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Luigi Giovanni Iannucci (born 9 September 1973), known professionally as Giovanni Iannucci, is an influential American skateboarder. Iannucci is widely known in the skateboard community for his effortless skating style.'I'd rather watch Gino push.'

Early Life
Born Luigi Giovanni Iannucci in Long Island, New York, he took his grandfather's nickname, Gino, to tell him apart from two cousins also called Luigi. He grew up in an area of Westbury, Long Island known locally as Poet's Corner because several streets are named after famous writers, including the novelist Charles Dickens, and the poets John Dryden and John Greenleaf Whittier. He started to skateboard in about 1987. His early influences included Natas Kaupas and the Santa Monica Airlines Skateboard team based in Santa Monica, California, and also H-Street pro Matt Hensley. Quit skateboarding to play ice hockey for a few months in the late 1980s.

Chocolate Skateboards
Yeah Right part in 2004 Hot Chocolate Signed on Nike Colourway on Nike. The Nike SB Dunk High Pro Gino

Owned a skate shop in Long Island named Poets, }} which closed down in.

FA Skateboards
launched a high-fashion skateboarding clothing brand, Poets, with graphic designer Brenden Wyant, in early 2018.

Influence and style
'I'd rather watch Gino push.' backside 180 and 360 ollie

{{Quote|text=The first thing that comes to mind is that style comes naturally. It’s nothing forced. You see a lot of people out there faking their style and you can always tell. They’ll land their trick and end up doing something with their arms or whatever and you can tell it’s completely exaggerated.

Personal Life
Trouble with drinking, led to two, before he gave up alcohol in. "Yeah. I got two D.W.I.s, here in New York. The second one is a felony charge. I had to do some time in county jail, and when I got out I was on house arrest. I had to wear the house arrest anklet for 60 days. They monitor where you are from the anklet. You can be out of your house only to go to work. Luckily skating is my profession. So I could go anywhere, so long as I was home by six. It still sucked though."

Videography
yeah Right Hot Chocolate