TJ
Rogers
Canada
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Skateboarding
Date of birth | October 26, 1991 |
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Birthplace | Ajax, Ontario |
Age | 34 |
Nationality | Canada |
Career start | 2014 |
Disciplines | Skateboard Street |
TJ Rogers came up in skating the hard way, by letting his skating do the talking. He didn't come from a fashionable skate scene with those easy sponsorship opportunities, instead he just nurtured his talent and his love for skating, and never got distracted.
TJ put in the work to become pro for Blind and later SK8 MAFIA with a lot of class and no shortcuts.
He started like any other dreamer, shooting sponsor-me tapes on the freezing streets of his nearest city – Calgary, Canada. Now, he lives in Los Angeles, skating every day and living his dream. TJ Rogers proves to every dreamer that it can be done, even today.
His Switch Big Spin at Wallenberg and other markers he's left down around California since his arrival are only part of the story of what makes TJ who he is today, but they do demonstrate where his undeniable talent ranks in the heartland. Anyone is free to step to those spots, anytime they choose. Few carve their names on them, though.
You can see how much he loves skating from the effervescence of his footage: TJ Rogers is living the skate life right. Happy to do a demo, happy to hop in the van, he has some of the best tricks in the game as his own – a fact that his blistering 2020 interview part for Red Bull Skateboarding capably demonstrated.
The very least that can be said about TJ – leaving aside everything else he has achieved in life – is that he's fully realised his skateboarding gift, a talent full of beautifully measured and inventive skating that's been seen worldwide at contests and in projects like his Steady Pushing cross-country trip through Canada and his latest Project Carousel, where he skated an unbelievable park hand cut from the ice on a frozen lake in Minnesota alongside Torey Pudwill and Ryan Decenzo.