SHANE O'NEILL

Shane O'Neill is awesome, he is an extremely technical Australian skateboarder that is holding his own with some amazing skaters and is good friends with Paul Rodriguez. This is one amazing mag minute and some amazing sponsors to back him up. He has stayed at Paul Rodriguez's Mountain Dew skate park and has filmed a video part their which is on the related videos section of the link below. He landed a switch tre nose slide and it was steezy, everything he does is done with typical Australian style. To be sponsored by Nike SB and Almost which some would say are leading the way into skateboarding's future you have to be amazing. This is the second skateboarder that has been sponsored be Nike SB on this blog and I now think that Nike SB who also sponsor Justin Brock are sponsoring all bright up and coming talent. I think that in the next year or two we will see a pro board from this man.

Sponsors: Nike SB AUS, Quiksilver, FKD, Almost, PSC, Hardcore Distribution

Hometown: Melbourne Australia

Stance: Goofy

Here is the link for his mag minute:

http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=wtkiUNGR8n0

RAY MALDONADO

Ray Maldonado is in my opinion one of the top up and coming technical skateboarders and continues to amaze me with every piece of footage that I see off him skating.
I constantly visit you tube.com to search for more pieces of him skating. In his mag minute for which I have put the link below he lands a Nollie heel flip noseslide switch fs heel flip out and it looks good which is just ridiculous.






Age: Unknown
Sponsors: Nike SB, Zoo York, The Hundreds, Destructo, Autobahn wheels, and FTC Sacramento. Stance: Goofy
Hometown: Unknown

Quoted By The Skateboard Mag: "All you skate spots best watch your back, there's a ruthless serial shredder named Ray Maldonado on the loose."

Mag Minute:http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=Vij2_qGSyZA&feature=related

JUSTIN CEFAI

Alias: J.C.
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Birthday: 09/26/1983
Stance: Regular
Sponsors: adio, autobahn, element, insight, ZJ boarding house

Justin is insane at skateboarding, he loves manuals and long smooth grinds and he is so good at both. He has three hard hitting well known sponsors to his name and he is amazing. Below is the web address for the skateboard mag minute that he did a while ago.

http://theskateboardmag.com/watch/justin-cefai/

Also if anyone knows who the artists for organika are or does anyone know anyone on flow for organika.

LEM VILLEMIN

LEM VILLEMIN PLAN B SHREDER

LEM VILLEMEN-ADIDAS SKATEBOARDING

LEM VILLEMIN



BORN: Bangkok, Thailand
LIVES: Stuttgart, Germany
STANCE: Regular
SPONSORS: Adidas, Chocolate, Matix, Silver, Nixon, Oakley, FKD, Hall Eleven

This kid is unbelievable at skating, he landed a nollie 360 inward heelflip down a five stair and eveything he does looks good even when it is landed sketch. I think that it's bad how he is sponsored by adidas shoes because they make the coolest shoes ever for skating.

Have a look at this kid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rkhKvmRWBA

Lem is one of my favourite skaters so he deserves the first blog in this series of up and comers, if anyone would like to be in this blog then just let me know and I will check your footage and see what i can do for you.
Also if anyone has any really good tips on tre flips and nose grinds then please let me know.