File:Professional skateboarder Mike Smith in Palos Verdes, California (1985). Photo by Ithaka Darin Pappas.jpg

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Professional skateboarder Mike Smith in Palos Verdes, California (1985). Photo by Ithaka Darin Pappas

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English: Professional skateboarder Mike Smith in Palos Verdes, California (1985). Photo by Ithaka Darin Pappas

Mike Smith is an American professional vert skateboarder from Southern California. He is also the founder of Liberty Skates, skateboards. Smith is credited as being the inventor of both the Smith Stop (or Smith Stall) maneuver,(which later became known globally as the Smith Grind) and of the Smithvert, a personalized variation of the invert.

During the course of his competitive career, Smith appeared on the cover of Thrasher Magazine twice; June 1981 and January 1982.

In 2021, Smith was inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame. In an interview filmed for the Hall of Fame's official website, world champion skateboarder Tony Hawk[11] spoke of Smith, "It was so fascinating to watch him. He had such an iconic style. The way he did tricks just became, his tricks. He did a grind, but he dropped his rail, no one did that before...Smith Grind.
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Photo taken at an empty swimming pool at Lunada Bay in Palos Verdes. The former home of Farrah Fawcett.

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