Torey Pudwill

Torey Pudwill

Personal information
Birth name	Torey Jamison Pudwill
Born	May 2, 1990 (age 24) Simi Valley, California, U.S.
Height	5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m)
Weight	135 pounds (61 kg)
Sport
Country	United States
Sport	Skateboarding
Medal record[hide] Summer X Games Representing  United States Bronze 2013 Brasil Street

Professional skateboarding

Following the demise of Pudwill's first board sponsor Shorty's, Pudwill was invited to join the Almost team by company co-owner Daewon Song during the pair's time as DVS team riders (as of March 2013, Pudwill and Song are DVS teammates). Pudwill accepted Song's offer and achieved professional status in 2008 during his tenure at Almost. Following the announcement that Pudwill had decided to join the Plan B team, Schulte was announced as a new Almost rider and a short video part accompanied the announcement.

An official announcement was released in March 2010, stating that Pudwill had joined the Plan B Skateboards team, alongside skateboarders such as Danny Way, Colin McKay, Ryan Sheckler, PJ Ladd and Paul Rodriguez. A welcome video that was published on the Internet also accompanied the announcement.

On January 4, 2012, a teaser video was released, featuring Pudwill performing an upward tailslide-to-kick flip-out on a ledge, stating that the Plan B video is due for release in summer of 2013. The video is the first in a series of teasers that will be released during the period leading up to the video release date.

In October 2012, the DVS Shoe Company published a press release stating that Pudwill had signed a three-year contract. The press release revealed that the two signature shoes that Pudwill has released with the company have been among the brand's most popular. As of the press release date, Pudwill's third shoe model was in the process of being designed. Pudwill explained in a May 2013 interview:

I’ve been with DVS for a long time and it’s definitely part of my roots in skateboarding. DVS is a big part of me and we have a solid team and family there. We’re all really close and as a team we’re all really hyped on each other. I recently re-signed with them and we’re rebuilding with a solid crew especially with guys like Daewon and Chico. We’re all working tough towards new goals for the brand. It’s shoes and skateboarding, man. It’s sick.

Sponsors

As of August 2012, Pudwill's sponsors are Plan B Skateboards, DVS Shoes, Skatelab, Diamond Supply Co, Andale Bearings, Venture Trucks, Primitive, Plan B Wheels, CCS, Grizzly Grip, DaKine, Red Bull, andNixon.

Pudwill's former sponsors are Shorty's, Alien Workshop (flow), Chocolate (flow), Force Trucks, Almost, and Matix.

source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torey_Pudwill

Nyjah Huston

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Personal information
Full name	Nyjah Imani Huston
Born	November 30, 1994 (age 19) Davis, California, United States (U.S.)
Height	5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m)
Weight	145 pounds (66 kg)[1]
Sport
Country	United States
Sport	Skateboarding
Medal record Summer X Games Representing  United States Gold 2014 Austin Street Gold 2013 Los Angeles Street Gold 2013 Barcelona Street Gold 2013 Brasil Street Gold 2011 Los Angeles Street Silver 2010 Los Angeles Street Silver 2009 Los Angeles Street Bronze 2012 Los Angeles Street

Nyjah Imani Huston (born November 30, 1994) is an American professional Skateboarder and in August 2012 was the overall champion at the Street League Skateboarding (SLS) competition series. As of May 19, 2013, Huston has won more prize money than any other skateboarder in history. In 2014, Huston ranked #5 on FoxWeekly's 'Top 15 Most Influential Skateboarders of All-Time'.

Professional skateboarding

Huston first garnered attention when he signed a sponsorship deal with the Element company and joined the skateboard team. During his debut era with the company, Huston appeared in numerous Element video productions, such as both volumes of the Elementality series, and competed in high-profile contests, such as the Dew tour and the Vans Downtown Showdown. However, Huston eventually launched his own skateboard deck company "I&I" in 2009 after he parted ways with Element in 2008; Huston was an amateur skateboarder at the time of his departure and always skating with Arif Shafiq.

I&I was a short-lived company and operated for approximately two years with a team that consisted of Huston, Richard Jefferson, and Anthony Williams. During the period of the company's existence, a number of magazine advertisements were published and an online promotional video that featured the three team members was released. The primary aesthetic influence of the brand was Rastafarinism and the I&I logo incorporated the pan-African colors of red, yellow, and green.

Following the closure of I&I, Huston returned to Element and released a solo video production entitled Rise & Shine in 2011—the video was available for purchase on the iTunes website and later received the "Best Video Part" award from the Transworld SKATEboarding magazine. During this stage of Huston's career, the skateboarder also joined the DC Shoes company as a team rider, following a significant period of time without a shoe sponsor—an unusual occurrence for a professional skateboarder with the degree of exposure that Huston had attracted. In response to the DC Shoes announcement, Huston explained that "I think it was all a build up of things over the past year. DC has always been my top choice for a shoe sponsor but I think it took this past year for them to see what I've accomplished and how I did in the contests and my video part and all that for it to finally come through."

Following Huston's decision to skateboard for DC Shoes, other DC team riders expressed their perspectives in online promotional material produced by the shoe company. Long-term DC team rider Josh Kalis stated in the introductory video for Huston (also featuring Mike Mo Capaldi), "And then there's this other dude out there, literally buying shoes from a skate shop. He could get shoes from anybody that he wanted, but he was buying DCs." Capaldi expressed his opinion on Huston in the same video, stating his belief that Huston is "probably the best skateboarder that I've ever seen—he does everything in like two tries."

After Huston's gold medal victory at the 2013 X Games Street League contest in Barcelona, Spain in mid-May, Transworld SKATEboarding magazine announced that no other skateboarder has won a greater amount of prize money. On the final night of May 2013, the DC Shoes Co. held a launch event for the first signature model skate shoe of Huston's career at the Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California, U.S., with Pete Rock in the role of DJ. The model is named the "Nyjah Huston Signature Shoe" and the promotional advertisement features Huston executing a trick at set of stairs at Hollywood High School in Los Angeles, U.S.

An announcement on June 25, 2013 revealed that due to a rib injury, Huston was unable to compete in the Street League contest at the Munich X Games in late June 2013. Huston’s mother Kelle Huston reported that her son "bruised and scraped the right side of his torso" in a skateboarding accident, but an article from the Street League website stated that Huston would be fit to compete in the next contest round in July 2013 in Portland, Oregon, U.S.

Huston was added to the competition lineup for the 2013 Kimberley Diamond Cup in South Africa, held from September 28 to 29. During practice, Huston was filmed performing a 270-degree "kickflip lipslide" on a rail, a trick that had never been filmed in the history of skateboarding prior to that occasion. Huston won the Kimberley Diamond Cup and the one million rand cash prize.

Sponsorship

As of July 2013, Huston is sponsored by Element, Silver, FKD, Diamond Supply Co., Ricta, MOB, DC Shoes, Monster Energy, Stance, Beats by Dr. Dre,^[7] SLS, Asphalt Yacht Club (AYC) and CCS.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyjah_Huston