Joe Humeres

Joe Humeres, born in 1965 in Santiago, Chile, is a United States National champion freestyle skateboarder who in 1988 became New York City's first professional skateboarder. He appears in the 2009 documentary Deathbowl to Downtown, in the book Full Bleed and prominently in the 2022 film Virgin Blacktop: A New York Skate Odyssey, all of which deal with the history of New York City skateboarding. He grew up in Nyack, New York, and started skateboarding at eleven. In 1977 he and other kids from Nyack and nearby Hudson River towns formed a group of skateboarders called the Wizards, which competed in contests in the Northeast, performed exhibitions in the suburbs of New York City and frequented Skate-Away Skateboard Arena, an indoor skatepark in Nanuet.