Andrew Reynolds

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Andrew Reynolds (born June 6, 1978 in Lakeland, Florida, USA), is a professional skateboarder who has been riding since the age of nine. He emerged onto the skateboarding scene in the early 1990s and won Thrasher magazine's Skater of the Year award in 1998. He is nicknamed Drew, The Boss, Spock, and Turtle Boy. His signature trick is the frontside flip (or frontside 180 kickflip). He has performed this trick down the Wilshire sixteen set in "Baker 2G", Wallenburg set, the LOVE gap in the Emerica VideoThis is Skateboarding down the Hollywood High 16 stair rail, and over a 17 stair set in Baker 3 also is known to shutdown skate spots with memorial tricks such as full cab over the handrail in the beginning of his part in the Birdhouse Video "The End", Full cab and 360 Nollie down the Carlsbad Gap in many of his videos.

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[edit] Professional career

Andrew was first sponsored by Gordon & Smith Skateboards, and turned pro with Birdhouse Skateboards in 1995. He left Birdhouse and started Baker Skateboards in 2001[1]. Reynolds is noted for his popular line of pro skate shoes on Emerica: the Reynolds, the Reynolds 2, the Reynolds 3, and The Boss. Reynolds was a longtime rider for KR3W apparel, but left the company in 2006 to start his own clothing brand called Altamont.

[edit] Baker Team

Andrew Reynolds is the owner and founder of Baker Skateboards. The team currently consists of Jim Greco, Erik Ellington, Dustin Dollin, Jeff Lenoce, Braydon Szfranski Bryan Herman, Kevin "Spanky" Long, Terry Kennedy, Leo Romero and Antwuan Dixon. Baker is a part of the Blitz Distribution family.

[edit] Skateboarding videos

Andrew has appeared in numerous skateboard videos, including TransWorld Skateboarding's Anthology and Feedback, Birdhouse's The End, Emerica's This is Skateboarding and Kids In Emerica, and in all three Baker videos: Baker Bootleg, Baker 2G and Baker 3.

[edit] Media involvement

Andrew has appeared as himself in several videos and video games. He has also had some minor acting parts in films such as Cop and a Half.

[edit] Video games

Andrew's skating profile was displayed initially in the original Tony Hawk's Pro Skater video game. He has been subsequently been involved with Pro Skater 2, Pro Skater 3, Pro Skater 4, Tony Hawk's Underground, Tony Hawk's American Wasteland and Project 8.

[edit] Current sponsors

[edit] Personal life

Andrew currently resides in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California with his wife Christianna, and daughter Stella[2].

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.twsbiz.com/twbiz/industrynews/article/0,21214,708170,00.html
  2. ^ Bio of Andrew Reynolds @ emericaskate.com

[edit] External links

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