Amber Torrealba (born July 1, 1990) is a 5X VIC World Champion Skimboarder and Filmmaker. Before Amber became a professional skimboarder, she was born and raised on the east coast in

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, and is now currently based in

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. She has been skimboarding since 17 years of age and has been competing in the women's professional skimboarding division since 2014. Amber is also actively involved in filmmaking and the production of content in many other action sports. She has created videos with companies such as Red Bull and Adobe, and many other leading media brands. In early years Amber was featured as Leading Lady in the Pulse Skimboarding Magazine, and after migrating to

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, Torrealba ranked in several professional competitions including 2nd Place at the Skim USA OBX Skim Jam, 1st Place at the Santa Cruz SkimBlast and went on to clinch th
Vic Women's World Championship of Skimboarding
in 2016, 2018, 2019, and 2023. In 2018, 2019, 2022 she was ranked 3rd in the world on the United Skim Tour, and then secured her 5th Title at The VIC 2024.

Film

Torrealba's short film
No One
starring herself and Chabe White, was released in 2023. Amber has directed, edited, and produced content for brands such as Red Bull, Motorola, Sea Doo, Michelob ULTRA, Vayner Media, and is an ambassador for Adobe as the face of their new all device editing program

Appearances

Torrealba has made appearances in print, billboard, movie premieres, and TV commercials across her career for

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, Sea Doo, Blenders Eyewear,

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, Visit California, DC and others.

Early life

Amber wa
skateboarder
and varsity athlete pursuing college basketball. She started her own skateboarding brand fresh out of

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, sponsoring riders such as Tyson Peterson before he went pro. Torrealba graduated from the

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in 2011 and managed a Million Dollar

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Corporate Store before leaving her day job to focus on skimboarding and filmmaking in 2015.

Highlighted Contests

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