Reggie Barnes (skateboarder)

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Reggie Barnes
Personal information
Birth nameReginald Barnes Jr.
Bornc. 1961 (age approximately 60)
Cary, North Carolina, U.S.
Education Cape Fear Community College
EmployerEastern Skateboard Supply
Height5 ft 6 in (168 cm)
Website www.easternskatesupply.com
Sport
Sport Skateboarding
Event Freestyle
TeamWizard Skate Team
Powerflex
Pepsi Pro Skateboard Team
Walker Skateboards
Dogtown Skateboards
Turned pro1979
Retired1991
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)2nd – NSA Finals 1984
1st – Sundek Pro-Am Challenge 1984

Reginald Barnes Jr., aka Reggie Barnes (born c. 1961) is a retired American professional freestyle skateboarder and the founder/CEO of Eastern Skateboard Supply, the largest skateboard wholesale company in North America. [1] Known as a "virtuoso" teen amateur, Barnes skated professionally from 1980 to 1991, with the Pepsi-Cola Pro Skateboard Team, Walker Skateboards, and Dogtown Skateboards. [2] [3] By 1986, Barnes was one of the top five American freestyle skateboarders in the United States and was featured demonstrator at Expo 86, the world's fair held in Vancouver, Canada. [4] He placed third in freestyle at the World Cup in 1987.

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Barnes retired from competitive skateboarding when his interest switched to street style skating and running his two businesses. He opened the retail skateboard shop, Endless Grind Raleigh, North Carolina in 1986. He used his professional connections to bring professional skaters to the East Coast where their demonstrations attracted the interest of the next generation of professional skaters. One event, the 1986 Endless Grind / Bones Brigade Skateboard Showdown, featured Barnes competing against Steve Caballero; their showdown was captured in East Coast Motions, a 2018 documentary.

Barnes' other business, Eastern Skateborad Supply, is a wholesale company, in Wilmington, North Carolina with annual sales of $24.64 million in 2021. The company produces and distributes Tony Hawk's Birdhouse Skateboards and other brands such as Plan B Skateboards. Barnes hires former skaters and built a corporate skatepark at the company's warehouse that features the biggest bowls on the East Coast.

While he was a professional skater, three Reggie Barnes skateboards were issued, two with Walker and one with Dogtown. [3] [5] Although greatly overshadowed by his contemporary Rodney Mullen, generally considered the greatest freestyle skateboarder of all time, Barnes was influential in the spread of the sport of skateboarding, especially in the East Coast of the United States.

Early life

Barnes is from Cary, North Carolina and attended Cary High School, graduating in 1979. [6] [4] [2]

Barnes became interested in skateboarding after seeing an article in Sports Illustrated about Gregg Weaver who skated in empty swimming pools in California. [6] In 1976 when he was fourteen years old, Barnes purchased his first skateboard, a Super Surfer with clay wheels, from a neighbor for $2. [3] [1] [7] That was quickly replaced with a used skateboard with metal wheels—one that he says worked better on asphalt. [3] He became a member of the Wizard Skate Team, an amateur team supported by the Wizard Skate Park in Raleigh, North Carolina, but moved on as he progressed. [4]

Barnes' specialty became freestyle; this form of skating that paired music with handstands, wheelies, and kick-flips suited Barnes who enjoyed being a show-off. [4] [8] He spent "hours on end" alone with a boombox, practicing his routines. [3] One of his favorite places to practice was the open air basketball courts at nearby North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. [3] [9]

Amateur skateboarding

Two years after he began skating, Barnes had become one of North Carolina's top skaters, taking sixth place in freestyle in his first National Skateboard Association Contest, the U.S. Open Skateboard Competition in Jacksonville, Florida in March 1978. [4] [10] Barnes "caught the attention of the seasoned professionals" when he skated at the Oceanside Amateur Freestyle Contest in June 1978, despite only coming in fifth place. [11]

Barnes joined the team for Powerflex, a skateboard wheel company based in California, getting equipment and travel expenses in return for participating in demonstrations and competitions. [4] [12] Powerflex offered a salary, but Barnes preferred to remain an amateur because he wanted to make the 1980 Summer Olympic exhibition team. [4]

