CHRIS HASLAM ALMOST ROUND THREE

Chris Haslam (born December 19th, 1980) is a Canadian professional skateboarder, originally from Ontario who now resides in Richmond, BC. Haslam started skating in 1994 while living with his parents in Singapore, and turned pro in 2004. His current sponsors are Almost Skateboards, Independent Trucks (Independent Trucks and Clothing), Momentum Wheel Co., IS Designs, Vestal Watches, Dakine, CTI and Globe Shoes. He is mostly known for doing a wide variety of innovative tricks and is often compared with Daewon Song or Rodney Mullen. Haslam has been gaining increasing attention and popularity since his part in the Almost: Round Three video. Chris won the Reader’s Choice in the the 7th Annual Transworld Skateboarding Awards in 2005.[3] In August of 2006 he was voted the winner of the Vs 411VM competition. [4] This was a competition where tricks performed by a number of professional skateboarders were voted on by the public. The winners of each heat went on to the next round.