Wednesday, September 19, 2007

baker skateboards

Hi! My name is Melvin my blog is all about Baker Skateboards. Baker Skateboards is a skateboard company founded by professional skateboarder Andrew Reynolds and creative founder Jay Strickland in 2000. Bootleg Skateboards was the sister company for Baker Skateboards. It was formed by former Baker co-owner Jay Strickland. Jay Strickland co owned Baker Skateboards with Andrew Reynolds after Andrew left Birdhouse Skateboards. But Jay left Baker to form his own company, Bootleg Skateboards (with the name taken form Baker's first video, Baker-Bootleg). The company has since gone out of business. After getting its start in 2002 in just short 5 years Baker proved to be a heavyweight in the skateboarding community. With a team consisted of some of the biggest names in skateboarding. Such as Andrew Reynolds “The Boss”, Erik Ellington, Jim Greco, Terry Kennedy, Dustin Dollin, Jeff Lenoce, Kevin “Spanky” Long, Bryan Herman, Braydon Szafranski, Leo Romero and their Amateurs such as Sammy Baca, Antwuan Dixon, Theotis Beasly, Rammy Issa, Ramiro “Furby” Salcedo, Albert Madrid, Nick Merlino, Keith Samuels. They released videos are Baker 2g (2000), Baker summer tour 2001, and Baker 3. Baker 3 was the best video award at the 8th Annual Transworld Skateboarding Awards. It’s main products are skateboard decks and wheels.

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