ANDREW REYNOLDS

'Andrew Charles Schmidt' (born June 6, 1978 in Lakeland, Florida, USA), is a professional skateboarder who has been riding since the age of nine. He emerged onto the skateboarding scene in the early 1990s and won Thrasher magazine's ''Skater of the Year'' award in 1998. He is nicknamed 'Drew', 'The Boss', 'Spock', and 'Turtle Boy'. His signature trick is the frontside flip . He has performed this trick down the Wilshire fifteen set in "Baker 2G", Wallenberg Set, the LOVE gap in the Emerica Video ''This is Skateboarding'', over the Hollywood High 16 stair rail, and over a 17 stair set in ''Baker 3''. He is also known to dominate skate spots with memorable tricks such as full cab over the handrail in the beginning of his part in the Birdhouse Video "The End", and 360 nollie down the Carlsbad Gap.

Contents

Professional Career

Media involvement

Video games

Current sponsors

Select Videography

Personal life

References

External links

Professional Career

Andrew was first pro by Gordon & Smith Skateboards, and turned pro with Birdhouse Skateboards in 1995. He left Birdhouse and started Baker Skateboards in 2001^[1]. Reynolds is noted for his popular line of pro skate shoes on Emerica, a skate shoe brand: ''The Reynolds'', ''The Reynolds 2'', ''The Reynolds 3'', ''The AR Slim'', and ''The Boss''. Reynolds was a rider for KR3W apparel, but left the company in 2006 to start his own clothing brand called ''Altamont''. He also has a pro model truck from Independent Truck Company.

Media involvement

Andrew has appeared as himself in several videos and video games. He has also had some minor acting parts in films such as Cop and a 1/2.

Video games

Andrew's skating profile was displayed initially in the original Tony Hawk's Pro Skater video game. He has been subsequently been involved with Pro Skater 2, Pro Skater 3, Pro Skater 4, Tony Hawk's Underground, and Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. He will also be appearing in the upcoming video game Tony Hawk's Proving Ground.

Current sponsors

★ Baker Skateboards

★ Emerica Footwear

★ Independent Trucks

★ Altamont Apparel

★ Active Mailorder

★ Boost Mobile

★ Blackhole Griptape

★ SKF Bearings

★ Boost Mobile

Select Videography

★ TransWorld Anthology

★ TransWorld Feedback

★ The End (Birdhouse Skateboards)

★ This Is Skateboarding (Emerica)

★ Kids in Emerica

★ Baker Bootleg

★ Baker 2G (Baker Skateboards)

★ Baker 3 (Baker Skateboards)

Personal life

Andrew currently resides in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California with his wife Christianna, and daughter Stella^[2]. He's a vegetarian. He also suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder but says instead thinking it as a negative he uses it positively for clearing his mind before doing a trick as shown on his epiclylaterd.com part called
★ The Madness Episode
★ where he backside flips the Wallenberg Set.

References

1. http://www.twsbiz.com/twbiz/industrynews/article/0,21214,708170,00.html
2. Bio of Andrew Reynolds @ emericaskate.com

External links

★ Baker Skateboards

★ Blitz Distribution

★ Altamont Apparel

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★ Andrew Reynolds bio on Baker Skateboards

★ activemailorder.com

★ Andrew Reynolds on Epicly Later'd

★ MySpace Profile