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.