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Mike Vallely

Mike Vallely

Country flag United States

Age: 53

Born: Long Beach

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Lives in: United States

Gender: Male

Nationality: American

AKA: "Mike V"

Height: 1.77 m (5.81 f)

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Stance: Regular

Disciplines: Street

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BLOOM: IOWA | CARIUMA VISITS THE LARGEST SKATEPARK IN AMERICA The Berrics traveled with Cariuma all over America to create a new series that breaks the mold for skate edits, BLOOM. Between battling the rain and hitting the streets, the team meets up with icon Mike Vallely and ends up in the center of the largest skatepark in America. Featuring Le’Andre Sanders, Tyler Peterson, Cody Cepeda, Becker Dunn, Timothy Johnson, Levi Löeffelberger and Lucas DeLao, if there’s one brand in bloom, it’s Cariuma. #Skateboarding #Berrics #TheBerrics #SkateboardingIsFun

11/15/2022   |   video icon

Learn 10 Unusual Skateboard Tricks With Madars Apse Madars Apse is a bit of a magician when it comes to trying new tricks. He’s crazy talented to begin with—first tries come pretty naturally—but the guy has a knack for adapting to all sorts of styles of skating and working through new tricks with ease. While filming for Skate Tales season 2, Madars picked up a few new ones from characters like freestyle legend Kilian Martin, Brazilian phenom Felipe Nunes, the creative madmen from Fancy Lad, and street skating legend Mike Valley.

9/4/2022   |   video icon

Meet One Of The Pioneers Of Street Skateboarding Mike Vallely | SKATE TALES S2 Ep 6 In truth, we probably haven’t got enough bandwidth to do the twists and turns of Mike Vallely’s skateboarding life story justice- so let us perhaps instead consider some of the many roles he has played in order to provide some context as to what makes him such an enduring enigma. There are worse places to start charting his cultural ascent within skateboarding than his breakout section from Powell Peralta’s game-changing 1988 video release Public Domain. Skateboarding was changing daily at that point with the genesis of street skating and Mike V’s East Coast aesthetic and floppy- wristed silhouette caught the attention of an entire skateboarding world that had realised that there was more to this culture than hero-worshipping the MTV- generation of sleeveless T-shirted Californian vert professionals who were appearing more dated and anachronistic by the day. His double-kick Barnyard board for World Industries effectively signalled a new era in skateboarding trick development which Salman Agah would later pioneer and effectively treble the skateboarding trick lexicon by adding nollie and switchstance possibilities to every trick hitherto utilising the ollie alone. Despite being on a tangent to what the skateboarding mainstream was doing, Vallely was still an enticing prospect to sponsors precisely because he has always had his own constituency within skateboarding: 120,000 Mexicans turned out to watch him put on a one-man skate demo in 2008. Accordingly, he would ride for brands like Powell, Black Label and Element Skateboards when each of those brands were at the peak of their powers before finally starting his own Street Plant label in 2015 while somehow finding time along the way to front the re-formed punk band Black Flag and have stints in both semi- professional wrestling and ice hockey. Now settled with his family in Des Moines, Iowa he has enjoyed a 35-year pro skating career on his own terms. There are no other Mike Vallely’s. Madars Apse hits the streets with a true original to learn about Street Plant, punk rock and the journey of a street scoundrel from New Jersey.

7/4/2022   |   video icon
 
 

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