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

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

Quiksilver soon promoted Kaupas to the role of graphic director and then vice president of marketing.

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

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.

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

Kaupas began skating during his childhood years.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.

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He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of " Reverence for Life ", expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding and sustaining the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, now in Gabon, west central Africa ( then French Equatorial Africa ).

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Similarly, the early disciples had first been baptized in water ... and then they received the holy spirit.

He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his efforts to end civil wars then raging in several Central American countries.

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He then enrolled in the Bucharest School of Fine Arts, where he received academic training in sculpture.

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He then switched from physics to mathematics, and in 1960 he received his bachelor of science degree, simultaneously receiving his master of science degree by a special award of the faculty who considered his work outstanding.

Later in the war he succeeded Jellicoe as Commander in Chief of the Grand Fleet, in which capacity he received the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet at the end of hostilities, and then in the 1920s he served a lengthy term as First Sea Lord ( head of the Royal Navy ).

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