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Erik was born in Anchorage, Alaska and moved around a few times before settling in Phoenix, Arizona with his mom. He started skateboarding after seeing Back To The Future while still living in Alaska. His influences in the early days included Mike Carroll, Sal Barbier, Rick Howard, and the cast of Video Days. He rode for Balance, a company he did with Scott Copalman and Aaron Pearcy in Arizona. Later he moved to California and Jamie Thomas added him and Scott to the Zero team. Erik would turn pro for Zero, temporarily leave for Baker before returning to Zero, and finally split permanently for Baker in the early 2000s. He started Deathwish with Jim Greco in 2008 as a sister company to Baker. For footwear, Erik stayed on Emerica until 2006 when Supra began. He's still rolling today and throwing himself down big gaps, twenty years after the Thrill Of It All.
For the information: Transworld - April 2011 Volume 29 Number 4
Skateboarder - July 2004 Volume 13 Number 11
2 comments:
I saw an entire endcap of Supra socks at a Meijer store, which is a grocery/department store (kinda like those super Wal-Marts). Weird, wild times still occurring for skateboarding.
I didn't realize how big of deal Supra was until I was reading their Wikipedia page. I sort of forgot how their hightops were popular among sneaker heads.
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