Frank Gerwer

Frank Gerwer is a professional skateboarder, known for several underground videos.

Biography

Frank Gerwer learned to ride a skateboard while growing up in Hicksville, Long Island (New York).

He currently lives in San Francisco and is a professional skateboarder. His main contribution to skateboarding was kickflippping the Wallenberg Four, a famous skateboarding area in San Francisco. His home address, Six Newell is widely known because of the his video of the same name. [cite web
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title = Your Video Guide to: Six Newell
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Kickflipping The Wallenberg Four

Taking this advice to heart, Frank later became the first to kickflip (no grab) on the Wallenberg Four, a set of steps located at a San Francisco school on Saturday, October 27, 2001.cite news
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ponsorship history

His first board sponsor was a short lived company named "Thirteen Colonies" (During this period he gained the nickname "Thirteen Colonies Frank"). Some time after, he gained sponsorship by the now defunct company "Number nine". Through his connections to Alex Goldberg, Gerwer landed his first shoe sponsor: Simple shoes.

Soon after he moved to San Francisco and joined Lance Mountain's company "The Firm." "The Firm" and "Anti-Hero" (his current sponsor) cooperated to create a foreign exchange program with foreign skaters.

References

External links

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rteA4burzYA video link (You Tube from Anti-Hero's "Cash Money Vagrant")]