Ricky Oyola

If there is one person that embodies skating in the city, it's Ricky Oyola.

During a period when skateboarding was seeing most of it's limits pushed in the sun bmeached schoolyards of Southern California, Ricky Oyola and few of his pals cracked heads when they put Philadelphia on the map. Philly boasted a haven for street skating with Love Park, but Ricky isn't happy skating one spot. No.

Ricky led the grimy inner city youth by literally charging the streets of the city of Brotherly Love. Racing through midtown traffic and assaulting poles and access ramps at mach 10.

Single-handedly, Ricky Oyola pushes the envelope when it comes to actually skating in the street. It's no surprise to find Ricky operating a skate company out of his hometown called Traffic Skateboards, hitching cars, bombing hills and running red lights.

Josh Kasper

Josh Kasper dreamt of rolling into a demo on a Harley Davidson, parking the hog atop a pyramid, launching a benihana over it whilst beaming a kid in the crowd and dedicating his move to the youth.

A dream like that is pretty unique, and it takes a certain kind of skater to think such a scenario up. Skateboarding couldn't help but notice Josh because his antics had skaters rubber necking all around the globe. To get noticed, Josh played it simple by making a name for himself as the kid who ollies the biggest shit. 20 stairs, 15 foot drops, famous gaps... Josh flew it all.

It was only a couple of years after his heroic arrival on the scene that things went pear shaped and his real bag of tricks and dubious past was revealed. To put it bluntly, Josh had about three tricks in total- The 360 flip, the benihana and the heelflip, and he used to rollerblade.

That later truth sent Josh's career spiralling downwards and the loyal support from his adament fans, the Kasperholics, took a beating.

Josh has since left the limelight, but still enjoys the odd roll around. He doesn't seem the least bit fazed about his shady ascent to fame and even openly admits to having enjoyed being a rollerblader. Big Brother magazine celebrated skateboarding's disgraced daredevil by posting him on the cover of their Worst Issue Ever!