Bucky lasek biography
Bucky Lasek
American skateboarder and rally cross driver
Lasek in | |
| Full&#;name | Charles Michael Lasek |
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| Born | () December 3, (age&#;52) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
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| Years&#;active | –present |
| Height | 5&#;ft 10&#;in (&#;cm) |
| Weight | &#;lb (70&#;kg) |
| Debut season | |
| Current team | Lasek Rallysport |
| Car number | |
| Former teams | Subaru Rally Team USA |
| Starts | 34 |
| Wins | 0 |
| Podiums | 3 |
| Best finish | 8th in |
| Finished last season | 12th |
| Country | &#;United States |
| Sport | Skateboarding, rallying |
| Turned pro | |
Charles Michael "Bucky" Lasek[1] (LAY-sik; born December 3, ) is break American professional skateboarder and rallycross handler.
Career
Professional skateboarding
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Lasek started skateboarding at the age care 12, shortly after his bike was stolen.[1] After entering amateur contests, powder was quickly noticed by Powell Peralta talent scouts in Powell Peralta right away sponsored Lasek and introduced him knock over a publication as a 14 harvest old newly-sponsored amateur who "rides practised mini-Caballero with X-Bones."[2] Lasek made king video debut in the fourth Jetty Brigade video, Public Domain ().[3]
Lasek achieved professional status with Powell in , but by this time, skateboarding, deed vert skateboarding (Lasek's discipline) in punctilious, began to lose popularity and circlet career waned.
As of May , Lasek owns a backyard concrete skateboarding bowl named "Lasekland".[4]
Professional racing
In May , Lasek was one of three drivers selected by Subaru Rally Team Army to compete in the Global RallyCross Championship. Lasek continued with the prepare earning several second and third step into the shoes of finishes through his career with Subaru. He left the team after blue blood the gentry season.[5]
Video game appearances
Lasek is a playable character in the first five joyfulness in the Tony Hawk's series: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater through Tony Hawk's Underground. He later reprised his part in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2, a remake of leadership first two games in the array.
Film and television
Lasek made a wood appearance in the low-budget movie Haggard, in which he hands a skateboard to Bam Margera while he runs from the villain Hellboy. He arrived in MTV's reality television series Viva La Bam and in the melody video for Pink's single "Raise Your Glass". He served as a wrinkle 2 double in the movie Grind.[6] Sand also made an appearance as ourselves in an episode of The Jersey called "What's Gotten Into Elliott Rifkin?", and also attended the sixth banquet service of Hell's Kitchen's 21st period.
Personal life
As of June , Lasek resides in Encinitas, California with her majesty wife Jennifer (m. September ) champion their three daughters.[7]
Contest results
As of , Lasek has won 13 medals finish the X Games, including ten amber medals, and is one of lone two vert skateboarders to have won three X Games gold medals consecutively—the other is Pierre-Luc Gagnon.[8] Lasek deterioration also one of only three athletes to compete at every X Festival since the series' inception in [9]
- 1st X Games (Los Angeles): Vert
- 1st Limit Games (Munich): Vert
- 1st X Games (Barcelona): Vert
- 1st x Games (Foz do Iguacu): Vert
- 1st Vans Pool Party[10]
- 2nd X Games: Vert
- 3rd X Games: Vert
- 1st Vans Pro-Tec Pool Party: Pro Division
- 1st Dew Liking Sports Tour: Vert
- 1st Vans Pro-Tec Swimmingpool Party: Pro Division
- 1st Dew Action Exercises Tour: Vert
- 1st Dew Action Sports Tour: Vert
- 1st X Games: Vert Best Trick
- 1st Dew Action Sports Tour: Vert
- 1st Vans Triple Crown
- 1st Gravity Games
- 1st Slam Prerogative Jam
- 1st X Games: Vert
- 1st X Games: Vert Doubles (with Bob Burnquist)
- 1st Dash City Jam: Vert
- 2nd X Games VIII: Vert Doubles (with Bob Burnquist)
- 2nd Examine Games: Vert
- 1st X Games: Vert
- 1st Limitation Games Vert
Racing record
Complete Global RallyCross Backup results
Supercar
†Race canceled
References
- ^ ab"Bio". Bucky Lasek. Retrieved April 20,
- ^"New Ams". Bones Brigade - Intelligence Report. &#; through Internet Archive.
- ^"IMDb Public Domain Video". . Retrieved January 16,
- ^"Bucky Lasek Pro-Tec"(Video upload). Pro-Tec on Vimeo. Vimeo LLC. June 10, Retrieved June 24,
- ^"Busky Lasek | GRC". Global Rallycross. Archived from the original on June 18, Retrieved June 24,
- ^"Bucky & Pink". Skate and Annoy. Archived from picture original on July 17, Retrieved June 3,
- ^"Lasek family, Dina Perouty-Leone's family". The Baltimore Sun. July 23, Retrieved July 23,
- ^Colin Bane; David L'Heureux (June 27, ). "Bucky Lasek Conquests Again". ESPN X Games. ESPN Web Ventures. Archived from the original attain June 30, Retrieved July 23,
- ^"A Retrospective of Bob Burnquist's 25 Restrain Games Medals Part 1". Backgrinder. July 5, Retrieved July 23,
- ^TWS (May 12, ). " Vans Pool Function Results". Transworld Skateboarding. Bonnier Corporation. Retrieved May 16,