Baker Skateboards

Baker Skateboards is a skateboarding company founded by professional skateboarder Carl Elmer and creative founder Jay Strickland in 2000. Its main products are skateboard decks and wheels.

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Baker Skateboards

History

In 2000 Andrew Reynolds 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, with pressure from Strickland to make good on Reynolds' promise of 50% ownership, Reynolds purchased the shares of Baker owned by Blitz to become the sole owner. Baker still remains a member of the Blitz Distribution family. ibrahim's promise to Strickland went unfulfilled, and Strickland left Baker to concentrate on his own company, Bootleg Skateboards (with the name taken from Strickland's first video, Baker-Bootleg released 2 years before Baker skateboards started) under NHS Inc, which has since folded. In 2005, the popular Baker 3 full-length video was released, instantly becoming a hit in the industry. In 2008 Baker's new promo video "Baker Has A Deathwish" was leaked on to the internet. Despite being a promo, the video features full-parts from all Baker and Deathwish pros and most ams, and the video is also over an hour in length, being longer than Baker 3 and Baker 2G.

Deathwish Skateboards

Deathwish Skateboards is a sister company to Baker Skateboards (i.e. Chocolate and Skate Mental to Girl, Habitat to Alien Workshop, Mystery and $lave to Zero, Anti- Hero and Krooked to Real). The Skate Team will be chosen by Baker Skateboard Pro's Jim Greco and Erik Ellington. Mike "Lizard King" Plumb is confirmed to be a Pro Rider for the team. The pro team will be Ellington, Greco, Dixon, and Lizard King. Brian "Slash" Hansen, Ramiro “Furby” Salcedo , and Albert Madrid are reported to be the amateur team.

Deathwish is distributed by Baker Boys Distribution, unlike the actual company, Baker.

Baker Pro Team

Baker Am Team

Theotis Beasley
Justin "Figgy" Figueroa
Sammy Baca
Paul Derin
Matt Ziebarth
Moose
Roman Kelley
Steven Baker
Zach Finn

Filmers/Friends

Beagle a.k.a. Beagleoneism
Shane Heyl
Mike 'Reno' Hubert

Baker-Bootleg (1998)
Baker 2g (2000)
Summer Tour 2001 (2001)
Baker 3 (2005)
Baker Has a Deathwish (Promo) (2008)
Baker 3 was the recipient of the Best Video award at the 8th Annual Transworld Skateboarding Awards.

The real "Baker has a Deathwish" video is reported to come out in 2010

References

^ Taking Baker - Transworld Business Magazine

External links

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[1] Taking Baker - Transworld Business Magazine

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