Chris Cole (skateboarder)

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Chris Cole (born March 10, 1982 in Statesville, North Carolina), is a professional skateboarder. His sponsors are Zero Skateboards, Fallen Footwear, Thunder Trucks, and G-Spot Skate and Snow. Cole currently resides in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. In 2005, he won Thrasher Magazine's Skateboarder of the Year award, Transworld Skateboarding's Reader's Choice skater of the year for 2005 and took the Zero team to victory in Thrasher Magazine's King of the Road 2005. He was named MVP for the King of the Road competition. He has appeared in the videos: The Reason (1998), Feedback (1999), Oh My God! (2000), 411VM issue #40 (2000), Videoradio (2001), Project of a Lifetime (2001), In Bloom (2002), Dying to Live (2002), Capital Crimes (2002), King of the Road 2004, New Blood (2005), Hot Wax (2005), and King of the Road 2005. King of the Road 2006 is currently being edited for release on DVD, and Chris is also filming for the upcoming Wonder? video. He is also editing Hot Wax 2, entitled: "Shred the Gnar" which will be out soon.

Chris Cole 360° Flipping the infamous Wallenburg Set.

He has the recent notable achievement of tre-flipping (360 flip) the Wallenberg big four (a set of four very large stairs at Wallenberg High School, being almost 6 feet high, and 18 feet long, in San Francisco). Other impressive tricks performed by Cole include, a backside 270 ollie to frontside noseblunt on the now skate-stopped Beverly Hills High School 9 stair rail. He also Tuck Knee Grabbed down and S/S (switch stance) frontside 180ed the Hollywood High School 16 stair, nearly 360 flipped, S/S frontside flipped,backside 360'd and backside flipped the LOVE Park fountain gap, as well as having backside 360 ollie kickflipped down the Pit big 4 in Australia. However he does not only go big on tricks: he has a mini ramp in his garage, and can shred extremely well on this, doing tricks such as nosestall nollie frontside 180 heelflips, and hurricanes. Chris Cole is also an avid ledge skater: as a teenager he was a very tech skateboarder, performing tricks such as backside tailslide bigspin kickflips out, and bigspin frontside bluntslides. Cole also likes to hit Radner skatepark being very close to his home. Cole is also known for being a religous skateboarder, thanking "JC" (presumibly Jesus Christ) in the most recent Zero video: "New Blood"

Cole and his wife, Red, recently welcomed their first child, Wyatt Christopher Cole, on April 11, 2006.

Chris is a very good guitar player and it is also noted that Chris Cole is a huge fan of PlayStation's Guitar Hero. ^[1]

List of accomplishments since 2004:

2004 - Thrasher's King of the Road winning team
2004 – Tampa Pro Best Trick – 1st place
2005 – Gravity Games – 1st place
2005 – First signature shoe (The Trooper) from Fallen
2005 – X Games 11 – 3rd place
2005 – Thrasher's Skater of the Year
2005 – Thrasher's King of the Road winning team
2005 – Thrasher's King of the Road MVP
2005 – Goofy vs Regular contest MVP
2005 – Vans Downtown Showdown MVP
2005 – Hammers vs Bangers contest - 1st place
2006 – Global Assault contest - 4th place
2006 – 8th Annual Transworld Readers Choice Award Winner
2006 - X Games 12 – 1st place
2006 - in the éS game of skate, he beat Jimmy Carlin, however lost to Alex Mizurov
2006 - Won Thrasher Magazines King of the Road tour, with sponsor Zero Skateboards for the third straight year
2007 - Second signature shoe (The Ripper) from Fallen