In September 1978, Barnes participated in the Pepsi/Nova Team Challenge as par tof Tem Powerflex. [12] He had "a dynamic freestyle routine" earning 285 points and placing 1st in the age 16–19 Freestyle contest. Rodney Mullen, generally considered the best freestyle skateboarder of all time, placed 1st in the 13–15 category with 263 points. [12] [13]

Once Barnes learned to ride on his hands, his reputation grew; he was considered a virtuoso on the East Coast by 1979. [2] In the spring of 1979, Pepsi called his parents and asked if their son could tour the country, giving demonstrations as part of the Pepsi-Cola Pro Skateboard Team. [2] [3] Although the call from Pepsi was a complete surprise, it was the era of the cola wars and Pepsi executives thought skateboarding was a good fit to their Pepsi Generation ad campaign. [14] [3] With just a few months of his senior year remaining, Barnes decided to graduate first. [2] [3]

Professional skateboarding

Barnes became a professional skateboarder in June 1979. [2] He skated with the Pepsi Pro Skateboard Team on their second tour, performing as many as five demonstrations a day and 100 demonstrations across the summer. [2] [15] [3] Pepsi was among the first to pay skateboarders well, but getting paid made Barnes a pro which would keep him out of the Olympic Games and other amateur competitions. [3] [16] However, Barnes says he did not feel like a "real pro" because he had yet to win money in competition." [3]

When the summer tour ended, Barnes took the money he earned from Pepsi and moved to Huntington Beach California where he hoped to compete against "real' pros" and win prize money. [3] However, Barnes had picked a challenging time to go pro. [3] Editor of the National Skateboard Review, Di Dootson explains, "By early 1979, the insurance industry had effectively closed many skateparks across the country." [17] This negatively impacted retail shops, competitions, and companies like Barnes sponsor Powerflext which had shut down. [3] [18] [17]

Barnes had to wait six months before there was a flatland contest. [3] Without Powerflex's backing, he had to personally pay the $50 entry fee (equivalent to $178 in today's money) for his first pro competition, the Oasis Freestyle Contest in San Diego in 1980. [15] [19] [3] He came in fifth place, earning just $50/ [15] [19] [3] However, for Barnes, it was about the other competitors rather than the money. [3] Other skaters at the event included standing world champion Chris Chadwick who placed third, and Rodney Mullen who placed first in his first-pro event. Admittedly homesick, Barnes felt he had accomplished his goals and returned to North Carolina. [3]

Barnes signed with sponsor Walker Skateboards in 1980. Bruce Walker was a noted East Coast pro, and his Florida-based company was the first of its kind to be owned and operated by a skater. [18] [20] Walker paid for Barnes to fly to California for competitions, allowing Barnes to live in Wilmington North Carolina where he could focus on both skateboarding and surfing in his home state. [2] [21] [3]

Although he performed many demonstrations for Walker Skateboards, Barnes only competed three times during his first three years as a pro because of the limited number of contests. [8] [15] [3] His second pro event was in 1981 at Magic Mountain where the main attraction was the pro-freestyle event. [15] [22] Barnes came in third place and told Thrasher magazine, "Good energy and crowds, back east they don't have much going on like this, so it's good fun for a change of sceneries. Lots of fun." [22] [15]

The third time he competed as a pro was at the 1984 Sundeck Pro-Am Skateboard Challenge in Kona Skatepark, Florida. [23] [15] Barnes came in first place even though they played the wrong music for his first routine. [15] Later that year, he placed second at the NSA Finals at the Del Mar Skate Ranch in California. [24] However, according to Thrasher magazine, he almost ended up in the third place—a miscalculation of the scores by the judges was caught by Barnes' girlfriend and corrected. [24]

In 1986, a group of skateboarding magazines selected Barnes as one of the top five American freestyle skateboarders. [9] That same year, Barnes was a featured demonstrator at Expo 86, the world's fair held in Vancouver, Canada. [4]

