Leo Romero

Leo Romero is a professional skateboarder, born on 28 November 1986 in Fontana, California, the son of Mexican immigrant parents, whose early influences included Heath Kirchart, Jamie Thomas and Andrew Reynolds. He first started skating around 1997 with his friendship crew The Death Junkies, said in 2009 that he was ditching school and skating with friends as a teenager, and said in 2010 that growing up he knew what he wanted and did not let other people bother him. He has four siblings, Nicolas, Dario, Ish and Selena. He credits his sponsor the Pharmacy skateboard shop with helping him leave his hometown to start a skateboarding career, while his father has believed that he is the reason Romero made it so far, and Romero says his father gave him all the inspiration behind his career.