Jeff Grosso

Jeffrey Blain Grosso was an American professional skateboarder, skate documentarian and web series host from Arcadia, California, born on 28 April 1968 and died on 31 March 2020. He started skateboarding at five and entered his first contest at twelve; after his death the Los Angeles Times erroneously reported that he turned pro at twelve. In 1982, when he was fourteen, Vans sponsored him, a relationship that continued into 2020 with Vans sponsoring his popular YouTube show Love Letters to Skateboarding. By sixteen he had left his first board sponsor, Variflex, to join Santa Cruz Skateboards, and he grew up skating with prominent figures such as Neil Blender and Lance Mountain.