Bastien Salabanzi

Bastien Salabanzi is a French professional skateboarder with a regular stance, born on 18 November 1985 in Toulon. He started skating at nine, soon gained his first sponsorship from the Skateshop of Toulon and won his first contest at eleven in Marseille, after which Vans flew him to the finals in California. In 2001, at fifteen, he won the World Cup in Dortmund, took second at the Tampa Am street finals that year and won the Tampa Pro street finals in 2004, with second place the following year. He finished third in the street event at the 2004 X Games, won the WSR05 contest in Rotterdam in 2005, and in 2006 won best trick at the Mystic Skate Cup in Prague.