Mike Carroll (skateboarder)

Michael Shawn Carroll is a professional skateboarder from Daly City, California, born on 24 August 1975, who is the co-founder and vice-president of Girl Skateboards and co-founder of Lakai Limited Footwear, and was instrumental in creating the Chocolate Skateboards subdivision of Girl. He is known for being in the vanguard of innovative, technical and stylish street skateboarding in the early 1990s and beyond, and videos such as Hokus Pokus, Ban This! and Video Days made street the premier form of skating, a position vert skateboarding had held. His first sponsors were H-Street, Concrete Jungle and the FTC skate shop in San Francisco, and when Concrete Jungle closed in 1988 he became a founding member of the FTC team with his brother Gregg Carroll, Jovontae Turner and Rick Ibaseta. He appeared in H-Street video parts in 1988, 1989 and 1990 and in 1991 joined the Plan B team that Mike Ternasky formed after leaving H-Street.