Tom Penny

Tom Penny is a professional skateboarder from Abingdon, United Kingdom, born on 13 April 1977, who as of January 2013 was sponsored by the Flip skateboard deck brand; his Cheech and Chong signature deck is one of the brand's highest-selling decks. He was born in Abingdon and grew up skateboarding in Oxford, where he attended the Dragon School, with friends Justin Parker, Erin Chalice, Pete Crucioli and Thomas Kilpatrick. Oxford pro and SS20 co-owner Sean Goff added him to the SS20 shop team, and he gained coverage in UK magazines including RAD and Skateboard! and in videos such as Rollersnakes 540 and 720. He was then added to the Deathbox Skateboards team by owner Jeremy Fox, the company later merged with Bash and rebranded as Flip, and in 1993 he appeared in the first Flip video, The Long Overdue.