SLS Picks: A Closer Look | SLS

Yesterday it was introduced that Louie Lopez and Tyshawn Jones are this yr’s SLS Picks. You ought to be accustomed to these guys as they each launched standout elements in main movies final yr. Clearly, each Louie and Tyshawn deserve a shot at making it into SLS. However we wished to take a better take a look at why these guys have been chosen and what they’ll be bringing to the 2017 season.

Hailing from Hawthorne, CA Louie Lopez is a baby prodigy. He began skating on the age of 5. Fourteen years later he was professional for Flip. Louie grew up within the public eye—showing in movies and magazines since he was just a little child. His physique of labor speaks for itself. Louie’s first solo half was in Flip’s now traditional Extraordinarily Sorry (2009). He was simply 14. He’s persistently produced proper up till final yr’s epic from Volcom titled Holy Stokes!. Alongside the way in which, Louie has picked up main endorsements together with Converse, Indy, Ricta, and Rockstar Vitality. In relation to methods, Louie does what he needs. He can go huge and get technical. And his model is at all times extraordinarily fluid and exact. Louie has skated as an SLS alternate previously—and he simply missed making it into SLS in 2016 on the Professional Open in Barcelona. Louie’s shot at skating an SLS tour has been a very long time coming. 2017 is his yr to indicate the world what he’s received.

Tyshawn is actually a product of New York Metropolis. He was the primary child despatched by the Harold Hunter Basis to Woodward Skate Camp. Clearly, this can be a success story for that group contemplating Tyshawn’s present place within the trade. At 13, Tyshawn started venturing from his dwelling within the Bronx to Downtown Manhattan the place he was found by Supreme. A yr later the world would get a glimpse of what Tyshawn is able to in Supreme’s first full-length video, Cherry (2014). Tyshawn’s unreal show at New York’s legendary Courthouse ledge to drop earned him the nickname the Courthouse Child. It additionally put him on the radar of Jason Dill and Anthony Van Engelen’s Fucking Superior model—which he turned professional for final yr. Alongside the way in which, TJ was additionally picked up by adidas and put out one hell of an element of their first video, Aways Days (2016). Tyshawn’s different sponsors embrace Spitfire, Thunder, Bones Bearings, and Hardies {Hardware}—a model that he based along with his mates in 2015. At simply 18, Tyshawn is a rising star in skateboarding. It’s going to be fascinating to see what he brings to the SLS course this yr.

Louie Lopez in Holy Stokes!

Tyshawn Jones in Away Days