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Jonathan James Corlett Dunn(born November 18, 1973 in Dayton, Ohio) is a Sketchy Professional Skateboarder for Freee! Skateboarding(his own board company), and is hardly considered in the history of the sport. He claims to have invented Quick, the process of doing two or more tricks consecutively on a bank or transition and executive produced two videos showcasing his "talent"; "Really Quick!"(2004) and "Yeah Quick!"(2003). You can watch both videos on youtube(and chuckle). He is currently working on a third sketchy skateboarding video tentatively entitled "Extremely Quick" although his idea is "quick"-ly being shot down by his fellow teammates and the project will probably not be completed for quite some time.

Today, he manages a skateboarding team consisting of his local skate homies, Fonzie, Sean, Jon Louie, Nailon, Dan Durham, Andrew, Dylan, Carli, Reggie, and Ducky. He is mainly unknown for his seldom beatable game of SKATE in which he does a large variety of "dork" tricks which frustrate his fellow players oftentimes to tears. He also attends a local university, although he did attend Harvard University in Boston, MA for 10 years, 3 years while homeless, and finally graduated, twice. While in Boston he skated at one time or another with the likes of Robbie Gangemi, P.J. Ladd, Jereme Rogers, Eli Reed, and Kevin Coakley, most of whom will smile and perhaps laugh when you mention J.J. Dunn.

In 2002-2004 he competed in the prestigious Tampa Am Skateboard Contest, which is unofficial World Championship of Skateboarding and did particularly miserably. Undeterred, he vowed one day to return to enter the Tampa Pro Contest, although they denied his application for his fourth amateur appearance at the Am event, so unless he can "show and prove" that's not happening. He turned pro nonetheless.

In the late 90's he was unknown mainly for his homelessness while attending college in San Fransisco but also "kept it real" skateboarding at one time or another with the likes of Henry Sanchez, Stevie Williams, Karl Watson, James Kelch, and Spencer Fugimoto, none of whom will know who you are talking about if you mention J.J. Dunn.

In the early 90's he was unknown for both his technical street skating, typical of the time, and both his fast and technical mini-ramp skating including Lipslide Smith Grind Reverts, Backside Nosegrind Reverts, Blunt Variations and Obscure, Outdated, Coping Dances.

In the late 80's, he was unknown for his launch ramp skills including Christ Airs, Airwalks, Indy Airs, and for his banks skills, consisting mostly of Boneless variations.

Among some of his more extravagant claims, he claims to have done front foot impossibles off his launch ramp in the mid 80's, a pop shove-it late backfoot kickflip shove-it over a 12' long pyramid in the early 90's, six 360 underflips in a row and a 360 flip 5-0 on a rail in San Francisco in the mid 90's. Unknown for some time as "Double J", he had a singular fascination with the double flip, mainly double kickflips, fakie double heelflips, and double pressure flips. He is also unknown for his signature maneuvers the "Muhammed Ollie"(360 underflip) and the Soul Flip(roll flip with the kickflip foot).

One of the first contests J.J. entered was in Fairborn, OH, in 1988. He took third place in the 1A Division and had some success in amateur contests in the tri-state. Sometime later, he was noticed by Professional Skateboarder, Ned Hadden(Assault Skateboards), and became flow sponsored by A1 Meats Wheel Co. through Ned, but not to the knowledge of A1 Meats. He also got a package from Kryptonics once. And a rather large and complete package from a friend who worked at a skateboard company who stuffed a box for him, but not to the knowledge of said board company. He has also had many unsuccessful skateboard companies which he has started himself.