Happy Birthday, Jim Gray! Gray is a professional skateboarder, was sponsored at the age of 13 (1977ish) by a little known company called Pro-Am/Pure Gold. Jim invented a few tricks such as the Jim Jam and the Gray Slide, all of which were named by Neil Blender. Jim spent most of his time skating Big O skatepark in Orange, and most happily remembers all his years of competing against the likes of Lance Mountain, Tony Hawk, Neil Blender, Billy Ruff, Alan Losi, Christian Hosoi, Duane Peters and many others. In the Mid 80’s Jim hooked up with a small company called Blockhead, and spent the last of his competitive day’s riding for them. Jim started Acme Skateboards in 1991 operated Abc Board Supply which manufactures decks for Acme, several other large skateboard brands, and distributors throughout the world. Abc was the worlds only 100% pro skater owned company in the world that makes its own decks on site. Jim is an advocate for public skateparks and he famous in Newport Beach for his pictures from all over town!
Posted on: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 21:03:00 +0000
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