Manny Santiago

Emanuel Manny Santiago, nicknamed Manny Slays All, is a professional skateboarder from Cayey, Puerto Rico, born on 10 September 1985 and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts. He began skateboarding at fourteen after skate parks were built in Lowell, one near the Boys and Girls Club he attended, and he found in the sport an oasis from the growing gang culture around him. He was the first Puerto Rican skateboarder in Street League Skateboarding's premier competitive series, won two consecutive stops of the first Select Series in Brazil and Barcelona in 2013, and in 2012 became the first Puerto Rican street skateboarder to place in the top three at the X Games, taking third in the Barcelona finals. He is known for his missing tooth, his ear-to-ear smile and his positive demeanour.