Guy Mariano

Guy Mariano is an American professional skateboarder, born on 31 March 1976, who first gained recognition at fourteen for his video part in the Blind Skateboards video Video Days in 1991. He attended John Burroughs High School in Burbank, California. His first sponsor was the Californian retail outlet Val Surf and his first deck sponsor was Powell Peralta, in whose video Ban This he appeared with Paulo Diaz, Rudy Johnson and Gabriel Rodriguez. With Mark Gonzales, Jason Lee, Jordan Richter and Rudy Johnson he appeared in Video Days, considered a classic in skateboarding history; Skateboarder magazine reunited its members twenty years after its release, and Paul Rodriguez said in 2003 that he watched it in 1999 to understand why his generation skated as it did. Mariano later rode alongside professionals including Rodney Mullen, Jeron Wilson and Andrew Reynolds.