Baker Skateboards
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Baker Skateboards is a skateboarding company founded by professional skateboarder Andrew Reynolds and creative founder Jay Strickland in 2000. Its main products are skateboard decks, clothing, and wheels.
History
In 2000 Andrew Reynolds left Birdhouse Skateboards and started Baker Skateboards with Jay Strickland, along with Blitz Distribution as an investment partner to distribute their own products[1]). In February 2002, with pressure from Strickland to make good on Reynolds' promise of 50% ownership, Reynolds purchased the shares of Baker owned by Blitz to become the sole owner. Reynolds' promise to Strickland went unfulfilled, and Strickland left Baker to concentrate on his own company, Bootleg Skateboards (with the name taken from Strickland's first video, Baker-Bootleg released 2 years before Baker skateboards started) under NHS Inc., which has since folded.
Baker was under Blitz Distribution but in 2007, Reynolds (along with fellow pro skateboarder Jim Greco) started up the Baker Boys Distribution which dos not houses four companies owned by past and current Baker riders/associates. These companies are Shake Junt (created by Shane Heyl) Brigada Sunglasses (created by Andrew Reynolds), Deathwish Skateboards (created and owned by Erik Ellington and Jim Greco) and Heroin skateboards (a British Board company[2]
Baker has since changed distribution labels from Blitz to Baker Boys. [3]
Pros
- Andrew Reynolds
- Braydon Szafranski
- Kevin "Spanky" Long
- Bryan Herman
- Terry Kennedy
- Dustin Dollin
- Jeff Lenoce
- Justin "Figgy" Figueroa
- Don "The Nuge" Nguyen
- Sammy Baca
- Theotis Beasley
- Shane Heyl
Filmers/Friends
- Beagle One-ISM
- Brian H.
- NeckFace
- Christian "Fluffy" Watson
- Reno
- Tech Lock Jones
- Atiba
Videos
- Baker Bootleg (1998)
- Baker 2G (2000)
- Summer Tour 2001 (2002)
- Baker 3 (2005)
- Baker Has a Deathwish (2008)
- Baker Has a Deathwish Summer Tour Video (2009)
- Chickenbonenowison (2010)
References
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