Justin Rivera
Justin was born May 1, 1997 in Palm Springs, California and started skating when he was 4 years old. His dad stoked him on skateboarding and has been taking him to his local skate parks ever since then. Justin has been competing for the last 4 years. He rides regular foot and his favorite type of skating is anything with transition, he especially likes to ride the vert. Justin likes getting warp speed and catching big air. He gets stoked when he is skating with his brother Travis and friends learning new tricks. Justin’s influences in skateboarding are Lonnie Hiramoto and Omar Hassan.
His greatest supporters are his mom and dad. Justin’s favorite professionals are Christian Hosoi, Bucky Lasek, Lincoln Ueda, Lonnie Hiramoto, Monty Gibo, Buster Halterman and too many others to list. His local skate parks are Palm Springs and Palm Desert. His favorite skate park is Encinitas YMCA because it is the closest vert ramp to where he lives. He also likes to shred the Combi Bowl at Vans with the local pros. Justin’s favorite skate spot is an old abandoned pool at the Salton Sea. He cannot stand being indoors doing no activity at all and can’t live without his skateboard. His favorite music to listen to when he skates is the Red Hot Chili Peppers. His goals are to keep progressing and to do the Mega Ramp. Justin is sponsored by Spun, Nitro and KHIRO. Justin is very stoked and honored to be on the KHIRO team alongside with so many legendary riders
Travis Rivera
Travis was born on June 8, 2000 in Palm Springs, California. He started skating at an early age after watching his dad and brother skating around. Travis has been skating competitively for 3 years. He rides regular foot and has been known to ride switch just to mix things up. Travis loves to skate anything with transition with bowl skating being one of his favorite. Some of his greatest influences are his brother Justin and his dad who he always enjoys skating with. Travis likes learning new tricks and his favorite trick is a frontside layback 5 0 grind. Skateboarding to him means “having a good time”. Some of Travis’s favorite skateboard pros are Buster Halterman, Omar Hassan, Bob Burnquist, Lonnie Hiramoto, Monty Gibo, Lincoln Ueda and too many others to list.
His hometown skateparks are Palm Springs and Palm Desert. Other skateparks he likes to go to are the Encinitas YMCA because it has a bit of everything to skate, Vans for the Combi Bowl and the Salton Sea Pool. When Travis is not skateboarding he likes to play his guitar, listen to music anything Black Sabbath, ACDC & White Stripes, do art, play basketball and kickball. His goals are to keep progressing in skateboarding. Travis is sponsored by Spun, Nitro and KHIRO. Travis is very stoked and honored to be on the KHIRO team alongside with so many legendary riders.
