The most influential and talented skateboarders who shaped the sport and its culture from the 1970s to today.
Stacy Peralta's contributions as both a competitive pioneer of the Dogtown and Z-Boys era and as a filmmaker who documented skateboarding's cultural history through Dogtown and Z-Boys and Bones Brigade make him uniquely important to the sport's development and cultural legitimacy.
Tony Hawk is skateboarding's most recognizable global ambassador — the first human to land a 900 (two and a half aerial rotations) at the 1999 X Games and the inspiration for a video game franchise that introduced skateboarding to hundreds of millions of people worldwide. His career embodied skateboarding's mainstream breakthrough.
Mark Gonzales — the Gonz — invented handrail skating, pioneered street skating as an art form, and influenced skateboarding's visual culture as deeply as its technique through his distinctive artwork and irreverent personality. His Blind Skateboards video parts in the late 1980s fundamentally changed what skateboarding could express.
Brazilian Leticia Bufoni's six X Games gold medals make her the most decorated women's street skater in history, combining technical consistency with competitive resilience that has sustained her at the top of women's professional skateboarding for over a decade.
Eric Koston's fluid, precise style and exceptional technical skill across both street and skatepark terrain made him the most respected professional street skater of the late 1990s-2000s. His Girl Skateboards career parts and collaboration with Nike SB elevated both brands to new heights.
Jay Adams was the most naturally gifted skater of the Dogtown and Z-Boys generation whose aggressive, flowing style while pool skating in 1970s Santa Monica created the visual vocabulary of modern skateboarding. Despite a troubled personal life, his influence on skateboarding's aesthetic direction was profound and lasting.
Rodney Mullen invented the flatground ollie, the kickflip, the heelflip, and dozens of other fundamental tricks that form the foundation of modern street skating — he is arguably skateboarding's most influential inventor ever. Every contemporary skater performs tricks that trace their lineage directly to Mullen's freestyle innovations.
Japan's Yuto Horigome won the first-ever Olympic skateboarding gold medal at Tokyo 2020 with a run of controlled power and flawless execution that silenced any doubt about competitive skateboarding's legitimacy as an Olympic discipline. His technical precision represents skateboarding's new generation at its finest.
Brazilian Bob Burnquist's mastery of the mega-ramp — skating off a 75-foot gap and performing tricks on a quarter pipe the size of a building — introduced extreme skateboarding to a new scale. His seven X Games gold medals and switch-stance brilliance made him the most internationally celebrated non-American skater.
Finnish-American Lizzie Armanto became the first woman to complete Tony Hawk's 900-degree loop at his California skate park and her consistent dominance of women's vert skating makes her the most technically accomplished female vert skater in history. Her Thrasher video parts are technically extraordinary.
Steve Caballero's caballerial trick — a blindside 360 aerial named after him — and his decades of professional skating from the Bones Brigade era to the present make him one of skateboarding's most enduring figures. His combination of vert and street skill was remarkably rare.
Nyjah Huston's dominance of Street League Skateboarding competitions — more wins than any other skater in SLS history — and his extraordinary technical street skating skills have made him the most decorated competitive street skater of his generation, also winning Olympic medals at the first skateboarding Olympic event in Tokyo 2020.
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