Sean Sheffey, a Maryland native, began his sponsored skateboarding journey with Shut Skates, a New York-centric company. He first encountered Shut at the Eastern Skateboard Association Championships in Ocean City, impressed by their unique style and graffiti-inspired vibe, a departure from the prevalent California aesthetic. He connected with Bruno Musso, received a Shut Shark board,
It is almost impossible to cover the complete legacy of Steve Rocco. No one would have known that when Steve, the oldest of six siblings in Hermosa Beach, received his first skateboard at age eleven it would begin a story molded in success, risk, and controversy. First gaining recognition as an excellent freestyle skater, Rocco
Follow Jason on Instagram A native of Southern California residing in Texas since 2015, Jason Lee (born 1970) is a film photographer, actor, and director. Having established a successful career as a professional skateboarder during the sport’s pivotal late-1980s and early-’90s period, Lee would go on to pursue acting in 1994, which lead to work
Find Guy on Social Media Not many skateboarders have been in the public eye as long as Guy Mariano. Born in Los Angeles, he was a prodigy from not long after the moment he stepped on a board. The Powell-Peralta video Ban This introduced him to the world alongside his childhood friends Paulo Diaz, Rudy Johnson and
Today’s street skateboarding is a far cry from the pool-influenced riding of the 1970s from which it was spawned, and the Gonz had a lot to do with that. Mark Gonzales, the pioneering and consequently obliterating ripper of all oncoming terrain, subject to the variables in which he chose to place before his path, naturally, didn’t set out to
