Top 10 Most Influential Skateboarder

Top 10 Most Influential Skateboarder

5. Paul Rodriguez Jr.


*2008 champion title, at Baltimore Stop
*silver in Tampa Pro in 2009, winning the 2008 Maloof Cup
*back to back championship status in the GvR contest of 2004 and 2005
*winner of the Slam City Jam in 2005
*first place in the eS game of SKATE in 2003.
*silver medal in the X Games 2008
*winning a bronze medal in the 2003 the X Games
*back to back gold medals win in the 2004 and 2005 X Games
*first skateboarder and Mexican American sponsored by Nike (he now has his own line of shoe he advertises and designed)
*2005 FTC award for Best Trick
*2002 Trans World Skateboarding Rookie of the Year
*has a signature stance called “goofy foot” instead of regular; this means that when he skates his left foot is kept in back toward the tail of the board instead of in the front like in a regular stance.



4. Shaun White


White’s skateboard career took place during the same time he was rising through the snowboard ranks. White quickly drew the eyes of many in the skateboarder scene including professional skateboarder Tony Hawk. At this point Hawk befriended the nine-year-old White at a local skatepark and mentored him, helping him turn pro in skateboarding at the age of 17. White has gone on to win many titles on his skateboard, most notably winning the overall title of Action Sports Tour Champion, as well as being the first person to compete in and win both the Summer and Winter X Games in two different sports.

Snowboarding and Skateboarding Achievement:

*In 2003 White was the first to compete and medal in both the Summer and Winter X Games in two different sports.
*White is the first snowboarder ever to land back to back double corks, at the Red Bull superpipe.
*He remains the only skater to land the body varial frontside 540 (The Armadillo).[10]
*He was the first to land a Cab 7 Melon Grab in vert skateboarding.
*He is the first snowboarder to win back-to-back gold medals in the Winter X-Games Superpipe.
*He is the first (and only) person to win both a Summer and Winter Dew Cup.[11]
*White was the first to “three-peat” in SuperPipe at the Winter X Games.
*Shaun White holds the record for the highest score in the men’s halfpipe at the Winter Olympics. In 2006, his 46.8 points bested Ross Powers’ previous record of 46.1 from 2002. In 2010, during the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he improved his own record with 48.4 points in his final run.




3. Bob Burnquist


Burnquist’s biggest success to date came at the vert contest at the 2001 X-Games. Before his final run (the last run of the event) he was sitting in second place behind two-time defending champion Bucky Lasek. Burnquist produced a flawless run, including multiple tricks that had never been seen before and, as a result, were unnamed.

Burnquist’s specialty is switch stance skateboarding, also known as “goofy style”.

Burnquist is the only skater to go over a loop ramp with a gap in it (OP King Of Skate). Not only was the loop gapped, but Burnquist also did the gap switch.

He is also the first skater to go through a loop while riding switch stance, and the first to go all the way around a full pipe just by pumping up to speed inside it.

In 2000, Burnquist won the X-Games’ best trick contest, with his famous fakie 5-0 with a fakie Kickflip off of the grind bar. He created a trick called “Burntwist”

Burnquist completed a BASE jump after attempting a 50-50 into the Grand Canyon. The first attempt nearly cost Burnquist his life after he missed the rail and fell out of control before regaining himself and successfully deploying his parachute.



2. Rodney Mullen


John Rodney Mullen is known for inventing many tricks, here is a list:
*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



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