novels. I also enjoy eating breakfast tacos and…

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Erik Ellington

Erik Ellington is one of the most stylish skateboarders of all time and is the creative driving force behind Deathwish Skateboards   What do you think about the relationship of skateboarding to design and creativity, and what’s your approach to…

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Andy Jenkins

Andy Jenkins is an artist and skater   I try every day to get out of the bed with a good frame of mind (that happens about 63% of the time). I get in my car and drive for over…

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Feedback TS

Ted Barrow aka Feedback TS is a Satirical Skate Critic.     You’ve critiqued a load of skateboarding and honed an enjoyable style in the process – why did you decide to start Feedback, and how long have you been…

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Jeremy Wray

Jeremy Wray is a skater, artist and designer who has done some of the gnarliest tricks ever     Do you think there’s an inherent link between skateboarding and creativity? I believe it’s all undeniably linked – at least, it…

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Deville Nunes

Deville Nunes is a skater, Powell TM and a photographer   Born to a lawyer father and a circus performer mother, skateboarder and photographer Deville Nunes had already lived in five countries before he started skating in his teens. All…

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Nicolas Morales

Nicolas is a skateboarder, artist and filmmaker from Argentina   I am the editor-in-chief of Detiro Skatezine, an autogestive, open call, fanzine to promote local and around the country skate artists for free.   I also founded Escoba Films with…

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Chris Martin

Chris Martin is a skater and digital illustrator from England   I do digital illustration mostly, graphic design, clothing, spray painting and anything else I fancy messing about with.   I have been skating for years but always end up…

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Chris Miller

Chris is a skater and Editor of nyskateboarding.com   I’ve been the editor of NYskateboarding.com for 3 years. I’m also NY ambassador for boardsforbros and a high school art teacher.   It’s because of skating I picked up a camera.…

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Matt Devere

Matt is a skater from England who makes custom skateboards at Big Aye Skateboards   I handcraft skateboards and engrave them with custom artwork, as well as my own artwork… Skateboarding in itself is an art, with the freedom to…

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Joey Pressey

Joey is a skater and musician     You skated for Heroin with Fos. How did you get on and how was it skating for them? I’d just moved to London and had a flat to myself in Ladbroke Grove.…

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Callun Loomes

Callun Loomes is a filmer who runs Get Lesta     What’s your approach to skateboarding, design and filmmaking? Wing it. No – I’m sure, like me, everyone looks back at things they did and thinks, ‘What was I thinking?’…

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Chase Chivers

Chase is an artist and skater based in London   I am a skateboarder with creative tendencies, trying to battle a procrastination habit.   My creative approach to art is similar to my approach to skateboarding in that I like…

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Callum Sidlauskas

Callum Sidlauskas is a skater and artist from Birmingham   I’m a big fan of Polar and Fucking Awesome and think they’ve always got it on point. Music is an inspiration to me. I always like listening to tunes to get me…

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Bobby Puleo

Bobby Puleo is an East Coast Street Skateboarding Legend. He’s known for his unique artistic style and defiant commitment to creative exploration on and off his board. He owns and runs online-based board brand VICTIM     What’s your full…

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Biko Issah: Reel Cool

Biko is a tattoo artist and illustrator whose photorealistic style is so accurate it’s scary. When we discovered Biko’s talent we had to make him a member Since he joined a lot has changed for Biko. He moved to Barcelona,…

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Corey Duffel: Reel Cool

Skaters who like big stairs and rails and artistic creatives have more in common then you think.Both take a lot of risk, foresight and follow through. Both are also usually exhibited in front of large crowds of concerned onlookers who…

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Doobie Doodles

Zander Sattee is an artist and skater who runs Doobie Doodles    I draw, make music, make videos, design clothes, and sometimes try to make short cartoons.   I think skateboarding inspires me partly just because I love it and…

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Jazz Wade

Jazz is a skater and illustrator   Skateboarding is the best thing out there! It opens your eyes to such a varied and creative world, it gives you the chance to meet so many people and look at life around…

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Shit Pencil

Alex AKA Shit Pencil is a skater and artist   I’ve been drawn to art since I was at school. I really wanted to draw skate-related stuff during class but my art teacher wasn’t keen.   Instead, I spent about…

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Neddy

Neddy is a skater and filmmaker based in Oxford, England   There’s always been a strong relationship between skateboarding and making films. I think watching UK videos like Blueprint’s WFTW, the Viewfinder series and First Broadcast got me hyped on…

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Postcode Draws

Alex Ives is a skater and artist from Leicester England   I’m a dad and I work in a call centre. A lot of the time I draw what’s in my head like the pop culture and hip-hop culture that…

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Tom Delves

Tom is a skater and artist based in London   Being a skateboarder just exposes you to loads of other creative stuff such as the music in skate videos and the graphics on boards and ads.   I think that…

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