Mark Appleyard
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Mark Appleyard November 11, 1982 Oakville, Ontario, Canada |
| Residence | Huntington Beach, CA |
| Occupation | Professional Skateboarder |
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) |
| Weight | 160 lb (73 kg) |
Mark Appleyard (born November 11, 1982) is a "goofy"-footed (his right foot is placed at the front when riding a skateboard) professional skateboarder. His favorite trick is a backside smith grind.
Appleyard was born in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, and attended Lord Elgin High School in Burlington, Ontario.
Appleyard began skateboarding at the age of ten and grew up solely skating skate parks such as Hamilton, Ontario's "Beasley Bowl" (a park that Appleyard was so fond of, he recently had its name tattooed on his leg); he eventually skated the streets of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Appleyard's first major skateboard deck sponsor was Birdhouse, followed by Habitat, distributed by the DNA company that is also responsible for distributing Alien Workshop. While sponsored by this company that he filmed his inaugural video part for a major skateboard brand. The video is entitled Photosynthesis and was released in 2000; in the same year, Appleyard was featured in the Transworld Skatebaording video i.e. that Daewon Song also provided a video part for (both skateboarders were identified by the Transworld Skateboarding magazine as two of the most influential skateboarders of the decade spanning 2000 to 2010).
Appleyard is a senior team rider for the Globe skate shoe company that originated in Australia in 1994. Appleyard has released multiple signature shoe models for the brand, such as the "Vagrant" and "The Eaze". In February 2013, "The Mahalo" vulcanized model was launched and was described by the Globe promotional department as "easy like Sunday morning"—a short film was published as part of the shoe launch and features Appleyard skateboarding in a variety of street-based locations.
Following his departure from Habitat, Appleyard joined the Flip team and appeared in all three videos that comprise the "Apology" series—Sorry, Really Sorry, and Extremely Sorry. Appleyard's eventual departure from Flip, to join Element, generated a substantial amount of controversy, as members of the industry, including fellow Flip team riders, expressed disdain at Appleyard's decision; the move was viewed as a choice that was solely motivated by monetary factors. In an October 2010 interview, Appleyard explained his decision:
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