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I am: Jay Jensen I live: in Minneapolis, MN I have been skating: since 1987, but I remember pushing on one-knee on an old yellow banana board around the block that my cousin had when I was around eight or nine years old My first board:  Actually I wanted a board so bad that I took an old 1" x 12" piece of timber that was about a foot and a half long and cut out some square blocks to attach underneath that acted as makeshift 'trucks'. I learned how to do boneless ones and rocking stops on that old timber board! I used this homemade fake board for about a month until I got a Kaybee Toys 'Wizard' skateboard for my 15th birthday. Both of the trucks broke within the first two weeks of having it, so I went to the local hobby store, 'Marty's Hobbycraft' and bought up a set of black Ventures. They were the cheapest trucks in the store, but completely legit... Then I bought a used complete from my skate pal Jeremey Pillar. It was a woodstain blue Scmitt Stix Jeff Grosso (with the John Lucero ragdoll-toybox graphic art). It had green Gullwing Pro III's, and Slimeballs wheels. To me, that was a real skateboard! I have been a core skateboarder ever since. Watch out! Contact me: email - jay@ramptroll.com telephone - 612.867.8575