John Cardiel

John Joseph Cardiel, born on 14 December 1973, is an American former professional skateboarder and snowboarder who has been a known core member of the Anti Hero Skateboards company since it was founded in 1995. He was born in San Jose, California, and grew up in Half Moon Bay and Grass Valley. In a 1998 Transworld Skateboarding interview with the photographer Tobin Yelland he said that skating was never about getting sponsored but about skating, and that most sponsored skaters were not thinking about sponsorship all the time but simply wanted to get away from home and skate. He is known as one of the core riders who defined the Anti Hero team and its rough, fast style of street skating in the late 1990s.