Sammy Baca.

Sin City.

Sammy rode for Pig when the company expanded from just wheels to wood as well. After deck production was ceased, he joined up with the Baker crew. At one point when he was still an am for Baker, he bailed on one of their tours to go on a tour of South America with Creature. I think Sammy's logic was that if Darren Navarrette asked you to go along for the ride, that you went. Andrew Reynolds handled this with a relaxed attitude and said that Sammy's first pro model with Baker would be his name in the Creature font. A little while later, Sammy got his board with his name on it. And it was in the Creature font.

Thrasher - May 2004 Volume 24 Number 5

Darrell Stanton #2.

It's tough to find a photo of Darrell where he isn't doing a switch backside 180 down a huge set of stairs or a switch heelflip. Actually, it's probably not, but whenever I'm flipping through the mags and see an ad with him, he's doing one of those tricks. And for as awesome as those tricks are, I do like to try for a little variety.

This was the first trick in Darrell's part in Real's Roll Forever video.

Thrasher - May 2004 Volume 24 Number 5

Peter Hewitt #7.

Self defeating prophecy.

Thrasher - June 2004 Volume 24 Number 6

Mike Rusczyk #2.

Just chilling.

Thrasher - February 2004 Volume 24 Number 2

Anthony Van Engelen #3.

Search and destroy.

A.V.E. goes over the rainbow.

The action photo is by Lance Dawes. The portrait is by Mike O'Meally.

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Alex Horn.

Cranston gets stale.

Alex rides for Creature these days and is a champ at doing tailblocks.

Not to be confused with the Red Cross or the band Redd Kross, Red Kross was a branch of the Black Label. It's now known as Emergency thanks to a couple of cease and desist letters from the life saving organization. It's basically John Lucero's nobel effort to give his old skate buddies pro models. The team has included legends like Neil Blender, Duane Peters, Jeff Grosso, Steve Olson and a few others. Currently the team consists of Eric Nash, Mike Smith, Riky Barnes, Jimmy The Greek and Lucero. There have occasionally been a few younger guys on the team as well.

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Andrew Allen.

There is a light that never goes out.

Andrew got his start with Legacy before switching to Anti-Hero and turning pro for them in 2009. He brings a large batch of more technical and switch tricks to the team. He's also a Smiths fan.

Legacy had a short run out of Dwindle Distribution. Matt Mumford was in charge of things. He had been riding for Mystery. The pro team included Pat Duffy and Justin Strubing. The ams included Allen and the late Shane Cross. After Legacy ended, Mumford went to the Black Label and joined back up with Jamie Thomas for Slave.

The picture is by Nick Scurich.

Thrasher - July 2004 Volume 24 Number 7