Chris Cole (skateboarder)

James Chris Cole is an American professional skateboarder, born on 10 March 1982 in Statesville, North Carolina. He moved to the Philadelphia area at a young age and grew up in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. He gained attention for difficult tricks, including a backside 360 kickflip down the Carlsbad gap in California and at the Martin Place Amphitheatre in Sydney, and most notably a backside flip, switch frontside flip and backside 360 ollie down the Love Park fountain in Philadelphia, seen in his Transworld In Bloom and Fallen Ride the Sky video parts. His sponsors have included Enjoi, Zero Skateboards and Fallen Footwear, and in May 2013 he agreed, after a bet with Mike Mo Capaldi, to join the Glassy brand if he lost the Battle at the Berrics 6, which he did.