In 1998 Kaupas along with longtime friend Mark Oblow formed Vita Shoes, which was short lived.

By now Kaupas was regularly skating with such notables as Mark Gonzales, Julien Stranger and Jim Thiebaud and setting the roots for what would be known as street skating.

This was followed up when Kaupas and Gonzales performed what is considered the first legitimate rail slide and later with 50-50 grinds.

Kaupas then found plenty of work in design and art with clothing company Quiksilver and Element Skateboards.

Graham fell deeper into the Skate culture of Mid 80's Los Angeles hanging out at Venice Beach with Skaters such as Christian Hosoi, Eric Dressen, Jesse Martinez and Natas Kaupas.

With no further need for his turntables Graham traded them with Natas Kaupas for a custom painted skateboard and a selection of Trucks, Stickers and Wheels.

In 1991 fellow pro skater Steve Rocco, who started World Industries skateboards, approached Kaupas about starting his own line of skateboards.

Among the endless list of famous skateboarders who appear in the film as Stunt Skaters include Mike McGill, " Gator " Mark Rogowski, Rodney Mullen, Rich Dunlop, Eric Dressen, Lance Mountain, Mike Vallely, Chris Black, Ted Ehr, Natas Kaupas, Chris Borst, and Steve Saiz.

This was odd as according to Kaupas he had never owned a copy of the magazine.

Despite his growing popularity Kaupas was not keen on being so well known and avoided crowds of fans, preferring to just skate.

In 1988 Kaupas had become such a well-known figure that shoe company etnies was so impressed they offered him his own pro model shoe, an entirely new concept in the skating world.

The marketing and design of the shoe was influenced by Kaupas.

By 1992 101 had become a major brand and Kaupas was still actively skating, however this would change after he suffered from a broken ankle.

Kaupas began skating during his childhood years.

In 1984 Thrasher Magazine photographer and skating commentator Craig Stecyk took a photo of Kaupas riding off a wall.

Kaupas continued skating and managing SMA.

The company would become an outlet for Kaupas to employ his graphic and artistic talents.

In 1983 Kaupas won a local Santa Monica surfing contest and received a Santa Monica Airlines ( SMA ) skateboard as a first place prize.

Kaupas left SMA and began 101 Skateboards.

As Kaupas began to hone his skills on the streets of Santa Monica others took notice.

With this cover photo Kaupas began to receive more magazine coverage and professional skaters took note.

Natas Kaupas ( born 1969 ) is a semi-retired American professional skateboarder.

Kaupas approached Engblom about becoming a member of his skate team, which did not exist.

Kaupas would then utilize his surroundings preferring not to ride ramps or parks.

Kaupas by his own admission remained clueless or uninterested in the skateboard subculture.

By the mid 1980s Kaupas had discovered riding walls where he would throw his skateboard up on a wall and ride off of it.

The members of Thrasher Magazine were so impressed by Kaupas the photo made the cover of the magazine in September 1984.

The combination of Kaupas and Gonzales would give the skateboarding a laundry list of new tricks and ideas.

Kaupas impressed Engblom when he approached Santa Cruz skateboards about a distribution arrangement.

While at a pro-am skate contest held in Oceanside, California Kaupas stunned the crowd by attempting a board slide down a handrail.

Kaupas played a role in the film and showed the world what he had been doing all these years in Santa Monica.

Natas spelled backwards is satan. Etnies logo Kaupas attempted to explain that his name as being the masculine version of Lithuanian female name of Natalia.

In 1989 Santa Cruz released a follow up video entitled Streets on Fire, which Kaupas played a greater role.

Kaupas had already tested the ollie to new heights but he stunned the skateboard world when he ollied up on a fire hydrant and performed a 720 degree spin while filming the video.

A brace of pistols, holstered on belts, hung from a peg, along with ammunition pouches.

Then, with a glory that almost wiped out the deep, downward sags in her careworn face, Matilda leaned over the wheel and shouted to Hez, who was stumbling along in the heat and the dust on the opposite side of the wagon `` Pa!!

At these words of sympathy and understanding, Harmony said generously, `` I don't mind setting here along with Gran while you go out and join in the games ''.

Already a few hardy folk from their own train were zealously chipping away at the register rocks, leaving their own records along with those made by the earlier trains.

The only drawback now to the plan he'd decided on was that someone else might fail to do his work, too, and the teacher would have that person stay late along with Jack.

Probably a larger percentage of Virginians and South Carolinians remain unreconstructed than elsewhere, with Georgia, North Carolina, and Alabama following along after them.

When the Revolution broke out, he, along with Jefferson and Jay, abandoned his career at the bar, with considerable financial sacrifice.

Dictionaries, as we have seen, still cite this government, along with the Articles of Confederation of 1781, as an example of a confederacy.

In agriculture, for example, despite the advances in biology, elaborate rituals tend to persist along with a continued sense of the imminence of some natural disaster.

she filled the waste spots of the yard with common things like the garden heliotrope in a corner by the woodshed, and the plantain lilies along the west side of the house.

The first sentence, with its platitudinous irony, announces an emblematic intent: `` The way to the churchyard ran along beside the highroad, ran beside it all the way to the end ; ;

These new pictures focussed on the familiar and commonplace objects that he had heard the men in his prison camp talking about as the things they missed most, hence associated with the sense of lost freedom: the cafe at the corner, the newspaper kiosk, the girls in doorways and windows along the street, the golden-crusted French bread they lacked, the cigarettes denied them.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

Swift, in the Dublin edition of A Preface to the Bishop of Sarum's Introduction, indicated his feelings by including Molesworth, along with Toland, Tindal, and Collins, in the group of those who, like Burnet, are engaged in attacking all Convocations of the clergy.

From his playmates in Savannah, Mercer had picked up, along with a soft Southern dialect, traces also of the Gullah dialects of Africa.

Much to Damon Runyon's amazement, as well as my own, I got along splendidly with the Hetman ; ;

In the range and variety of characters who, in their literary lives, get along all right with life styles one never imagined possible, there is an implicit lesson in differentiation.

In this essay, we are, along with most historians, interested in the more general or more inclusive ideas, that are so to speak `` writ large '' in history of literature where they recur continually.

A horse needed twenty pounds of food a day but the infantryman got along with two pounds.

along the Danube and among the Carpathians, in alliance with the Emperor Joseph's armies ; ;

Having done so, he began to experience all the frustrations of others who attempted to get along with Serenissimus and do a job at the same time.

The selective and directional qualities of basic value-orientations are clearly evident in these data: the `` success-oriented '' students choose vocational preparation, the `` other-directed '' choose goals of social adjustment ( `` getting along with people '' ), the `` intellectuals '' choose a liberal arts emphasis.

In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.