Welcome to Living Legends, a new eight-part video series brought to you exclusively by Push.ca and Degree. The idea behind Living Legends is a simple one, we want to honor and document the careers of professional skateboarders and snowboarders that have a significant impact on their sports but remain in the game.

Over the coming months you can expect flurry of historical photos, footage, interviews and back-stories on every individual featured. A new episode of Living Legends drops every two weeks, so keep your eyes peeled for features on some of your all-time favorite pros. Back for round two, we bring you the on-going history of Shin Campos.

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Living Legend: Shin Campos [by: Pete Anderson]

"Speak softly and carry a big stick," comes to mind when trying to describe Shin Campos. He has always let his riding do the talking...well, more like yelling and screaming, but the message has always remained the same: ‘I live to snowboard each and every chance I get'. Pro since 1993, his approach to the sport has always been methodical and calculated. He keeps his emotions in check and channels all his energy into making his snowboard do what he wants it to do, and it always seems to listen intently, not unlike any audience that is lucky enough to hear Shin share his stories of everything snowboarding.

Shin Campos. Hockenstein photo.

Shin spent the first years of his life in Kelowna, B.C. before being shuffled all over the province, with the majority of his childhood spent in Slocan Valley. At 16 he moved to Vancouver to live with his father. It was here that he discovered his first love, skateboarding. The weather wasn't conducive to getting a lot of time on his skateboard in the winter months so his attention turned to snowboarding on the local mountains with his skate crew, trying to emulate the feelings and tricks of rolling around on four wheels. The desire to make snowboarding feel like skateboarding gave way to an undying drive to slide sideways on snow so he moved to Whistler in 1990 and he hasn't looked back since.

Pushed by the overall progression of the sport, Shin continued to excel his riding, which allowed him to travel the globe using his skills on a shred stick to pay the way, and lend to his reputation as one of the world's best riders. Now 38-years-old, he has partially switched his focus to the story telling of snowboarding with his latest endeavor, Whistler Creek Productions. Having first stood on a snowboard 22 years ago, Shin still just wants to keep the stoke going, get on the hill as often as possible, and through the films he is now creating, share all the emotions, knowledge and experience that snowboarding has brought him over the years.

Shin Campos. Serfas photo.

And don't forget our first Living Legends video with Dennis Bannock, and his bonus skate edit.

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