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Rodney Mullen Basic Bio Information:

* Name: John Rodney Mullen
* Gender: Male
* Hometown: Redondo Beach, CA or Hermosa Beach, CA
* Date of Birth: August 17th, 1966 in Gainesville, FL
* Family: married to Traci Mullen
* Occupation: Engineer / Skate Brand Owner / Skateboarder
* Started Skating: 1974
* Started Competing: 1977
* Turned Pro: 1980
* Favored Discipline: Street
* #1 Sponsors: Almost, Enjoi, Darkstar, Tensor, Speed Demons, Matix, Globe
* Stance: Regular
* Nicknames: Mutt, King

Rodney Mullen Skateboarding Style and Strengths: Rodney Mullen is easily the best street skateboarder the world has yet seen. His skateboarding style is comfortable and relaxed, making the incredible tricks he does look light and simple. Rodney Mullen often smiles and laughs, while pulling off trick after trick that no one has ever seen. Rodney Mullen is inventive, creative, confident and easy going.
Rodney Mullen Favorite / Signature Skateboarding Tricks: "I like frontside crooked grind variations, particularly the munkey flip out, or nollie hard flip. Darkslides are fun." (Quote from Skateboard.com)
Rodney Mullen Skateboarding Tricks Invented:

* Flatground Ollie
* Godzilla Rail Flip
* 540 Shove-it
* 50-50 Saran Wrap
* Helipops (360 Nollie)
* Gazelles
* No Handed 50-50 Kickflip
* Heelflip
* Double heelflips
* Ollie Impossible
* Sidewinders
* 360 Flip
* 360 pressure Flip
* Casper 360 Flip
* 50-50 Sidewinders
* One footed Ollie
* Backside 180 Flip
* Ollie Nosebones
* Ollie Fingerflip
* Airwalks
* Frontside Heelflip Shove-its

* Switchstance 360 Flips
* Helipop Heelflips
* Kickflip Underflip
* Casper Slides
* Half Flip Darkslide
* 540 double kickflip
* Caballerial impossible
* Half-cab kickflip underflip
* Handstand flips
* Rusty slides
* Kickflip

Rodney Mullen Skateboarding Career Highlights:
1977 - Mullen won the first freestyle contest he entered
1980 - joined the Powell-Peralta Bones Brigade
1984, 85, 87, 88 - featured in The Bones Brigade Videos 1-4
1988 - appeared in feature film, Gleaming the Cube
1992 - began World Industries with Steve Rocco
1990+ - featured in videos by Plan B, A-Team, Globe and Almost
2002 - won Transworld Readers' Choice Award for Skater of the Year
2002 - created Almost skateboard company
2003 - wrote "The Mutt: How to Skateboard and not Kill Yourself"
Rodney Mullen Personal History: Rodney Mullen's father, a doctor, only allowed Rodney to skate if he always wore pads and would quit after his first serious injury. Rodney Mullen avoided injury and obeyed his father, and got sponsored 9 months after getting his own skateboard. Freestyle skateboarding faded from popularity, but Rodney Mullen took his creative skills and continues to feature in skate videos up to the present day. Rodney Mullen no longer skates in competitions, but still skateboards two hours a day.
Rodney Mullen Interesting Fact: Rodney Mullen has only lost one freestyle contest. Ever. In his entire life. And in the contest he lost, he came in 2nd, because he was sick. Rodney Mullen has even won one vert contest.
Rodney Mullen Quote: "Do what you love and try not to look at what other people occupy themselves with. Most people seem restless and bounce around too much to focus or even pay attention enough to themselves to figure out exactly what they really do love, as opposed to what the people that surround them are doing

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Rune Glifberg Basic Bio Information:

* Name: Rune Glifberg
* Gender: Male
* Hometown: Copenhagen, Denmark
* Date of Birth: October 7, 1974 in Copenhagen, DEN
* Family: single with two daughters
* Occupation: Pro Skateboarder
* Started Skating: 1986
* Started Competing: 1990
* Turned Pro: 1992
* Favored Discipline: Vert
* #1 Sponsor: Etnies
* Stance: Regular
* Nickname: The Great Dane

