Bob Burnquist
· Started off the winning TransWorld's Best Vert awards for three years in a row.
· Then he spent the rest of the decade winning medal after medal in skateboard vert contests like the X Games.
· Easily one of the world's best vert skaters, and he has proven that in the contest arena over and over again, and he's still competing.
· Started foundation to help save the world, by ecological awerness through his popularity.
Daewon Song
· Daewon Song is a genius technical street skater.
· Known from his series of videos that he came out with Rodeny Mullen VS Daewon Song, Rounds 1, 2 and 3. Demonstrating there is amazing talent who wont be seen in the X Games.
· For pushing the limits of what technical street skateboarding can do, and for reminding the world that contests aren't the heart of skateboarding, Daewon Song is one of the top skaters of the decade.
Elissa Steamer
· Dominating women of women's street skateboarding for the last 10 years.
· In 1999, Steamer won the women's street contest at the Slam City Jam - this was the first female-only contest held at a World Cup Skateboarding event.
· Steamer was the first female to have a pro model skateboard, the first to have a pro model skateboarding shoe (etnies), and the first and only female skater in any of the Tony Hawk video games!
Jamie Thomas
· Not only present in this list for his skating, but for his dominating role in skateboard industry.
· Jamie Thomas was well known for his Leap of Faith in 1997 (a 20 foot drop), but it has been over the last 10 years that he has really taken over.
· He owns Black Box Distribution (parent company of Zero, Mystery, Fallen, and $lave), and has brought a lot of his Christian gothic imagery to his designs, while not shoving his faith down people's throats. As well as showing that one can a skate company with morals and ethics.