Marc Johnson (skateboarder)

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Marc Johnson (born Jan 6, 1977, Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is a professional skateboarder.

[edit] Life

He is sponsored by Gnar Side Militia, Chocolate Skateboards, Spitfire Wheels, Lakai, Matix, Thunder Trucks, Bones bearings, UtilityBoardSupply.com and Skateworks skateshop. His previous sponsors include Enjoi Skateboards, A-Team skateboards, Maple, Emerica, Direction wheels, Edward Sebastian clothing, Speed Demons and NC Boardshop.

He is known especially for his technical ability and for his philosophical take on skateboarding. As he says in the Chocolate video Hot Chocolate, "Skateboarding is just ideas put into action... If you can think of it, you can pretty much do it on a skateboard."

While he has since moved to southern California, he was a longtime resident of San Jose, CA. Marc is a member of the Tilt Mode Army crew and helped found the Enjoi board company, which despite being a high profile skate company sponsors almost exclusively riders from Silicon Valley. He then left Enjoi the company which he owned to skate for Chocolate, after joking that he left because "his boss wouldn't give him a pay raise". Marc was the recent recipient of Thrasher Magazine's 2007 Skater of the year award, and had the last part with three songs in Lakai Limited Footwear's recent video, Fully Flared.