Tim Brauch

Timothy Michael Brauch, known as Tim Brauch, born on 26 April 1974 and died on 9 May 1999, was an American professional skateboarder who grew up in San Jose, California. He came up in skateboarding during the late 1980s and early 1990s, a period when professionalism meant small paychecks and little fame outside skateboarding but much travel and many experiences and good times with friends. At fifteen he was sponsored by Sessions, followed by sponsorship from Vans, Independent and New Deal, which led to his first video part in the New Deal video Useless Wooden Toys, and not long after he switched to Santa Monica Airlines out of the local NHS.