San Leandro, CA – Skate Shop News: Torey Pudwill Creates A Bigger Bang

Torey Pudwill was born in Simi Valley, California. As a teenager, Pudwill would spend his time skateboarding with his friend Arturo at the Skatelab in Simi Valley, California. Five years after the facility opened, Pudwill was featured in the Skatelab “all-time accident report” and owner Todd Huber explained in 2009: “Torey had 117 accidents—more than anyone else on there and he was only thirteen.” It was during his teenage years that Pudwill originated the Grizzly Griptape brand.

Pudwill was around 14 years of age when his part appeared in the 2005 Shorty’s video How To Go Pro. Shorty’s was Pudwill’s first board sponsor and following the demise of the brand, he was a flow rider for Alien Workshop for “at least a year”. Pudwill was then invited to join the Almost team by company co-owner Daewon Song—who had first made contact after the cessation of Shorty’s—during the pair’s time as DVS team riders. Pudwill accepted Song’s offer and achieved professional status in August 2008 during his tenure at Almost. Following the announcement that Pudwill had decided to join the Plan B team, Schulte was announced as a new Almost rider and a short video part accompanied the announcement.

An official announcement was released in March 2010, stating that Pudwill had joined the Plan B Skateboards team, alongside skateboarders such as Danny Way, Colin McKay, Ryan Sheckler, PJ Ladd and Paul Rodriguez. A welcome video that was published on the Internet also accompanied the announcement. Following his change to Plan B, Pudwill used some of the footage he had filmed while at Almost for his first-ever video part in a TransWorld SKATEboarding magazine production. The video, Hallelujah, was released to the public on July 28, 2010, and also featured professional skateboarders Ryan Decenzo, Pete Eldridge, Taylor Bingaman, and Tyler Bledsoe.

Pudwill’s first full video part for Plan B, “Torey Pudwill’s Big Bang!,” was released on July 4, 2014, as a free DVD with an issue of Thrasher. The video was also released on the Thrasher website and YouTube channel, and as of December 2, 2014, the latter received over four million views.

Fast forward to present day, Torey has started Thank You Skateboards with long time friend Daewon Song. Through injuries and over a decade later, Torey has just released his full part Bigger Bang! The wait was not in vain, this part has all that you would expect form Torey! Don’t sleep on this part or his new company Thank you!!