Umberto Skinner's Page

Birthday

March 13, 1981

About Me

A Scotsman living in New Zealand....Brought up in Aberdeen, Scotland and heavily influenced by John Rattray and other elder Aberdeen skaters. I went to boarding school and so was away a lot. At 16 I moved with my family from Aberdeen on the North East Coast of Scotland to Lincoln, Lincolnshire in the heart of the East Midlands of England. Having the last name "Skinner" and skating all day everyday people ended up knowing quite quickly who I was and it was from around 98 when I was entered in a Pro contest that was turned into jam format styled fun skate contest..The prize money was split into 4 and awarded to the four best tricks in the 25 minute session, I won one of them by doing a 360 flip nose slide fakie on the hip block and ended up having the whole thing documented in Sidewalk magazine. Best day of my life! Following that did well in a few contests and continued getting coverage which lead to me getting a call from ICON skateboards and a trip to Barcelona, Spain. Only a short time followed and I was being asked at the drop of a hat by my mother (a New Zealander) if I wanted to come back to NZ with her and see if i'd like to live there after a year of trialing out the lifestyle, I decided to make the move and 6 years later i'm living happily in New Zealand, riding for Boom Skateboards, Picture Wheels, es Footwear, Orion Trucks, RDS Clothing, Nixon Watches, Red Bull, Mata Beer, SSS Skate Shop.

Interests

Love, Life and Happiness with a great deal of sport and skateboarding.

Current Setup

Ol'deuce Boom "Skinner" 8", Orion SP1's, Picture Wheels, Bones Swiss.

Current Shoes

es Justin Eldridge lo's

Favorite Skater(s)

John Rattray, Tom Penny, Geoff Rowley, Bastien Salabanzi, Creager, Lutzka, Puig, Lem, Lee Ralph, Mark Gonzales, Curtiss Osbourne, Gershon, Getz, Eastern Exposure Crew, Kalis, Way, McKay, Reynolds, Thomas, Bachinsky, Macentire, PRodriguez, T.Fynn, Durrant, Flo, Carolino, T.Locke, Farhad, Vercoe, Ataria, Whaanga, Lister, B.Johnson, Kareem,

Favorite Skate Vid(s)

Eastern Exposure
Blind, 101, World - Trilogy.
Transworld- The Reason, In Bloom, Anthology, Feedback, First Love, Cinematography.
PNC/Blueprint - Waiting For The World.
Flip - Extremely Sorry!
Lordz - They Don't Give a Fuck About Us.
Shorty's - Fulfill The Dream.
PJ's - Wonderfull Horrible Life.

Favorite Movies

Most of them

Favorite Music

Anthing with a dope beat.

Website

http://www.facebook.com/uskinner