Ron Allen (skateboarder)

Ron Allen, born on 31 December 1962, is a goofy-footed American skateboarder from Visalia, California, who lives and works in Oakland and is a well-known California street and vert skater with parts in the H-Street videos Shackle Me Not and Hokus Pokus. He is one of the nation's first black professional skateboarders and one of the first to obtain a major corporate sponsorship. The first company to sponsor him was Gullwing Trucks, and after he placed third in an amateur contest in Santa Barbara Vision Street Wear began to sponsor him. In 1989 he left Vision for the newly founded H-Street, alongside John Schultes, Colby Carter, Art Godoy, Tony Magnusson and Danny Way.