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Here’s Erik Ellington doing some tight tricks. (and some early videos from childhood too.)
Check out his shoes at the SupraFootWear.com.
Excerpt on Erik from Wikipedia:
Erik Ellington (born August 9, 1977 in Anchorage, Alaska) is a professional skateboarder. Ellington is goofy footed. He currently resides in Hollywood, California.
Ellington was a member of the “Piss Drunx’ c. mid to late 1990s to 2000s with Jim Greco, Ali Boulala, Andrew Reynolds, Dustin Dollin.
He has appeared in videos such as Zero’s “The Thrill of It All”, & “Misled Youth”, Emerica’s “This Is Skateboarding,” & “Kids in Emerica” and “Baker 3 and Baker Has a Deathwish”.
In 2005, he started a new footwear company, Supra also co-owned by KR3W owner, along with Jim Greco, Tom Penny, Antwuan Dixon and Chad Muska. In 2006, his pro model shoe from Supra hit stores named “DOUBLE E”. The shoe’s design resembles his older shoe, “Ellington 1″ from previous sponsor, Emerica. The Ellington 1 was remade by Emerica as the “Vettes”.
Ellington co-founded a new eyewear company called Brigada with Jim Greco, Andrew Reynolds, and Terry Kennedy in 2007. They started the company without the help of any distributor and finance it with their own savings[1].
Ellington left Baker Skateboards in 2008 along with Jim Greco, and Antwuan Dixon to start Deathwish Skateboards, the sister company to Baker Skateboards.
Ellington is married to Lucianna. They have two children, Julius Luther Ellington, born September 17, 2005. and Mya Ellington, December 11, 2008.