Barnes placed third in freestyle at the World Cup, Münster Monster Mastership, in Germany in 1987 despite the distractions of starting and running Eastern Skateboard Supply and Endless Grind retail store. [1] [4] In a 2010 online conversation, pro-skating superstars Joachim ‘YoYo’ Schulz and Stefan ‘Lillis’ Akesson recalled this competition: Schulz, who came in seventh, wrote, "Check out the results page—a who is who in skateboarding. Some names are still around to this day! Even Reggie Barnes made it over. Stoked!." To which Akesson replied, "4th place for me... I really like the skating of Reggie, and he is a super nice person!" [25]

In 1989, Barnes' rank had slipped to seventh best freestyle skater in the United States. [8] Yet, at the NSA's Savanah Slamma in May 1989, Thrasher noted, "Reggie Barnes, for a man who hadn't skated since the Arizona finals [in December 1988], ripped." [26] The decline in his freestyle skating was a mix of his now being a businessman and his increased interest in street style, which emerged as a modified version of freestyle that was better suited for urban settings. [21] Barnes indicated that it was difficult to complete effectively in freestyle when he was actively demonstrating street style—the two styles even required different skateboards. Barnes competed professionally until 1991. [6]

After retiring from as a pro, Barnes continued to demonstrate and supported new skateboarders through Endless Grind and Eastern Skateboard Supply. [2] [27] [28] November 1, 2000, Barnes was one of three judges for the Freestyle World Championships Contest and Reunion, the first Pro/Am freestyle event in almost ten years, held at the Embarcadero, San Francisco, California. [29] [30] One outcome of this event, which also served as a reunion of former skaters, was the creation of the World Freestyle Skateboard Association. [30]

Sponsors and skateboards

Barnes' first sponsor was Powderflex Wheels. [3] Although their product was good, Powerflex was negatively impacted by the decline in skateboarding, closing by 1980 when Barnes became a pro. [3] Later, Bones Wheels became his sponsor. [3] Converse was another sponsor, and Barnes usually skated in Carolina blue, high-top Chuck Taylor All-Stars. [3] [9] He was also sponsored by Gotcha Sportswear. [3]

As a professional skater signed to Walker Skateboards, Barnes endorsed a line of skateboards. [8] [20] The Reggie Barnes' Pro Freestyle Skateboard was available in 1985. [31] The 1987 model featured tailbones or heavy plastic bumpers under both ends and his signature Anubis graphic—an Egyptian god Anubis on a skateboard, surrounded by hieroglyphics, including a Tar Heel footprint to symbolize his North Carolina origins. [2] [32] [20] [5] [33] The Reggie Barnes' Street Skate came out in 1989 and featured a kicked 4-inch nose and a new graphic of a mummy breaking out of a neon–yellow coffin with an Anubis graphic on the lid. [5] [34] It was 30.25 by 9.625 inches (768.3 by 244.5 mm) compared to the 27 by 7.25 inches (686 by 184 mm) of the freestyle model. [5] Barnes earned $1 (equivalent to $3 in today's money) for each skateboard purchased in his Walker line. [4]

Later, Barnes skated for Dogtown Skateboards who also issued a Reggie Barnes model. [3] The 1990 Reggie Barnes Skateboard graphic is of a cartoon-style trashcan with two hands lifting the lid from inside. [35] At the base of the trashcan is a broken green telephone and fishbones. [35]

Competitions

This incomplete list includes known NSA and international competitions in which Barnes competed.

DateCompetitionLocationPlaceCategorySource
March 24–26, 19781st U.S. Open Skateboard ChampionshipKona Skate Park, Jacksonville, Florida 6thAmateur Freestyle [10] [4]
June 10–11, 19781st Annual Southern Pepsi Team ChallengeSensation Basin, Gainesville, Florida 3rdAmateur Freestyle Junior [10]
June 17–18, 1978Oceanside National Pro-Am Freestyle Contest Oceanside, California 5thAmateur Freestyle Men 16+ Sponsored [36] [37]
Sept. 2–3, 1978Pepsi/Nova Team ChallengeUSA1stAmateur Freestyle Age 16–19 [12]
1980Oasis Freestyle Contest Oasis Skate Park, San Diego, California5thPro–Freestyle [15] [19] [38]
August 30, 1981Magic Mountain Freestyle Contest Valencia, California 3rdPro–Freestyle [15] [22]
May 1984Sundek Pro–Am Skateboard ChallengeKona Skate Park, Jacksonville, Florida 1stPro–Freestyle [15] [23]
August 5, 1984NSA Summer Series Contest

