Per Nils Welinder (born April 17, 1962) is an entrepreneur and a former professional skateboarder.
During the 1980s he achieved international fame as a freestyle skater and was a leading member of the elite Powell-Peralta skate team known as the Bones Brigade.
He had a number of influential video parts with Powell during the 1980s, a series of signature models, and roles in several Hollywood movies.
Welinder also has the unique distinction of being the only person to have ever beaten Rodney Mullen in a professional skate contest.
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