About Colin McKay
Colin McKay was born on August 29, 1975 and is a Canadian professional skateboarder with an estimated net worth of $1 million. Colin McKay grew up in the skateboarding mecca of Vancouver, BC Canada. He started skating at the age of 10, but says he had to work to get good at it. In 1986 he saw Tony Hawk at the Vancouver Expo, and Colin began to think about becoming a pro skater. From 2001 to 2004, Colin has 8 serious shoulder surgeries, but still kept skating professionally. Now, he and long time friend Danny Way are building homes and a skateboarding compound on Kauai, for filming, skating, and enjoying life.
Colin McKay Interesting Fact:
Colin McKay has a little minpin dog named Reggie, who goes with him everywhere (you see Reggie in the DC video, during the part with Danny Way practicing on the DC ramps).
Colin McKay Basic Bio Information:
- Name: Colin McKay
- Gender: Male
- Hometown: Vancouver, BC Canada
- Date of Birth: August 29, 1975
- Family: Single
- Occupation: Pro Skater, Co-Owner of RDS Skate Supply / Center Distribution
- Began Skating: 1986
- Began Competing: 1987
- Turned Pro: 1992
- Favored Discipline: Vert
- Stance: Goofy
- #1 Sponsor: DC Shoes
Colin McKay Skateboarding Style and Strengths:
Colin focuses on inventing and pulling off complicated technical combinations that no one has ever seen before. This “best trick” style makes his skateboarding perfect for skateboarding videos, and he’s starred in several huge ones (the DC Video, Yeah Right!, the Red Dragon video, and more).
Colin McKay Favorite / Signature Skateboarding Tricks:
“I like backside tail slides – the simple tricks, not the difficult ones. The simple tricks that I can do well. Like backside tailslides, backside ollies, stuff like that.”
Colin McKay Skateboarding Career Highlights:
- 1995 – won Slam City Jam
- 1997 – won Slam City Jam
- 1999 – Colin McKay action figure came out
- 1999 – won silver in X Games (Vert Best Trick)
- 2000 – won silver in X Games (Vert Best Trick)
- 2003 – appeared in the movie Grind 2005 – Colin McKay and Danny Way resurrected Plan B Skateboards
Colin McKay Quote:
On what he loves about skateboarding: “I love the feeling, the sensation that it gives me especially like landing a trick, riding away, there’s no better feeling.”
Together with Moses Itkonen and Robert “Sluggo” Boyce, McKay formed the Red Dragons skateboard crew. As of 2023, Colin McKay’s net worth is estimated to be $1 million.
During a tour of Australia, McKay performed a trick known as a “backside tailslide” at the Pizzey skate park in the state of Queensland—John Cardiel stated in a 2011 interview with Australian skateboarding magazine SLAM, “That was the sickest thing I had ever seen at Pizzey”.
