Tag: Banzai skateboards

  • Lynnette Fraas

    Lynnette Fraas

    Lynnette Fraas was a competitive freestyle skateboarder in the 1970s, sponsored by Banzai skateboards, whose name started to appear in contest results in 1976. She is from San Diego and attended Mission Bay Senior High (1978-1980). At the 2nd Annual Amateur Freestyle contest in Oceanside on July 11, 1976 there were 2000 spectators according to…

  • Leilani Kiyabu

    Leilani Kiyabu

    Leilani Kiyabu (Glasheen) was called an overnight success in her “Who’s Hot” feature by Jim Goodrich in the December 1978 issue of Skateboarder. “Lani” was born in Germany, then moved to Hawaii where she learned to skate at age 11, but without support, she set it aside until her family moved to San Diego, where…