1. Mike McGill was born on 1964 and is an American skateboarder who is best known for inventing the trick "McTwist", an inverted 540 degree mute grab aerial.
10 Facts About Mike McGill
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Mike McGill first performed the manoeuvre on a wooden half-pipe in Rattvik, Sweden in 1984 and then at the Del Mar Skate Ranch's concrete bowl, called The Keyhole, when he returned to the United States.
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Mike McGill recounted his experience in Sweden in a 2004 Thrasher article:.
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Mike McGill was a member of the "Bones Brigade", an elite team of skateboarders that was sponsored by Powell Peralta, who dominated professional skateboarding for a large part of the 1980s.
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Mike McGill appeared with Peralta and other Bones Brigades members during the 2012 promotional screenings of the Peralta-directed Bones Brigade documentary, Bones Brigade: An Autobiography.
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Mike McGill mainly skated vertical, and when street skating began to dominate the industry, Mike McGill turned to the business side of skating.
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Mike McGill started his own skateboard company, "Chapter Seven", and opened his own skate park.
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In 2006, Mike McGill was featured in a commercial for the Discovery Channel as the inventor of the McTwist.
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Mike McGill has teamed up with Powell Peralta and reissued his signature boards from the 1980s.
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Mike McGill had an acting role as Tommy 'D' in the 1984 Jimmy McNichol action movie Escape from El Diablo, together with fellow skateboarder Steve Caballero.