Willy Monolato Santos is a Filipino-American professional skateboarder born in Subic Bay, Philippines. He has been skating for 19 years. He currently resides in Poway, California but grew up in Mira Mesa.

Willy Santos was one of the best street skaters during the dark early 90’s. He was pushing new tricks and winning proper gritty skatecomps (not your TV extravaganzas of today) with illustrious style and grace.

Now he owns his own skateshops, Willy’s Workshop (Rancho Penasquitos & Mira Mesa). Willy also organizes community outreach programs, created his own shop team and even assisted the design of the local Rancho Penasquitos skateboard public park. Willy Santos currently is sponsored by Birdhouse Projects, Hurricane Trucks, Vans Shoes, Billabong Clothing, G-Shock Watches, Jones Soda, Bones Brigade Bearings, and Willy’s Workshop. Check the video’s that we dug up from youtube.

In 2004, Marlon Unas Esquerra was on Season 4 of the Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam. He is a Poet, Writer, DJ, and Teacher. Marlon Unas Esguerra is a second generation Filipino American Muslim, born and raised in Chicago. Marlon currently resides in Harlem, and is a High School Special Education teacher in the South Bronx. Marlon is a three-time Chicago poetry slam champion. Below is clip of him doing his thing at the Def Poetry Jam.

Christine Gambito, better known to her audience as HappySlip, is an internet celebrity and popular youtube content provider. She maintains one of YouTube’s most subscribed channels.

Gambito attributes her nickname “HappySlip” to her Filipino mother’s mispronunciation of “half slip”:

As a child, my Filipino mom would always remind me to wear a half-slip with skirts. However, the way she would pronounce the phrase was misleading: “Your hap e-slip! Be sure to wear your hap e-slip!” So I naturally went around calling the thing a ‘happy slip,’ until friends at school corrected me by asking if I had a ’sad slip’ as well.

Here’s one of my favorite clips, check it out. You could find more clips on www.happyslip.com

Congratulations to Ramiele Malubay for making the top 24 on American Idol 7.

Former WBC light flyweight champion Brian Viloria, now fighting as a flyweight, scored a big win as his comeback continued with a unanimous points decision over Cesar “Gallito” Lopez on the undercard of the “Revenge or Repeat” fight card featuring Kelly Pavlik and Jermain Taylor.

Although it may be considered somewhat of a comedown for a former world champion to fight an eight rounder, the card was so loaded with great world title fights that there was no room for Viloria. But, the fighter who traces his roots to Ilocos Sur but is nicknamed “The Hawaiin Punch” took the fight and put on an impressive performance.

All three judges had Viloria winning handily with two judges scoring it for the former champion 78-73 and the third judge 77-74.

Viloria dropped Lopez in the fifth round with a solid right but couldn’t finish the job against the durable Lopez who hasn’t been knocked out in his career with a record of 20-6-4 with 4 knockouts.

Viloria who defeated Jose Garcia Bernal last January 24 after losing a majority decision to Edgar Sosa in a battle for the vacant WBC title on April 14,2007 is reportedly eyeing a title shot at Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire but that will have to wait since Donaire is scheduled to defend his title against Australia’s Hussein Hussein in Dubai on April 18.

Lopez who is from El Paso, Texas lost a unanimous decision to Isidro Garcia in an IBA title fight on April 17, 2007 and earlier dropped a unanimous decision to Glenn Donaire , older brother of Nonito Donaire in an NABA and vacant WBO NABO flyweight title bout on May 5, 2006.

Source: PhilBoxing.com
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
Photos by: JAE C. HONG | Associated Press