Baker Skateboards

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 concentrate on his own company, Bootleg Skateboards (with the name taken from Strickland's first video, Baker-Bootleg released 2 years before Baker skateboards started) under NHS Inc, which has since folded.

 - Andrew Reynolds

Baker Skate Team

Andrew Reynolds
Erik Ellington
Jim Greco
Terry Kennedy
Dustin Dollin
Jeff Lenoce
Kevin Long
Bryan Herman
Braydon Szafranski
Leo Romero
Sammy Baca
Antwuan Dixon
Theotis Beasley
Rammy Issa

Videos

Summer Tour 2001 (2001)
Baker 2g (2002)
Baker 3 (2005)
Death Wish Promo (2007) (not yet released)

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