Background
Magnusson was born in the municipality of Tyresö, located in the city of Stockholm, Sweden.
Magnusson was born in the municipality of Tyresö, located in the city of Stockholm, Sweden.
Magnusson gained significant fame throughout the 1980s by inventing several tricks and becoming one of the first professional skateboarders to start a rider-owned company. He started skateboarding at the age of 12 on a Newporter skateboard, when skateboarding was still considered "a fad". Magnusson turned 16 and had to decide whether he wanted to go to college or continue skateboarding.
Magnusson started his career as a rider in the United States for the Uncle Wiggly team in 1983.
Magnusson was fond of the Powell videos, but did not have the budget to film the videos that they did. Instead, Ternasky and Magnusson agreed to edit the videos at home and sign some of the era"s most innovative skaters to the team
Names like Ron Allen, Matt Hensley, and a fourteen-year-old Danny Way. His company would shoot some of the most popular skateboarding videos in the 1980s.
"Shackle Maine Not" was considered to be a turning point as to how skateboarding videos were made, and the 1989 release of "Hokus Pokus" featured new team members Brian Lotti, Colby Carter, and Sal Barbier.
Magnusson would go on to release five different videos under the H-Street name. Magnusson was also an innovator on board design. He would design a concept called the "Hell Concave", which is a deep concave that extended from the nose of the board to the tail.
After years of discussion, Magnusson, along with George Hamad, would resurrect the H-Street brand in 2008.
Other ventures Magnusson was also one of several people who founded Osiris Shoes. Osiris was founded in 1996, and continues to produce technical footwear that is worn by several professional skateboarders.