Embarcadero Freestyle Contest

 San Diego, California 3rdPro–Freestyle [39]
1984NSA (National Skateboard Association) Finals Del Mar Skate Ranch, Del Mar, California 2ndPro–Freestyle [24]
July 19–20, 1986Oceanside Freestyle Contest Oceanside, California 5thPro–Freestyle [40]
1987International Freestyle Contest Olympic Velodrome, Carson, California 10thPro–Freestyle [41]
1987Münster Monster Mastership (World Cup) Münster, Germany3rdPro–Freestyle [42]
May 30–31, 1987Canadian International Championship Toronto, Canada6thPro–Freestyle [43] [44]
1988Youth Skate Freestyle Contest Embarcadero, San Francisco, California13thPro–Freestyle [45]
Dec. 10–11, 1988NSA Freestyle Pro Finals Phoenix, Arizona 7thPro–Freestyle [46]
May 19, 1989Savannah Slamma 3 (NSA Pro Tour) Savannah, Georgia Pro–Freestyle [26]

Filmography

In the 1980s, Unreel Productions produced a series of videos documenting the National Skateboard Association's championship competitions. [47] Released in 1986, Skateboard: NSA '86 Summer Series Volume 4: Oceanside Street Attack showed highlights of the Oceanside, California Freestyle Contest, including Barnes' entire fifth place routine. [47]

In 2006, Pantheon Home Video released License to Skate!, a five-part series of how-to videos that featured Barnes and other early pro skaters with Walker, including Chris Baucom, Chuck Dinkins, Joe Humeres, Jim McCall, Tim Morris, Bill Robinson, and Paul Schneider. [48] [49]

Barnes was a stunt double for several films produced in Wilmington, North Carolina, including David Lynch's Blue Velvet (1986), Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive (1986), and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) where he doubled for Donatello riding a skateboard. [50] [8]

Barnes is featured in the East Coast Motions volume 1, a 2018 documentary that features Steve Caballero and Barnes in the 1986 Endless Grind / Bones Brigade Skateboard Showdown in Raleigh, North Carolina, along with the 1985 Record Bar Pro-Am ASP Surf Tour at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. [51]

Other ventures

Eastern Skateboard Supply

In 1985, Raleigh businessmen Skip Flythe approached the 24-year-old Barnes about starting a skateboard distribution company. [3] As the only professional skater in North Carolina, Barnes had the industry contacts, while Flythe had the line of credit. [3] Before entering a deal, Barnes contacted his mentor Bruce Walker, who owned a small distribution business in Florida, along with his skateboard company. [3] According to Barnes, Walker said, "Thank you for asking me, but go ahead and do it. …If you don't do it, someone else will." [3] Years later, when Walker decided to retire, he sold his distribution company to Barnes. [3]

Eastern Skateboard Supply started as a fifty-fifty partnership in 1985, representing just one brand and gradually adding others. [1] [52] [3] After eighteen months, Barnes made an offer to buy out Flythe, becoming the sole owner of Eastern in 1987. [3] To pay Flythe for his half of the business, Barnes had to borrow money from his parents because no bank would give him a loan. [3] By 1990, the company grossed around $5 million (equivalent to $11,199,694 in today's money). [8] As of 2021, Eastern Skateboard Supply's annual sales are $24.64 million in the United States. [53] The company's headquarters are in Wilmington, North Carolina, with additional warehouses in Florida and Texas. [52]

When Tony Hawk decided to produce a lower-priced skateboard to support his Birdhouse team, he contacted his "old friend Reggie Barnes" to produce and distribute Birdhouse to skate shops. [54] Some other brands Eastern carries include Enjoi, Hook-Ups, Plan Band Zero. [1] The company has also diversified and carries surfing supplies. [52]

