Influential US skateboarder Marc Johnson dies aged 49: ‘Everything he did was art’
Tributes pour in from across skateboarding worldJohnson was Thrasher’s 2007 skater of the yearMarc Johnson, the influential professional skateboarder whose inventive street style and Bay Area roots helped define modern street skating, has died at the age of 49.Johnson’s death was announced in a statement attributed to longtime friend and fellow professional skateboarder Louie Barletta and shared by Thrasher Magazine. A cause of death was not immediately disclosed. Continue reading…
Tributes pour in from across skateboarding worldJohnson was Thrasher’s 2007 skater of the yearMarc Johnson, the influential professional skateboarder whose inventive street style and Bay Area roots helped define modern street skating, has died at the age of 49.Johnson’s death was announced in a statement attributed to longtime friend and fellow professional skateboarder Louie Barletta…
Tributes pour in from across skateboarding worldJohnson was Thrasher’s 2007 skater of the yearMarc Johnson, the influential professional skateboarder whose inventive street style and Bay Area roots helped define modern street skating, has died at the age of 49.Johnson’s death was announced in a statement attributed to longtime friend and fellow professional skateboarder Louie Barletta and shared by Thrasher Magazine. A cause of death was not immediately disclosed. Continue reading…
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