Girl Skateboards is a Torrance, California based skateboarding company that was started in August 1993 by Rick Howard, Mike Carroll, Megan Baltimore, and Spike Jonze. Their primary product is professionally endorsed skateboard decks. Girl is part of the Crailtap family, which also includes Chocolate Skateboards, Lakai Footwear, Royal Trucks, and Four Star Clothing, Ruby Republic, and Skate Mental.
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History
Howard and Carroll were riding for Plan B and left over a wheel invoicing dispute to start their own company.[1] Baltimore worked in administration for World Industries at the time and left with them. Sean Sheffey, Jovante Turner, Tim Gavin, Rudy Johnson, Eric Koston, Guy Mariano all left their sponsors to make up the original Girl Skateboards team. Chocolate Skateboards is Girl's sister team, formed in April 1994. It was started when the Girl roster was already too large to take on more riders. Girl's most recent pro, Jereme Rogers, was let go on April 18, 2007. [2] Girl has recently won the Transworld "Best Team" award for 2006.
Team
Professional team
- Eric Koston
- Mike Carroll
- Rick Howard
- Brian Anderson
- Rick McCrank
- Brandon Biebel
- Guy Mariano
- Jeron Wilson
Amateur Team
- Alex Olson
- Mike Mo Capaldi
- Sean Malto
Previous team riders
- Tony Ferguson
- Sean Sheffey
- Tim Gavin
- Rudy Johnson
- Jovontae Turner
- Colin McKay
- Paul Rodriguez Jr.
- Jereme Rogers
- Robbie McKinley
Videography
- Goldfish (1993)
- Mouse (1996)
- Harsh Euro Barge
- Yeah Right! (2003)
- Badass Meets Dumbass (2006) (promo)
References
- ^ Brooke, M (1999). Concrete Wave: The History Of Skateboarding. ISBN 1-894020-54-5.
- ^ http://www.skateboarding.com/skate/news/article/0,23271,1612254,00.html
http://www.twsbiz.com/twbiz/industrynews/article/0,21214,704403,00.html
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