I'm Bryce, a 29-year-old freestyler currently living in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. I've been skating since 2005, when my older brother Tim gave me my first board. Since then, skateboarding's been a core part of my life. I grew up near Houston, Texas, and was the only freestyler within a 320 kilometer radius. For the first 10 years of skating, I dabbled in freestyle in isolation and was unaware that a global community of freestylers existed until I moved to New York for university in 2015. Around that time, I made an Instagram account and started making friends with freestylers online (and realized I wasn't alone!).

2018 was perhaps the most pivotal year for me as a freestyler. I moved to England for university and attended my first freestyle sessions, which are where I met Alex Foster, Tony Gale, Denham Hill, Reece Archibald, among numerous other freestylers. These guys pushed me to improve beyond what I knew I was capable of, and even inspired me to enter my first freestyle contest later that spring: the World Round-Up in Canada. So, I turned in all my class assignments a month early and left the university and England to follow my freestyle dream.

After the nearly week-long World Round-Up in 2018 (where I skated awfully!), I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life traveling the world and spending time with my lifelong freestyle friends at contests. In regard to competing, it's the most terrifying and challenging thing I've ever done. But overcoming those challenges and learning to put together a decent choreographed routine with few mistakes has been the most rewarding aspect of freestyle for me. Perhaps I'm weird but I love spending hours in a parking garage drilling routines!

n addition to freestyle, I'm pursuing a PhD in Musicology and teaching music at Washington University in St. Louis. I also play trombone, am slowly learning kendama, and daydream of landing a windmill. I'm excited to join the East Frisian freestyle team! I look forward to a lovely 2026 contest season.