Mike Vallely

Mike Vallely, also known as Mike V, is an American professional skateboarder and musician, born on 28 November 1970 and raised in Edison, New Jersey. From 2013 to 2025 he was the lead vocalist of the hardcore punk band Black Flag, the band's second-longest-serving member although he appeared on no albums. He played little league baseball until 1984, when at fourteen he discovered skateboarding and punk music and borrowed a board from a friend; that Christmas his parents bought him a Jeff Phillips professional signature model. Besides street skating he took up vert, skating Tom Groholski's ramp, The Barn Ramp and the Brooklyn Banks under the Brooklyn Bridge, and in 1986 he briefly lived in Virginia Beach, where he befriended local skaters at Kempsville High School.