Ray Barbee

Ray Barbee is an American skateboarder from San Jose, California, and one of the first famous African-American skaters. He started skateboarding in 1984, when he was in seventh grade. Barbee was on the cutting edge of skateboarding in the late '80s, being a leading pioneer of applying freestyle/flatland tricks to street, technical ollie combinations and numerous no comply variations. He had memorable video parts in the Powell Peralta videos "Publ... more
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  • 1989
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