Bob Burnquist

Bob Burnquist
Burnquist skating in Brazil, 2008
Born	Robert Dean Silva Burnquist October 10, 1976 (1976-10-10) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Nationality	Brazilian
Citizenship	United States and Brazil
Occupation	Skateboarder Co-owner of Burnquist Organics
Years active	1992–present
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Spouse	Verônica Nachard
Children	2, Lotus O'Brien Silva Burnquist, Jasmyn
Website
BobBurnquist.com

Summer X Games medal record
Competitor for Brazil
Gold	2000 San Francisco	Vert Best Trick
Gold	2001 Philadelphia	Vert
Gold	2003 Los Angeles	Vert Doubles
Gold	2005 Los Angeles	Vert Best Trick
Gold	2007 Los Angeles	Skateboard Big Air
Gold	2008 Los Angeles	Skateboard Big Air
Gold	2010 Los Angeles	Skateboard Big Air Rail Jam
Gold	2011 Los Angeles	Skateboard Big Air
Silver	2002 Philadelphia	Vert
Silver	2002 Philadelphia	Vert Doubles
Silver	2006 Los Angeles	Vert
Silver	2009 Los Angeles	Skateboard Big Air
Silver	2009 Los Angeles	Skateboard Big Air Rail Jam
Silver	2010 Los Angeles	Skateboard Big Air
Bronze	1997 San Diego	Vert
Bronze	1998 San Diego	Vert Doubles
Bronze	1999 San Francisco	Vert Best Trick
Bronze	2001 Philadelphia	Vert Best Trick
Bronze	2006 Los Angeles	Vert Best Trick
Bronze	2010 Los Angeles	Vert Best Trick

Robert Dean Silva Burnquist (born October 10, 1976), better known as Bob Burnquist, is a Brazilian professional skateboarder. In 2010 he became the first skateboarder to land a fakie to fakie 900. This also makes Burnquist the 5th person in history to have ever landed the 900.

Background

Bob Burnquist was born in Rio de Janeiro to an Swedish-American father and a Brazilian mother. He became adept at skateboarding in São Paulo. As an adult he emigrated to North America; he holds dual citizenship in Brazil and the U.S.

Career

Burnquist's biggest success to date came at the vert contest at the 2001 X-Games. Before his final run (the last run of the event) he was sitting in second place behind two-time defending champion Bucky Lasek. Burnquist produced a flawless run, including multiple tricks that had never been seen before and, as a result, were unnamed. During the run, commentator Tony Hawk went hoarse and nearly lost his voice while screaming in disbelief. Burnquist was rewarded with a 98, the second highest score ever given in any X-Games skateboarding event, behind only Bucky Lasek's score of a 98.50 the year before.

Burnquist's specialties are in switch stance skateboarding and creating innovative vert tricks. He has always tried to find new ways to make his tricks more creative and more difficult. He has a signature trick called "one-footed smith grind". Burnquist has also been featured in the hit video game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, and appeared in all of its sequels with the exception of Pro Skater 3, due to license restrictions as a result of his appearing in another skating game, X-Games Skateboarding, during that year. He returned as a featured character in the series starting again with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 and has since appeared in all the series' games following that.

In 2004, Burnquist made a guest appearance as himself on the popular TV series, Kim Possible and also won a gold medal in the 2005 X-Games Best Trick vert contest.

Burnquist is the only skater to go over a loop ramp with a gap in it (OP King Of Skate). Not only was the loop gapped, but Burnquist also did the gap switch. He is also the first skater to go through a loop while riding switch stance, and the first to go all the way around a full pipe just by pumping up to speed inside it. In 2000, Burnquist won the X-Games' best trick contest, with his famous fakie 5-0 with a fakie Kickflip off of the grind bar. He created a trick called "Burntwist", which is in the Tony Hawk's series.

Burnquist completed a BASE jump after attempting a 50-50 into the Grand Canyon. The first attempt nearly cost Burnquist his life after he missed the rail and fell out of control before regaining himself and successfully deploying his parachute. After some adjustments to the take-off ramp his second attempt went off flawlessly. This stunt was shown in an episode of the television show Stunt Junkies.

He formerly lived with professional skateboarder Jen O'Brien, and their daughter Lotus. He now lives with Veronica Nachard and their daughter Jasmyn (born 2007) in Vista, California, where he has a world-renowned vert ramp in his backyard. This ramp has been skated by dozens of famous skateboarders, including Colin McKay, Tony Hawk, Rune Glifberg Bucky Lasek, and Lincoln Ueda, and has been featured in hundreds of magazines and videos, including Tony Hawk's Trick Tips and Thrasher Magazine. Burnquist's latest addition to his backyard skate-park is one of the world's few permanent Mega Ramps.

He had also started the Bob Burnquist Foundation to bring knowledge about organic farming and gardening to schools, and was one of the founders of the Action Sports Environmental Coalition, a nonprofit organization that brings ecological awareness to skateboarders, surfers and BMXers.

Videography

Burnquist has been featured in many videos including:

• Es Menikmati

• Anti Hero's Self Entitled Video "Anti Hero"

• Anti Hero's First Video "F***tards"

• The Firm's "Can't Stop"

• Flip's "Extremely Sorry"

• Viva La Bam

Burnquist was featured in a commercial for Aero choclate bars.

Contest history

• 1st in 2011 X Games Big Air
• 1st in 2010 X Games Big Air Rail Jam
• 3rd in 2010 X Games Vert Best Trick
• 2nd in 2010 X Games Big Air
• 2nd in 2009 X Games Big Air
• 3rd in 2009 Maloof Money Cup
• 2nd in 2009 X Games Big Air Rail Jam
• 1st in 2008 X Games Big Air
• 1st in 2007 X Games Big Air
• 3rd in 2006 X Games Big Air
• 1st in 2006 The Coolio Games
• 1st in 2005 X Games Vert Best Trick
• 1st in 2003 X Games vert doubles (with Bucky Lasek)
• 2nd in 2002 X Games vert doubles (with Bucky Lasek)
• 1st in 2001 X Games vert
• 1st in 2001 Slam City Jam vert.
• 1st in 2000 X Games Vert Best Trick
• 1st in 2000 Slam City Jam vert.
• 1st in 1995 Slam City Jam vert.
• 4th in 1996 Gravity Games Jam vert.