Neil Blender is probably hands down one of the most influential skaters of all time! Not only was Neil a great skater but he was a great artist as well. Neil Blender was pretty much the face of G&S skateboards through the 80’s not only with his skating but with his artistic ability. When I think of G&S skateboards the first person that comes to mind is Neil Blender and all the great board graphics he designed. He was one of the pioneers of skaters doing their own art (artist/skaters) in the industry along with guys like Chris Miller and Mark Gonzales. Neil Blender had a smooth style about his skating and combine that with the fact that he always looked like he was having a great time! You could tell that he just loved skateboarding period! Neil was responsible for inventing a lot of tricks like the lien air, which is just his name backwards and even street tricks like the no-comply. Guys like Neil Blender, Lance Mountain and Mark Gonzales made skateboarding more interesting and fun for everyone in their creative care free style of skating. In 1990 Neil Blender, Chris Carter and Mike Hill started the Alien Workshop in Dayton Ohio. They went away from the main stream California system and made Alien Workshop a successful brand that is still killing it today and is responsible for pros like Rob Dyrdek and Michigans own Josh Kalis. They showed skating that you didn’t have to be located in California to have a sick skateboard company. I think this allowed skating to expand and allow kids to feel more connected with skateboarding especially kids in the Midwest states. I hope you enjoy checking out all these pics of Neil as much as I have. I threw a couple ads from skateboard mags that I vividly remember seeing a lot back in those days. I also put a few sick street and vert pics of Neil and some of his boards and graphics he designed. I also threw in the album cover that he did for Dinosaur Jr.s With out a sound. Oh and I found this sick pick of the Chin ramp with Neil standing off to the side looking on just in case you were wondering. It’s great to see Neils influence in skateboarding still to this day! Speaking of which Neil has a Nike Sb collaboration Dunk low coming out this summer along with some shirts as well. So look for that stuff to hit the doors here and pick some stuff up and support skateboarding!! Support Neil Blender!!