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RICH MONDAY'S LONG ROAD TO PRO SKATEBOARDING

Rich Monday competed as an amateur skateboarder since as early as 1977 at age 10 years old at the Heat Wave Skateboard Park in Modesto California. The skate park was Rich Mondays home away from home, his family used the park and it's managers as baby sitter for young Rich Monday. Rich Monday mom had a skateboarding half pipe ramp built in his back yard that hosted many local amateurs and pros that traveled skateboard through Northern California.

For the next 10 years up until 1987 Rich Monday traveled as a sponsored amateur skateboarder from town to town with his skate friends "The Rumble Pool Crew" and they became known as the Mo-Town Boys across the golden state. For Rich Monday competing in events was his goal and this meant Southern California skate parks, which were the center of the skateboard community and the place to make it as a pro skateboarder. Some of his sponsors were Uncle Wiggley Skateboards, NHS flow team, Vans Doren Shoe Company and the Santa Cruz Surf & Skate Shop. Rich Monday won his first contest in Fresno California and this drove him to excel further by becoming a member of the CASL and later the NSA in 1985.

Rich Monday got married and parted from the Modesto skate crew, but he was far from being finished with competitive skateboarding. After doing a big contest called the Powell Pow Wow, he was offered a job as a traveling road skater with the Vans Shoe Skateboard Team as a professional skateboarder. The team traveled from town to town doing demos in parking lots, in parks and at fairs, this was a labor intense job position that lasted two years.

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CAREER TIMELINE:

Rich Monday was married in 1990 to his wife Melody and still skateboards weekly with local friends and retired professionals from his past.

Rich Monday received his optical optician license and worked in the field 15 years.

Rich Monday holds a patent for a golf apparel product called "Clydesdale's" and holds shares in the company Fore Tae Golf inc..

Richard has written and publish two books for California living and is the creator of the zine "STAMINA."

Rich Monday runs his own indie publishing business called D.I.Y Publishing and he writes zines and at online services as his career of choice.

Rich Monday works from home part time as a skateboarding managing agent, helping young talented skateboarders get sponsored in the industry of skateboarding.

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