Mike Carroll

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Mike Carroll (born 1975) is a professional skateboarder from San Francisco who skated for H-Street and then joined the super team, Plan B Skateboards. Mike is known for being an innovator of technical street skating in the early 90's . He is one of two adopted children, and is related to fellow skateboarder Ian O'Hanlon. Ian is infamous for breaking both of his arms in a failed attempt to ollie up a curb. In a mass defection, Mike started Girl Skateboards with fellow Plan B rider Rick Howard. Carroll is often sarcastic towards people. He was a long-time rider for Vans Shoes, but abruptly left the company soon after they released his pro model shoe and jumped to DC, where they released a signature model shoe called the Cosmo. Not long afterwards he left DC along with Rick Howard and they started their own shoe company, Lakai, a shortened version of Malakai, a nickname of Mike Carroll's. Caroll is said to have discovered the famous San Francisco skateboard landmark 3rd and Army. [1]

Carroll won Thrasher magazine's Skater of the Year award in 1994. Carroll is a playable character in EA's 2007 video game "skate."


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