Rune Glifberg Skateboarding Style and Strengths: Rune Glifberg is an all terrain skateboarder, but does best with vert. He is versatile and flexible, and able to pull off great back-to-back tricks.
Rune Glifberg Favorite / Signature Skateboarding Tricks: Rune Glifberg said in an interview with ESPN that he loves backside tailslides, because of how the move twists his body. Rune Glifberg is also one of the first skaters to pull off a kickflip board slide. (ESPN)
Rune Glifberg Skateboarding Career Highlights:
1995 - Bronze in Skateboard Vert at X Games
1997 - Silver in Skateboard Vert at X Games
1999 - Bronze in Vert Doubles at X Games
2002 - Bronze in both Vert and Vert Doubles at X Games
2002 - Ranked 3rd with World Cup Skateboarding's end of year rankings worldwide, ranked first in Europe
2003 - Silver in Vert Doubles and Bronze in Vert at X Games
2003 - Ranked 4th in world year end rankings (WCS), and 2nd in Europe
2004 - Bronze in Vert and X Games
2004 - First in Gravity Games
Rune Glifberg Personal History: Rune Glifberg was 11 years old when a good friend visited the US and brought him back a skateboard as a gift. His natural talent was obvious, and Rune skated both street and vert, but loving bowls the most. He won his first pro contest in France in 1990, and turned pro two years later. Rune Glifberg moved from Denmark to Costa Mesa, California after he finished high school in 1995. Rune Glifberg still returns home to visit Denmark 2 or 3 times a year.
Rune Glifberg Interesting Fact: Rune Glifberg has won the most X Games medals, without winning a gold. Rune Glifberg also has what he calls a "small collection of BMWs."
Rune Glifberg Quote: Rune skates all terrain, and says, "There's a lot of different paths and styles of skating. I enjoy them all."

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Ryan Sheckler Basic Bio Information:

* Name: Ryan Sheckler
* Gender: Male
* Height: 5'4"
* Weight: 107 lbs
* Hometown: San Clemente, California
* Date of Birth: Dec. 30th, 1989
* Family: parents Gretchen and Randy Sheckler, brothers Shane "T-Bone" and Kane "Vol-Kane-O" Sheckler
* Occupation: Pro Skateboarder, Student
* Started Skating: 1993
* Started Competing: 1997
* Turned Pro: 2003
* Favored Discipline: Street / Park
* #1 Sponsor: Etnies
* Stance: Regular
* Setup: Almost pro model deck, Tensor 7.5 trucks, 52 mm wheels, Ninja bearings

Ryan Sheckler Skateboarding Style and Strengths: As the youngest pro skateboarder on the circuit, Ryan Sheckler has blown away the crowds with his ever increasing skill and variety of skateboarding tricks. Ryan Sheckler skates fast and hard, rarely bails, and has strong technical skateboarding skills.
Ryan Sheckler Favorite / Signature Skateboarding Tricks: In an interview for the X Games, Ryan Sheckler says, "I normally like to skate a good ramp over something, so last year at X Games (2004) when they had the jump over the bush, that was fun. And good set of 9-stairs is good too. Right at the moment, I'm doing good at everything I'm skating, spinning, flip tricks, it should be better for me at X Games (2005)."
Ryan Sheckler Skateboarding Career Highlights:
1996 - won CASL 10 & Under State Championships (at 7 years old)
1997 - won CASL 14 & Under State Championships (at 8 years old)
2003 - turned pro after winning 5th at Globe World Cup in Australia
2003 - won gold at X Games (street)
2004 - began to focus purely on street skating, traveling and filming for videos
2004 - Took first in US Skateboarding Championships, Pomona, California
2005 - repeatedly took first in Dew Action Sports Tour
Ryan Sheckler Personal History: At the age of 18 months, Ryan Sheckler found his dad's old school pool riding skateboard. Soon after that, Ryan began to push around on one knee, and eventually stood up on the skateboard. Ryan Sheckler is now a teenager, still in school, who also happens to be a professional world famous skateboarder. Ryan was home schooled through 7th and 8th grade, and attends Futures High School (a one-on-one school program for athletes and actors). Ryan loves riding moto-X along with skateboarding.
Ryan Sheckler Interesting Fact: Ryan Sheckler is the youngest pro skater to ever win gold at the X Games (2004

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Sandro Dias Basic Bio Information:

* Name: Sandro Dias
* Gender: Male
* Height: 5'5"
* Weight: 148 lbs
* Hometown: Santo Andre, Sao Paulo, Brazil
* Date of Birth: April 18, 1975
* Family: single, mother Leila, father Afonso, 3 sisters
* Occupation: Professional Skateboarder
* Started Skating: 1987
* Started Competing: 1996
* Turned Pro: 1997
* Favored Discipline: Vert
* Sponsors: Reef
* Stance: Regular

