Corey Duffel
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Corey Duffel is a skater from Walnut Creek, California. He was born on April 11, 1984 as William Corey Duffel to Steve and Sharon. He is known for his fast-paced skating style, skating big gaps, rails, stairs, riding big wall ride gaps, and any large obstacles like the freeway gap in Cataclysmic Abyss. His skating stance is Goofy
. Duffel still rides for his shop sponsor, Metro, in his hometown.
Duffel has been skating since age ten, and turned pro at age eighteen. His favorite trick is to ollie
and bomb big hills. Duffel also said he always puts a silver screw on the top right corner of the screws holding in his trucks on his skateboard. Some of his career highlights are just getting to ride a skateboard with his friends.
Duffel's sponsors include Foundation Skateboards, Osiris Shoes
, Ambiguous Clothing, Venture Trucks, Mob Grip, Pig Wheels, Metro Skateboard Shop, Armourdillo. CCS magazine, Skullcandy
headphones, and most recently Swiss Bearings.
Duffel is also working with mentor Michael Davis
' Music Is Revolution Foundation, raising money to support music education in public schools. Davis and Duffel have also collaborated on some fashion and skate items for Foundation. He has a tattoo of a spider
on his back, which also appeared on one of his skateboard
graphics. He also has tattoos of his dogs’ names on his arm in a heart with a dagger, and his 7th Seal deck on his rib which features the Grim Reaper playing chess. In an interview in Transworld Magazine, Corey describes it as a battle between him and the reaper. However, in the tattoo, his king has been knocked over. He also sports a 45 record logo on his chest. Corey Duffel Has 2 Pro Model Shoes On Osiris Footwear which are The Duffel and The Corpse.
Goofy
Goofy is a cartoon character created in 1932 at Walt Disney Productions. Goofy is a tall, anthropomorphic dog, and typically wears a turtle neck and vest, with pants, shoes, white gloves, and a tall hat originally designed as a rumpled fedora. Goofy is a close friend of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck...
. Duffel still rides for his shop sponsor, Metro, in his hometown.
Duffel has been skating since age ten, and turned pro at age eighteen. His favorite trick is to ollie
Ollie (skateboarding trick)
The ollie is a skateboarding trick where the rider and board leap into the air without the use of the rider's hands. Particularly on flat ground, it is not intuitively obvious how the liftoff is achieved, making the trick visually striking....
and bomb big hills. Duffel also said he always puts a silver screw on the top right corner of the screws holding in his trucks on his skateboard. Some of his career highlights are just getting to ride a skateboard with his friends.
Duffel's sponsors include Foundation Skateboards, Osiris Shoes
Osiris Shoes
Osiris Shoes is a skate shoe company that was founded in 1996 by Tony Chen, Tony Magnusson, Brian Reid, Doug Weston and Laura Kim. They created the company when they saw a void in the skateboard industry for pro designed and endorsed footwear. -History:...
, Ambiguous Clothing, Venture Trucks, Mob Grip, Pig Wheels, Metro Skateboard Shop, Armourdillo. CCS magazine, Skullcandy
Skullcandy
Skullcandy is a Park City, Utah-based company that markets headphones, earphones, hands free devices, audio backpacks, MP3 players and other products. The company was founded in 2003....
headphones, and most recently Swiss Bearings.
Duffel is also working with mentor Michael Davis
Michael Davis
Michael Davis may refer to:* Michael Davis , bass guitarist, singer, songwriter and music producer* Michael Davis , film director, writer, producer...
' Music Is Revolution Foundation, raising money to support music education in public schools. Davis and Duffel have also collaborated on some fashion and skate items for Foundation. He has a tattoo of a spider
Spider
Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms...
on his back, which also appeared on one of his skateboard
Skateboard
A skateboard is typically a specially designed plywood board combined with a polyurethane coating used for making smoother slides and stronger durability, used primarily for the activity of skateboarding. The first skateboards to reach public notice came out of the surfing craze of the early 1960s,...
graphics. He also has tattoos of his dogs’ names on his arm in a heart with a dagger, and his 7th Seal deck on his rib which features the Grim Reaper playing chess. In an interview in Transworld Magazine, Corey describes it as a battle between him and the reaper. However, in the tattoo, his king has been knocked over. He also sports a 45 record logo on his chest. Corey Duffel Has 2 Pro Model Shoes On Osiris Footwear which are The Duffel and The Corpse.
Video Appearances
- 1998 Think - Dedication
- 2001 Thrasher MagazineThrasher magazineThrasher is a monthly skateboarding magazine founded in 1981 by Kevin Thatcher, Eric Swenson, and Fausto Vitello. It regularly publishes articles , skateboard photography, interviews with professional skateboarders, interviews with and reviews of musical groups, skatepark reviews, and miscellaneous...
- Go For Broke - 2002 Foundation - Madness & Mayhem.........skate till death
- 2002 411 VM - Issue #55
- 2002 Zero - Dying to Live (Friends Section)
- 2003 Pharmacy Boardshop - Chily
- 2004 GlobeGlobe ShoesGlobe International Limited is a global company engaged in the design, marketing and distribution of apparel, footwear and skate hardgoods brands for the action sports and street fashion markets. Globe International products are sold to nearly 100 countries around the world...
- World Cup Skateboarding Street Riot - 2004 Foundation - That’s Life Flick (Last Part)
- 2004 Foundation - European Tour
- 2005 Foundation - Gareth Stehr's Go Go Toe Jam
- 2005 88 Footwear – Destroy Everything Now (Last Part)
- 2006 411 VM – Volume 14, Issue 1
- 2006 Stephen Duffel – Beautiful Breakdown
- 2007 Foundation - Cataclysmic Abyss (2nd Last Part)
- 2007 X-Games - Street contest tyrant and is round
- 2007 Osiris Footwear feed the need (2nd Last Part)
- 2007 chandler tour
- 2008 Congress oF Freaks Osiris
- 2008 Skate And Create Transworld/Osiris [Congress Of Freaks The Sensation Of The Year]
- 2009 Split Clothing - Demons in the Attic (Though the video was in fact produced and shipped, Split Clothing's untimely demise prevented this video from ever being seen, and Duffels footage has been unused)
- 2009 BATB2 (Battle at The Berics2)
- 2009 Transworld SkateboardingTransworld SkateboardingTransworld SKATEboarding is a skateboarding magazine, website, and production company.Founded in 1983, TWS was a response to Thrasher Magazine and specifically to the December 1982 article ‘Skate and Destroy’ written by C.R...
- Right Foot Forward (2nd Last Part) - 2009 Maloof Money Cup 2009