Jeff Phillips (skateboarder), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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American skateboarder
Date of Birth: 11-Jun-1963
Date of Death: 25-Dec-1993
Profession: skateboarder
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Jeff Phillips (skateboarder)
- Jeff Phillips (June 11, 1963 – December 25, 1993) was an American professional skateboarder. Phillips grew up in Dallas, Texas and started skateboarding at 10 years old.
- In 1973, his grandmother Annice gave him a Shark skateboard with steel wheels.
- Jeff and his father, Charles, crafted skateboards at home out of scraps of birch and plywood.
- As a teenager he frequented “Wizard Skateboard Park” in Garland and then a few years later “Skate Time” at Bachman Lake, in Dallas featuring the infamous “Blue Ramp/Clown Ramp”.In March 1986, Phillips placed third at the opening NSA Pro-Am event in Houston.
- Later in December, he claimed a victory at the NSA Pro-Am Final in Anaheim, defeating competition favourite, Tony Hawk.
- The next year, Phillips featured on the cover of Thrasher Magazine's March 1987 issue.
- During his career, Phillips featured in magazine adverts for such brands as Sims Skateboards, G&S and Tracker Trucks.Phillips popularized the skateboarding trick that he called the 'Phillips 66'.
- The trick was adapted from the Fakie 360 invert, which Phillips credited to Shawn Peddie.In the late 1980s, as Phillips' career as a competitive sponsored skater was winding down, he bought his own indoor skateboard park and named it 'The Jeff Phillips Skateboard Park'.
- Jeff ran the park with fellow Zorlac skater, Billy Smith.
- However, by 1993 the park had developed financial difficulties which lead Phillips to consider selling it. The park stayed closed for several months after Phillips' death until Charles Kieser, an in-line skater who'd known Jeff, rented and renovated the park, recovered some of the old ramps and re-opened in April 1994 as Rapid Revolutions.
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