Baker Skateboards
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Baker Skateboards is a skateboarding company founded by professional skateboarder Andrew Reynolds in 2001. It's main products are skateboards and wheels, along with clothing and accessories.
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[edit] History
Reynolds was a professional skateboarder for Birdhouse Skateboards. In 2001 he left Birdhouse feeling he didn't fit in with their image and started Baker with Jay Strickland, along with Blitz Distribution as an investment partner (Blitz is a company formed by Birdhouse founders Tony Hawk and Per Welinder to distribute their own products)..[1] In February 2002, Reynolds purchased the shares of Baker owned by Blitz to become the sole owner. Baker still remains a member of the Blitz Distribution family. In that same year, Strickland left Baker to start his own company, Bootleg Skateboards with NHS Inc, which has since folded. Baker's image became notorious in the skateboarding community for their approach to over-the-top partying and emphasizing more potent tricks in videos, rather than having long, drawn-out parts filled with lines.
[edit] Team
- Andrew Reynolds
- Jim Greco
- Dustin Dollin
- Erik Ellington
- Jeff Lenoce
- Kevin "Spanky" Long
- Bryan Herman
- Terry Kennedy
- Braydon Szafranski
- Leo Romero
- Antwuan Dixon
- Ryan Argyle
- Nate Phar
[edit] Videos
Baker has released three videos.
- Baker Bootleg
- Baker 2G
- Baker 3 (2005)
Baker 3 was the recipient of the Best Video award at the 8th Annual Transworld Skateboarding Awards.
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