Baker Skateboards

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Antwuan Dixon in a Baker skateboards ad promoting Baker 3

Baker Skateboards is a skateboarding company founded by professional skateboarder Andrew Reynolds and Creative founder Jay Strickland in 2000. It's main products are skateboard decks and wheels.

History

Andrew Reynolds was a professional skateboarder for Birdhouse Skateboards. In 2000 he left Birdhouse feeling he didn't fit in with their image and started Baker with Jay Strickland, along with Blitz Distribution as an investment partner (Blitz is a company formed by Birdhouse founders Tony Hawk and Per Welinder to distribute their own products). In February 2002, with pressure from Strickland to make good on Reynolds' promise of 50% ownership, Reynolds purchased the shares of Baker owned by Blitz to become the sole owner. Baker still remains a member of the Blitz Distribution family. Reynolds' promise to Strickland went unfulfilled, and Strickland left Baker to form his own company, Bootleg Skateboards (with the name taken form Baker's first video, Baker-Bootleg) under NHS Inc, which has since folded.

Team

• Matt Redepenning
• Erik Ellington
• Jim Greco
• Terrrrrrry Kennedy
• Dustin Dollin
• Jeff Lenoce
• Kevin Long
• Bryan Herman
• Braydon Szafranski
• Leo Romero
• Sammy Baca
• Antwuan Dixon
• Nick Merlino
• Theotis Beasley
• Rammy Issa

Videos

• Baker Bootleg (1999)
• Baker 2g (2000)
• Summer tour 2001 (2001)
• Baker 3 (2005)
• Death Wish Promo (2007)

Baker 3 was the recipient of the Best Video award at the 8th Annual Transworld Skateboarding Awards.

External links

• Baker Skateboards
• Blitz Distribution