Name - Matthew Edward King
Age – 23
Sex - Male
Date of birth - 12-12-79
Eyes - Hazel Brown
Hair - Blondie Brown
Height - 5ft 7in
Shoe size – 8uk
Chest size – 38
Inside leg – 30½
Waist – 31½
Collar – 14½
Weight 65.5 kilos
Hobbies - Matt enjoys all aspects
of skating, Snow Blading, Trampolining , Heely`s. pogo-sticks and most outdoor activities.
Sponsors –Switch up clothing,
Skater’s Paradise, Tsp Clothing, Redbull (flow), Heelys uk, Rollerblade uk
(flow), Fizziks uk (flow) and Matt has a contract with Kahuna Watches. Matt
turns down many sponsors so he can continue to do fair reviews in the mags but
is supplied stuff by all the companies. He has also helped design some skates
and the companies sometimes turn to him for ordering advice and info on what’s
new.
Competition wins - in the last 8
years Matt has entered over 50 Extreme Comps both home and away and has been placed
in the top 4 in nearly all of them.
Recently Matt turned Professional at the ASA World Amateur Championships in Los Angeles. He is now qualified to skate on the ASA 2003 Pro Street Tour alongside other top pros.
Shows - Matt helped choreographed
and starred in a West End show called Born to Perform in Aid of the Roy Castle
appeal for Cancer at The Mermaid Theatre. He has also done fashion shows around
the country with some famous models in locations such as The Natural History
Museum and recently did a show in Spitalfields market for Salon Selectives.
Add to that Matt’s team TSP was
hired for to put on a ramp demo at the BBC’S Big Bash in Birmingham.
Matt has also recently toured round Europe demonstrating Heely`s skate shoes.
Video Appearances - Matt has had
sections in or appeared in Inside Edge, Hoax 4, Heysham Vid, Artificial
Intelligence, Pants, Skids, G, Lost Cities, Dirty Magic 2 Dirty Magic 3,
Parklife, DNA’s British Intelligence Lords of the Movement and also has his own section in TBTV6.
TV appearances
- Matt has been on TV many times some of these include Wackaday
(contestant on the show) , Desire (documentary on fashion), The Really Useful
Show, Sky Sports 1,2 and 3(including a documentary about Rollerblading which
Matt supplied footage, info and was heavily featured), The Totally Friday Show
(doing stunts and teaching how to skate), Nickelodeon, BBC’s Smart (an art
program him and his brothers used over 300 skates to make one big skate),
Channel 5’s RAD( three separate times featuring skating, testing skates and
being interviewed) , The Children’s Channel ( doing stunts), GMTV, MTV’S
Singled Out ( three separate times plus adverts he was a contestant on the
show), Fox Sports, Watchdog Network various news programmes and was recently
heavily featured in BBC’s Culture Fix (a documentary on street style) shown on
Sky Digital.
Music Videos
Blairs “Have Fun Go Mad” and
Cleopatra’s “I Want You Back”.
Fariq`s "Drop the Bomb".
Adverts
Matt played a small extras part
in the Midland banks new ad, he also had walk on part (skateboarding) in the
Quick Burger ad (Quick Burger is chain of French fast food restaurants) which is
currently aired in France, is featured in MTV’S new ad encouraging the use of
safety belts across Europe and just did an extras part for the Littlewoods Pools
add featured on Sky Sports 1 this March 11th.
Films
Matt played an Extras part in
films such as “Incognito” starring Rod Steiger, 2000’s summer Blockbuster
“Janice Beard” staring Patsy Kensit, the “Leprechaun” starring Whoopii
Goldberg and Roger Daltry and “Birthday Girl” starring Tom Cruise.
TV Series
Matt recently played as small
background role in a new series called Active Defence that stars Ross Kemp
playing the part of a private detective.
Internet
Matt is featured on the Kahuna
web page and has done interviews with the Worth Global Style Network three
separate times. Each time they featured a chunky amount of words and loads of
pics.
Newspaper’s - Matt has been in
the Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Evening Standard and the Sunday
Telegraph plus he has been mentioned in a few more and recently wrote a whole
page of in-line skate reviews for the Sunday Times add to that he just had a
full page interview in the Frankfurt post.
Books – Matt appeared in and
supplied information for Aladdin books “The Fantastic Foldout Book of In-line
skating” and Jeremy Evans “In-line
Skating ” sold world-wide.
Internet - Matt is featured on the Switch-Up skate tour video which you can find on the Skate UK website.
Magazines - Matt is nearly always
featured in the top UK skater magazines and used to write a regular column
for Unity and Inline Skatermag. But has also written articles in DNA, Total
Skater, Sk8 UK and German inline mag and is featured in the new and old Argos
catalogue, on Kahuna Brochure’s and in adverts for Kahuna in different skate
and lifestyle magazines. Matt
has also been on the front cover of Unity and Freenation
magazine.
He recently had a full-page
picture in Urban Magazine sold in France and in Americas Box magazine.
Matt was also featured on the
front cover December 1998 Unity mag and had a 9 page profile.
Add to that he also had double
page spread with interview in a recent Freespin (yo-yo) magazine.
Personal Achievements - Matt feels his greatest achievements have been setting up and part owning Skater's Paradise (A very successful chain of skate shops), doing 3 and more switches (changing moves while sliding down a rail) on a very large kinked handrail in Waterloo which goes down 3 sets of stairs, being the only one in the country to do a massive kinked handrail in Ilford, having his own A2 poster which comes free with skates and mags, Having his own Pro T-shirt for Sub 28 being the only one to grind the whole 70 meter long handrail in Laussanne Switzerland and Getting Rated British Skater of the year for 97 in German Inline Mag , creating his own move `The Kingflip` which is now known worldwide.
2001 - Matt and Heidi were married in Las Vegas on skates and Matt came straight out of the Church and grinded the stair rail in his wedding suit!!!
Matt attempted the Leap of Faith three times but did not land it and will be getting revenge Summer 2003.
Other stuff - just ask any extreme skate company or aggressive skater out on the street they're bound to of heard of Matt King!