Flip skateboards
| Flip skateboards | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1991 |
| Seat | Huntington Beach , California |
| management | Ian Deacon Jeremy Fox Geoff Rowley |
| Branch | Skateboards , clothing |
| Website | http://flipskateboards.com/ |
Flip Skateboards is a company that manufactures skateboards and related clothing and accessories.
company
Flip Skateboards was founded in Great Britain in 1991 as a merger of the two companies Death Box Skateboards and Bash Skateboards . In addition to Jeremy Fox and Ian Deacon, the British professional skateboarder Geoff Rowley was also involved . A little later, Tom Penny and Rune Glifberg also joined the team.
In 1994 the company moved to Huntington Beach in the US state of California to influence the professional scene there. Penny and Glifberg also took the opportunity to move to the United States, and established American scene professionals such as Ali Boulala and Bob Burnquist also joined the company .
The company's motto is HKD ( hate, kill, destroy ). The team's skateboard graphics, which regularly show motifs such as skulls or iron crosses , for example as an i- dot in the word Flip, are based on this saying . For every skater under contract with Flip Skateboards, the company also has a so-called pro deck which is illustrated with the name of the respective athlete.
Sponsorship
Flip Skateboards sponsors a diverse team of popular skateboarding professionals including Geoff Rowley , Luan Oliviera, David Gonzalez, Tom Penny , Arto Saari , Bob Burnquist and Rune Glifberg . So far, five professionals from the flip-skate team have been voted Skater of the Year ( SOTY ) by Thrasher magazine : Bob Burnquist (1997; although he was still sponsored by Anti-Hero at the time ), Geoff Rowley (2000), Arto Saari (2001 ), Mark Appleyard (2003) and David González (2012).
team
The current team consists of the following drivers:
Per
- Bob Burnquist
- Glifberg rune
- Lance Mountain
- Tom Penny
- Geoff Rowley
- Ali Boulala
- Luan de Oliveira
- David González
- Arto Saari
- Louie Lopez
- Curren Caples
- Alec Majerus
- Matt Berger
- Ben Nordberg
amateur
- Oscar Meza
- Ryder Lawson
Videos
So far, the flip skate team has produced three videos with a running time of thirty to fifty minutes each.
- 2002: Sorry
- 2003: Really Sorry
- 2009: Extremely Sorry
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Flip Skateboard Decks from Skatedeluxe
- ↑ Thrasher - Skater Of The Year (SOTY) - winners
- ↑ team . In: Flip Skateboards . Flip skateboards. Retrieved September 21, 2013.