Eastern works with its brands to promote skating. In 2007, Barnes organized a ten-day European tour of Madrid, Hamburg, Rotterdam, and Amsterdam—reflecting Eastern's expansion into the European market. [55] The tour featured demonstrations by skateboarders from his brands, including Jason Adams, Kyle Berard, Chet Childress, Pat Duffy from Plan B, Adam Dyet, Mike Peterson, and Willy Santos. [55] Pro-skater Pat Duffy from Plan B said, "Reggie Barnes is the biggest distributor on the East Coast and he’s been hooking us up and selling our boards for years, so we may as well go and give a little bit back. And it was such a good tour for ten days, and then in Wilmington, which is where the distribution is, I met up with the whole team, and with that crew plus the Plan B crew, we did a huge Reggie Barnes-Eastern Skate Supply demo. It was INSANITY. [55]

Barnes hires employees who are experienced with skateboarding, including former pro-skater Ray Underhill, once a member of the Bones Brigade with Tony Hawk. [1] [56] As a perk for employees, the Wilmington warehouse includes a 20,000 square feet (1,900 m2) private skatepark. [52] [1] Started as a half-pipe in the warehouse, Eastern's corporate skatepark has one of the biggest bowls on the East Coast, designed and built in birch by Team Pain Skateparks in 2007. [20] To celebrate the completion of the skatepark, Barnes hosted twenty of the country's top skaters for demos and signings for more than 1,000 members of the public. [6] He had succeeded in creating a space where professional skaters could practice and film. [6]

Endless Grind

In 1986, Barnes opened Endless Grind, a retail skateboard shop in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, with two Raleigh businessmen, Homer Croom and Skip Flythe. [52] [4] [2] However, he bought out his partners in 1987. [3] The shop's name refers to the sound the metal axle makes as skateboarders swing around the upper edge of an empty swimming pool. [8] [2] Because of his connections with pro-skaters, Barnes frequently brings famous names to his store for demonstrations. [57] He also sponsors an amateur Endless Grind team and organizes local competitions. [2] [27] [28]

Scott Bourne said, "I was really fortunate in that where I grew up; we had Reggie Barnes’ shop... Because he had such influence, he brought like World Industries and lots of teams; whoever was big came through NC on tour to Endless Grind skate shop. A lot of guys came out of there—Chet Childress, Kenny Hughes, Neal Hendrix. And you had a whole younger generation too, like Lennie Kirk. But Reggie really brought the industry to the middle part of the Eastern U.S." [57] Barnes also brought Bones Brigade member Steve Caballero to Endless Grind, turning it into an opportunity for a Bones Brigade / Endless Grind Skateboard Showdown. [51]

Mike Sinclair of ESPN's Real Street, started as a skater for the Endless Grind Team, eventually working in the store and managing the store-sponsored team for Barnes. [27] [28]

Outrigger canoes

In 2015, Barnes decided to introduce Hawaii's outrigger canoe culture to Wilmington, North Carolina. [58] He purchased two outrigger canoes and placed them at Wrightsville SUP, a rental facility so that he could take his family and friends canoeing. [58] Barnes' efforts were successful—in 2018, the Wrightsville Beach Outriggers Canoe Club had ninety members. [58]

Personal

In the early 1980s, Barnes returned to North Carolina and attended the Cape Fear Technical Institute (now Cape Fear Community College) where he majored in business. [2] He stayed in Wilmington after graduating, and supported his surfing lifestyle with his carpentry and construction business. [2] [3] Soon after, he opened Eastern Skateboard Supply and Endless Grind, both which continue as successful businesses. [53]

Barnes currently lives in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, which is adjacent to Wilmington. [1] [6] He has two children: daughter Lindsey and son Mason who is a professional surfer. [52] [3] Barnes tries to surf every day, runs marathons, and competes in the downhill skateboard slalom. [1]

Image and legacy

Although not known as an innovator like his contemporary Rodney Mullen, Barnes did influence others and many of the next generation of East Coast skaters:

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