Jerry Hsu

Jerry Hsu is a Taiwanese-American skateboarder, photographer and owner and operator of the skate company Sci-Fi Fantasy, born on 17 December 1981. As of 2007 his family home was in San Jose, California; his family is originally from Taiwan and his parents speak English and Mandarin Chinese, though he said in 2010 that his Chinese is about at a third grader's level. He started skateboarding in the early 1990s, attracted, he said in 2013, by kids with green hair and big pants who looked so stupid that he wanted to be that, and his mother brought home a discarded concrete parking block for him to skate. His first deck sponsor was Maple, where his teammates included Marc Johnson, who helped recruit him, Louie Barletta, Chad Bartie and Chad Knight.