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A Look At Past Years Traveling On A Long Skateboarding Road Trip

Rich Monday started competing as an amateur skateboarder at age 10 yrs. old in 1977. He was a local at the Heat Wave Skate Park. The skate park and competition was Rich Mondays home away from home. Rich Monday had a skateboard ramp in his back yard that hosted many local pros and traveling skateboard professionals as well.

For the next 12 year up until 1992 Rich Monday traveled as an amateur skateboarder and became a member of the CASL. Rich Monday and the Mo-Town Rumble Crew traveled form town to town visiting and competing at most of the California half pipes, including the infamous Joe Lopes Ramp where Rich Monday and friends became locals. Southern California skate parks is where the skateboarding action was and to become a professional skateboarder Monday knew he had to make it there if he were going to fulfill his dreams of professional skateboarding. Rich Monday joined the NSA and picked up a couple small sponsors from Santa Cruz Board Shop, Valley Sporting Goods, Hales Frame Gallery. He got a break when Tony Magnusson sponsored Rich by offering Uncle Wiggley skateboard decks for him to use as he pleased.

Rich Monday took a job as a traveling road professional with the Van Doren Shoes Skateboard Team. He traveled through out California, Oregon and Washington states doing demonstration as a professional skateboarder. The job entailed transporting a half pipe skateboard ramp from town to town doing demos at fairs, parks, skate shops and sporting goods stores.

Rich Monday was married in 1990 to his wife Melody and still skateboarded competitively into the early 1990's, skating in NSA events such as the "Powell Skate Zone" contests which held pro events each year.

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Bringing Things Up To Date

Rich Monday received his optical optician license and worked as a lab and retail manager at his own Lens Crafters chain store in Hayward California. Later he continued in optics with positions in quality control and as later as a managing production technician for Hoya Optical. This trade lasted 16 years for Rich Monday.

Rich Monday had to suddenly leave his career behind when his wife Melody of 20 years had liver failure followed by a brain lesion (stroke) at a young age of 38 years old. This forced Rich Monday leave careers and investments behind and began acting as a full time care giver to his wife Melody.

Rich Monday works from home as a freelance writer and owns a D.I.Y. publishing business, he works part time as a skateboard managing agent and helps young European skateboard kids with talent get sponsored in the highly competitive skateboard industry.

You can still find Rich Monday skateboarding every week at the age of 47 years young, and he writes a popular radical publishing zine titled STAMINA, which you can find online at www.diy-publishing.com.

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