Geoff Rowley

Geoffrey Joseph Rowley Jr. is an English professional skateboarder, born on 6 June 1976, a former co-owner of Flip Skateboards and the owner of the Civilware Service Corporation. Thrasher Magazine gave him its Skater of the Year award in 2000. He began skateboarding around 1989 in his home city of Liverpool, skating for entire days while his friends skated for short periods, and became interested through schoolmates who skated. He has said skateboarding culture was not accepted in Liverpool then, that it became prominent there during the 1980s, and that products were hard to buy, since the only place selling skateboards in the city was the record shop Probe Records. His parents were supportive of his skating.