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Team Riders

Name: Ian Harper
Home Town: Mammoth Lakes, CA
Currently Reside: Santa Rosa, CA
Years Skateboarding: Six

Favorite Foods: Beer.
Favorite Videos: I don't have any favorite videos but there are a couple of video parts that have really inspired me. The newest is Danny Way's video part in the DC video. This is probably the most insane skating that I have seen and it opened my mind to how many levels skating can take.
Favorite Skaters: Anyone who skates because they love it.
Favorite Bands: I mainly listen to hip hop and some I listen to are Krs One, Jedi Mind Tricks, Aesop Rock, Cage, Gang Starr, Mobb Deep, too many to list.
Parks You Ride: I grew up skating the Santa Rosa park and I still do. I love skating transition from park to pool to vert, the bigger the better for me. When I skate street I love finding big gaps and stairs to throw myself down. I love to skate anything, but some gnarly skatepark is where you would most likely find me.
Other Sponsors: Revolution Skateboard Shop
Hobbies: I have a lot of hobbies to keep myself busy when I am not skating or working. I have been doing art for most of my life and thats a big part of my life. In relation to my art I have been doing graffiti for the past few years and it is my second love. From my graffiti, my freind and I have started our own graffiti based T Shirt company "Teflon Clothing", so buy that stuff and support me. Aside from those, I restore classic cars and have been working on my 59 Bel Air for the past year.
Give a short sentence or two about yourself, i.e. where you came from where you want to go to skate someday, How you have seen the sport change. where you think the sport is going?: Since I have started skating I can say that skateboarding, at least around here, has started dying. I think it is because it got way to popular. For me skating has been something I do for myself only, I can go out and push my limits everyday if I want to. I love the fact that skating has made it able for me to find out who I am early in life. I will skate for as long as possible and I am not concerned about having sponsors or making a career out of it.

Name: Chad Lowe
Home Town: Sebastopol
Currently Reside: Canyon Lake
Years Riding: Ten

Favorite Foods: Taco Surfs Breakfast Burrito
Favorite Videos: Shakedown - Snowboard; Incomplete, Barleys Retrospective – Wakeboard
Favorite Riders: Greg Nelson, Scott Barley, Aaron Reed and Kyle Schmitt
Favorite Bands: Metallica, Lagwagon
Spots You Ride: Lake Pillsbury, Canyon Lake Back Water, Orlando
Other Sponsors: Liquid Force, Wakesports Unlimited
Hobbies: Surf, Snowboard, Skateboard, Fishing, Chillin out
I would just like to say Thank You to all of my Sponsors, my Mom and Dad, and Friends for all of their support. I have been to some incredible places and met some awesome people and I hope the ride keeps on going.

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