Sandro Dias Skateboarding Styles and Strengths: Sandro Dias flies in the vert ramp. He gets higher than everyone, and has been called the king of the 540 (though he can also pull off a 900 when he feels like it). His strength and style is focused strongly in aerial tricks.
Sandro Dias Favorite / Signature Skateboarding Tricks: Easily the 540, which Sandro Dias says is "easy for me." He has more than twelve different variations of the 540.
Sandro Dias Skateboarding Career Highlights:
2000 - Bronze in X Games Vert Doubles
2002 - Silver in X Games Vert Best Trick
2004 - Won first at X Games Vert Best Trick (gold), US Skateboarding Champs, West 49 Canadian Open, LG Action Sports Tour in Shanghai China (he won first in all of these!), and ranked first in the entire world in WCS (World Cup Skateboarding) end of year rankings
2005 - Bronze in Vert at X Games, Gold in Vert at Asian X Games, and first in World Championship of Skateboarding (Germany) and Nokia FISE (France)
Sandro Dias Personal History: Sandro Dias got his first skateboard as a Christmas present in 1986, when he was a little kid in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He entered his first competition at age 8, a street skating event, and won 8th place. Sandro Dias continued to skate and regularly beat out full time skaters, while also working for his father at his mineral extracting road supply company. "I never thought of going pro," Sandro told Redbull.com. "Being a professional came as a consequence of having fun!"
Sandro Dias Interesting Fact: Sandro Dias is the first skater to do a 900 in a competition.
Sandro Dias Quote: On Redbull.com - "The philosophy of skating is fun, what else can I say?"

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Shaun White Basic Biographical Information:

* Name: Shaun White
* Gender: Male
* Hometown: Carlsbad, California
* Date of Birth: September 3, 1986
* Family: Single, mom Cathy White, dad Roger White, brother Jesse, sister Kari
* Occupation: Pro Skateboarder, Pro Snowboarder
* Began Skating: 1993
* First Sponsored: 2003
* Turned Pro: 2003
* Favored Discipline: Vert
* Stance: Regular
* #1 Sponsor: Burton
* Nickname: Flying Tomato

Shaun White Skateboarding Style and Strengths: Shaun White combines his skills as a pro snowboarder and pro skateboarder, creating his own fresh style. Shaun pulls off spins and airs, making them look easy. Shaun White is also gutsy, spending every one of his runs in the 2005 X Games Best Trick competition trying to pull off the never-before-seen 1080 (See Photo). Shaun didn't manage to land it, but he will eventually.
Shaun White Favorite / Signature Skateboarding Tricks: Shaun White loves huge backside airs and the backside 540, though he has a hard time getting the trick back after not using it for a while. To ESPN he explained, "I leave to go snowboarding and that is the hardest trick for me to get back, to relearn. I sit there for hours, pounding myself into the ramp until I have it."
Shaun White Career Highlights:
2003 - won gold in Superpipe and Slopestyle at Winter X Games
2004 - won gold in Slopestyle at Winter X Games
2005 - won snowboarding gold again in Slopestyle at Winter X Games, along with first place in the Nippon Open in Fukushima Japan, first place at the Rail Jam at The Session in Vail, CO and first place in the Snowboarding World Cup in Lake Placid, NY.
2005 - won skateboarding gold at Dew Tour in Louisville, KY
2005 - won skateboarding silver in Men's Vert at X Games 11
Shaun White Personal History: Shaun says his older brother Jesse was his main influence in skateboarding. Shaun grew up close to the Encinitas YMCA, which sported a vert ramp. Shaun kicked off his snowboarding career in 1999. Shaun joined the Tony Hawk Tour in 2001, then left and began added his skateboarding career to his snowboarding habit in 2003. Shaun White's family is super supportive of his choices, and the family remains close. Shaun also surfs and plays the guitar.
Shaun White Interesting Fact: Shaun had two heart surgeries before the age of 5.
Shaun White Quote: To ESPN Shaun explained how competing in skateboarding is harder than in snowboarding. "I think it's so much harder to go big and do the tricks. They're so much faster and so much less under control. I'm used to doing airs and stuff in snowboarding, but I almost think you go bigger on a vert ramp."

