| Gary Holl.
Professional Skateboarder
Sponsors: SK8KINGS, etnies, Freestyle Watches and Eyewear, Khiro, PleasureTool bearings, ProDesigned Safety Equipment, Giro/BELL Helmets, Go Pro Hero Cameras, PowerBar |
Gary began skateboarding in 1975 and has been riding for 33 years! In the early years everyone including Gary, was riding it all... banks, freestyle, slalom and pools. In the late 70s until 1984 Gary focused on Freestyle and discovered many tricks, some that others were later credited with. Continuing to skate in the mid 80-90s he was riding skate parks, street-style, pools and ditches. In 2001 he renewed his enthusiasm for slalom racing and began competing on the National level resulting in several podium finishes and several appearances on TV including on FUEL and Blue Torch TV. In early 2004 with renewed enthusiasm Gary re-entered freestyle skateboarding and was crowned the State Champion in 2005 and in 2007 he was crowned the Master World Champion in Freestyle skateboarding and became the World 360 Champion. Gary is one of the best all-around skateboarders today and is proud of his philosophy on skateboarding and it is real simple, HAVE FUN!
CURRENT SPONSORS include:
SK8KINGS (Manufacturer of the Gary Holl Pro freestyle model: SK8KINGS.com)(contract)
Etnies (flow)
PowerBar (Contract-Team Elite)
Khiro (Flow)
FREESTYLE Watches (contract/Flow)
FREESTYLE Eyewear (contract/Flow)
PleasureTool Bearings (flow)
ProDesigned Safety Equipment (flow)
GoPro Hero Cameras (Flow)
Giro/Bell Helmets (flow)
RECENT CONTEST RESULTS:
1st- ISSA World Record Attempts, Calif., 25-50-100 Cone Slalom, September 2008: Gary set the Masters 25 cone World Record.
1st- Freestyle World Championship, Masters. Vancouver Canada, July 2007
1st-360 Spin Off, World Championship Vancouver Canada, July 2007
1st - Santa Barbara Ocean Festival, WFSA, CA State Champion 2005
1st - NorCal Flatland Championship 2005
1st - NorCal 360 contest 2005
2nd - Game of SKATE NorCal Championship 2005
1st - WFSA Freestyle 2004 at SLO
1st - WFSA Game of SKATE 2004 at SLO
1st - WFSA 360 contest at SLO 2004
RECENT MEDIA COVERAGE:
- Concrete Wave Magazine Vol 8 #2, has coverage of the Editors trip to California, in the story Gary is mentioned and there are three separate photos of Gary.
- Concrete Wave Magazine Vol 7 #5 Spring 09, has coverage of gary in the Freestyle Report along with a photo of Gary, Also CW does a review on Gary’s SK8KINGS Pro Model.
- Concrete Wave Magazine, 2009 Buyers Guide, Shows Gary’s Deck in both color-ways.
- Concrete Wave Magazine, Vol7 #3, San Francisco Skate Jam coverage. Photo and name.
- Concrete Wave Magazine, Vol7 #1, Summer 08, Gary’s deck ad for SK8KINGS, Coverage for Board Rescue, and coverage in a story about collecting skateboard decks.
- Concrete Wave Magazine, 2008 Buyers Guide, Gary’s SK8KINGS deck in Mag.
- Skate and Annoy coverage of Santa Cruz skate class, March 2008
- Concrete Wave Magazine,Vol.6#4,Gary in SK8KINGS ad.
- Concrete Wave,Vol 6 #3, World Freestyle Championship Coverage listing Gary
- Santa Cruz Parks & Rec Skatepark Class Nov 3, 2007
- Fuel TV runs Show Me your ID commercial featuring Gary Holl (Aug 2007)
- Skatedaily.net Posted story and results of the World Championship in Vancouver (Aug 2007)
- PleasureTool Bearing ad in Concrete Wave Vol 5#5 Spring 2007
- Silverfish poll on Who is/was the Greatest freestyle skateboarder (Feb 2007)...Gary wins!
- Santa Cruz Parks & Rec Slalom Class Sept 30, 2006
- 2006 ASR Demo, September 10, 2006
- Concrete Wave, Vol 4, #4 Winter 2005 (on shelves April 2006), two page interview with full color photos, Interview can be viewed here or here.
- Silverfish Longboarding’s recent article on the SK8KINGS in store autograph session and demo can be viewed here.
- Skatedaily.net Gary was listed as the #1 “talented Skateboarders you may never have heard of” as part of SD Top Three.
- Gary’s online web forum is located here.
- WFSA Interview 2004 here.
Gary's full bio, video's, blogs, podcasts and more are located at http://web.mac.com/garyholl
Gary's forum is located on the SK8KING.com forum pages.
Gary is currently looking for Clothing sponsors.