Natas Kaupas was one of my absolute favorite skateboarders and was even my inspiration to start skateboarding and competing.
Here is a picture of Natas in his movie “streets of fire”
Natas Was a very inspirational skateboarder and still continues to help the skateboarding community by donating money to new skateparks being built.
Natas was one of the first skateboarders to do flat ground ollies which revolutionized the way people skateboard today, without him helping make this trick so popular there wouldn’t a starting ground to create tricks like the kickflip or the heel flip or every variation of those.
A fun fact about Natas is that his skateboards and clothing were banned from some schools because his name backwards is actually Satan, but this wasn’t meant like that Natas is actually a Swedish name.