Professional Skaters

Here are the best of the best.

Tony Hawk-Here is one of the very best skateboarders. He has created many company's. Here they are. Birdhouse Skateboards, is now one of the largest skateboard companies in the world and he's signing six-figure endorsement deals with companies like Adio shoes. In 1998 he and his family started a kid's skate clothing company called, of course, Hawk Clothing, which was acquired by Quiksilver in early 2000. In 1999 Activision and Tony created Tony Hawk's Pro Skater video game for PlayStation. They expected decent sales, but the copies blew off the shelves and it quickly became a bestseller. The next year, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 was released and jumped to the number one position for over a month. Both versions are available on all platforms today, and a third version of the game has recently been out.

He has invented the 900(2 1/2 rotations), them only one to perform this trick.

Rodney Mullen- he invented the most tricks he is known as the godfather of street.

Rodney Mullen turned pro when he was thirteen. He started skateboarding on January 1st 1977 at the age of 10 after months of pleading to his father for a skateboard (his dad was a doctor and didn't want him skating but after new years festivities his dad promised him a board and when he woke up couldn't go back on the promise) Much of the tricks we do on the streets today come to us courtesy of Rodney Mullen. In the 80's he skated for "Powell Peralta" as a member of the infamous "Bones Brigade", where he performed smooth freestyle lines for their many videos of that era.
He also stared in (and did the freestyle stunts for Christian Slater) in 1988's hugely popular "Gleaming the Cube"
During the 90's He skated for "Plan-b" and this is where he did his most technical and impressive tricks.Plan-b's videos were one of the best of the early 90's . This is when Rodney (and everyone else at that time!) got his most tech. eg. "1 1/2 kickflip to casper slide", "casper slide 360 flip out" and the ballet like freestyle opening to his section on "Second Hand smoke".

His sponcer's include enjoi skateboards, globe shoes, tensor trucks, matix clothing, blacktop griptape.

Here is a mind boggling list of tricks that he invented by himself.

-540 Shove It's '79

-50 50 Casper's '80

-Helipops '80

-Flat Ollies '81

-Gazelles '81

-No Handed 50 50's '81

-Kickflips '81

-Heelflips '82

-Impossibles '82

-Sidewinders '83