Elliot Sloan

Elliot Sloan is an American professional skateboarder. He is a sixteen-time X Games medalist, most recently winning in the Skateboard vert best trick event at the 2023 X Games in Japan.
Sloan was born in New York City and was raised there. He cites Tony Hawk as an influence for him to begin skateboarding.
Besides skateboarding, Sloan is also an active guitarist. He was the lead guitarist and bassist of the melodic death metal project The Stranded, which released 1 album on July 2nd 2012, Survivalism Boulevard. In 2020 he formed the metal act Night Fiends with In Flames drummer Tanner Wayne.