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Tony Hawk Basic Bio Information:

* Name: Tony Hawk
* Gender: Male
* Hometown: San Diego, California
* Date of Birth: May 12, 1968
* Family: 3 children - Riley, Spencer & Keegan
* Occupation: Launcher of the Boom Boom Huck Jam, Tony Hawk Foundation, Hawk clothing, Birdhouse, and featured in Tony Hawk video game series
* Began Skating: 1977
* First Sponsored: 1980
* Turned Pro: 1982
* Favored Discipline: Vert
* Stance: Goofy
* Tony Hawk is retired from competing

Tony Hawk Skateboarding Style and Strengths: Tony Hawk is harder on himself than anyone else ever could be. This drive is seen in Tony Hawk's skateboarding style - he is original and relentless. He has a monsterous list of skateboarding tricks invented, a huge stack of trophies and gold medals, and is easily the most recognisable name in skateboarding. Tony Hawk has never settled for anything but his best, and his best skateboarding has earned him the position at the top.
Tony Hawk Favorite / Signature Skateboarding Tricks: Tony Hawk's favorite trick is the 540, with his favorite variation being the Mute.
Tony Hawk Skateboarding Tricks Invented (partial list):

* Backside Varial
* Shove-It Rock'n Roll
* Fakie-to-fronside rock
* Ollie-To-Indy
* Fingerflip Backside Air
* Varial Gay Twist
* Gymnast Plant
* Frontside 540-rodeo Flip
* Lipslide Revert
* Airwalk (vert)
* Airwalk-To-Fakie
* Madonna
* Saran Wrap
* Stale Fish
* 720
* Backside Ollie-to-Tail
* Indy 540
* Frontside Gay Twist
* Nose Grind
* Backside Pop Shove-it
* 360 Frontside Rock n' Roll
* Frontside Cab
* Stale Fish 540
* Eggplant-To-Fakie
* 1/2 Elguerial
* Frontside Hurricane
* Cab Shove-It
* 360 Varial-to-Fakie
* Backside Rewind Grind
* Ollie 540

# Backside Ollie One-Foot
# Varial 540
# Frontside Blunt
# Cab-To-Tail
# 360 Varial Disaster
# Heelflip Varial Lien
# Frontside Noseslide
# Switch Indy Air
# Switch Backside Ollie
# 540 Board Varial
# Kickflip Mctwist
# Cab Lipslide
# Heelflip Varial Lien Revert
# Heelflip Slob Air
# Stale Fish 720
# Varial 720
# 900
# Frontside Stale Fish 540
# Shove-it-to-Backside Smith
# 360 Varial Mctwist
# Shove-it Fakie Feeble Grind
# 360 Shove-it Nose Grind
# 1/2 Cab Frontside Hurricane-to-Fakie
# Shove-it-to-Fakie Frontside 5-0
Tony Hawk Skateboarding Career Highlights:
1982 - Joined the legendary Bones Brigade team
1989 - Featured in Gleaming the Cube movie starring Christian Slater
1999 - Activision releases Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, the first in a long line of successful video games
1999 - X Games 4 - Tony Hawk lands the first 900
2003 - featured in the 300th episode of The Simpsons
2003 - wrote HAWK -- Occupation: skateboarder , a New York Times Best Seller
Life - Tony Hawk has entered about 103 skateboarding competitions. He has won 73, and taken second in 19
Tony Hawk Personal History: Tony Hawk was a troubled kid. He would push himself to do well in everything - in fact, to do better than he possibly could do, and then get angry with himself for failing. His parents had him psychologically evaluated, and discovered that he was "gifted". His older brother Steve gave him a skateboard, and Tony found something that he could focus on, and get good at. He would still push himself relentlessly, which helped propel him to be the world's most recognizable skateboarder today.
Tony Hawk Interesting Fact: Tony Hawk had his first film debut in the 1989 movie, Gleaming the Cube - the first feature film to use skateboarding as a major theme. The movie stars Christian Slater, with Tony playing Christian Slater's friend, Buddy. Mike McGill does all of Slater's skateboarding, Rodney Mullen is seen skateboarding during the opening credits, and Stacey Peralta did all of the film's skateboarding directing.
Tony Hawk Quote: From the Tony Hawk Website - "I'm pretty happy with the way things turned out. I mean, I never thought that I could make a career out of skateboarding