Steve Berra

Steve Berra is an American professional skateboarder and director, and the co-founder and co-owner of the skateboarding website The Berrics, born on 10 May 1973. He grew up in Nebraska and Missouri and said in 2007 that his family was poor and that he had no phone. He was bullied at school for skateboarding and struggled as a student, saying he was the kid everybody assumed was a complete lost cause, and at fourteen, isolated and with few friends, he decided that a professional skateboarding career was his aspiration. At eighteen he moved to southern California and lived with Tony Hawk, who advised him to look at skating as fun but not as a career, given the subculture's marginal status then. His first sponsor was Blockhead.