The nickname 'Spanky' comes from his older brother's friends who apparently compared him to Spanky from the Little Rascals. Long skates goofy (standing with his right foot forward on the skateboard).
In 2003, Long won the Tampa Am contest in Tampa, Florida. In the same year he turned pro for Baker Skateboards. In 2005 he received his own pro model shoe, the KSL1, withEmerica. Kevin's second pro shoe, named the "KSL Dos", was released in 2007. His third pro model shoe the "spanky" was released in June 2008. recently he has made a new shoe model called the situation. Long has appeared in the video, Baker 3, which was the recipient of the Best Video award at the 8th Annual Transworld Skateboarding Awards. He was also featured in Emerica's "This is Skateboarding" and "Kids in Emerica" which both show his incredible talent for skateboarding. He had part in Baker Skateboard's "Baker Has a Deathwish" released in 2008, and "Stay Gold - The Emerica Video," released in 2010. He was also in the Wavves music video "Post Acid" as a skateboarding alien.
He is also the guitarist for the band called The Goat and The Occasional Others, also including Shane Heyl, Andrew Reynolds, Beagle Oneism, and Atiba Jefferson Some hits being "OOH YOUR WEIRD", "LUH DAT SH!T", and "Billy"
His older brother, Patrick Long, is a professional race car driver.
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