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Son of Steve Olson, [4] Alex's first memory of skateboarding was of Christian Hosoi doing airs on a Half-pipe while talking on a wireless phone, Olson was six years old at the time. [ 5 ] [ 1 ] Olson grew up in Santa Monica with his mother until the age of ten, when he moved to Malibu to live with his father, former-professional skateboarder ...
In a 1994 advertisement for the now-defunct Mad Circle skateboard deck company, an x-ray of Pappas' femur complete with metal plates and screws, is depicted with the tagline: "Tas Pappas, Mad Circle's Answer to the Bionic Man." [4] Pappas then appeared alongside Moses Itkonen, Edward Devera, Mike Cao, Justin Girard and Scott Johnston in the 1996 Mad Circle video Let The Horns Blow.
In the late 1990s, after the murder of his brother and the death of his mother, father and grandmother all in the same year, Adams began using heroin. [22] He was serving two-and-a-half years on drug charges in Hawaii during the production of Dogtown and Z-Boys and was released in 2002. The movie brought Adams back into the limelight and led to ...
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Sheckler's sponsors were the Etnies skate shoe company and Oakley, Inc., both of which made contact with Sheckler when he was around seven years old. [8] Etnies invited both Sheckler and his brother Shane to the company's California headquarters, where he was given his first pair of Etnies shoes; however, his official relationship with the brand ended in 1998.
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In 2022 he announced his intention to try to qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics representing his father's homeland of Great Britain, despite the fact that he would be 51 years old at the start of the park skateboard event at the Games. [6] He secured qualification in June 2024 making him the oldest Olympic skateboarder in history. [7]
Mullen began skateboarding at the age of ten, on New Year's Day of 1977, after a neighborhood friend introduced him to a skateboard. He promised his strict father that he would cease skateboarding the first time he became seriously injured: My dad wouldn't let me have a skateboard.