Mark "Monk" Hubbard

Mark Monk Hubbard, born on 27 October 1970 and died on 8 June 2018, was a skateboarder, artist, skatepark builder and founder of Grindline Skateparks. He was born in West Seattle and received his first skateboard in 1975 for his fifth birthday. He believed in do-it-yourself skate spots and in building your own skateboarding paradise, saying nothing compares to riding an obstacle you have built, and he was involved in the Burnside Skatepark project. On 26 January 2000 he founded Grindline Skateparks, which had built over 300 parks across the world as of 2015, and during his life he helped design and build hundreds of skate parks.