Jamie thomas

Cover: Jamie Thomas – Switch Frontside Lipslide Photo: Burnett Inside This Mag: An interview with Jamie Thomas Also In This Issue: Am showdown in Made...

The Leap of Faith - This is an image of professional skateboarder Jamie Thomas hurling himself via a melon grab over a rail and off a 17 foot wall to the cement below. I shot this photo in 1997 at Point Loma High in San Diego, California and it famously became known as "The Leap of Faith". Upon impact, Jamie's board broke in half but he walked away with only a slight limp. This photo is signed by Grant Brittain and 9X12", 16X22" 27X33" approximate image size on 11X14", 18X24", 30X36" Fuji…

My first transworld skate boarding magazine had this exact cover!

Jamie Thomas is an American professional skateboarder known in the industry as “The Chief”. Thomas made the move from Alabama to California where he turned pro in 1992.

JAMIE THOMAS

Jamie Thomas the best skate of the word. Jamie started skate at eleven, his first sponsor was deluxe, thunders trucks, spirtfire wheels and as a flow ride for real skateboard. In 1996 Jamie started a small company clothing, through toy machine distributor tum yeto, later this company into to zero skateboard and is owned and president of black box, and is the parent comp. In 2006 he won a regional entrepremeur of the year. Is global symbol skate, one of the tours in which he participed were…

"I work on lightening up everyday, but it’s hard because I also think my obsessiveness has been a key facto...

Jamie Thomas wallie. Photo by Matt Price

Jamie Thomas on Instagram: “i had the pleasure of joining the @roark crew last fall on the ‘Great Escape’, a trip along the US continental divide skating in the cold…”