David González (skateboarder)

David González is a Colombian professional skateboarder, born on 9 August 1990, who was named Thrasher magazine's Skater of the Year in December 2012. He was born and raised in Bello, a municipality north of Medellín, Colombia. In a 2012 interview for the Weekend Buzz show on the RIDE Channel he said that he had been growing his hair since the age of twelve, the same age at which he stopped attending school, in seventh grade, to concentrate on skateboarding. The Skater of the Year title, voted by one of skateboarding's most widely read magazines, marks him as one of the leading street skateboarders of his generation, and he rose to it from a small town in the Colombian highlands.