It’s a classic California skateboard success story: kid from Brighton, England moves to San Diego at 18 and freestyles his way into the position of skateboard industry titan. It’s the Don Brown true skateboarding story as told by Red Bull in their Red Bulletin.
“I was living in the moment,” he recalls. “I remember going to a contest in Huntington Beach one day, looking in my wallet and realising I only had a dollar to my name.” So, Brown took a warehouse job with Vision Skateboarding. After winning three consecutive amateur contests, Vision became his sponsor, eventually giving him what no other English skater before him had managed – a professional board model named after him.
That was only the beginning. In the early 90s Don joined Pierre Senizergues at Etnies and the skateboard footwear world was never the same again. Then again, neither was any industry event that Don attended, but we’ll keep those stories to ourselves.
[Link: Red Bulletin]
