Jamie Thomas is definitely influential to thousands of young bros out there.  Within the skateboard industry, there are hundreds of skaters to choose from to be your role model.  You can either look up to someone like Jamie Thomas for that spiritual guidance, level headed, business minded mentor or you can go the totally opposite end of the spectrum and look up to someone like ANTWUAN DIXON to learn how to get tattoos all over your face. 

Jamie had hundreds of questions to choose from.  He chose several lucky questioners who were not boring, from the long list on ActiveRideShop.com.  I’m still hoping that Jamie will answer some of my questions.

“So Jamie, you went from having the baldest head in skating to the most hessian.  How do you do it?”  Or for instance, “Jamie, do you think that Sarah Palin is a bimbo?”
Check out the questions over at ACTIVE. 

South Shore Distribution and Fallen Footwear are happy to announce that the 12th Annual Make-A-Wish Foundation Skate Jam in Houston Texas raised $100,082.31in the name of Johnny Romano.  Since its inception, The Johnny Romano Skate Jam has raised over half a million dollars for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. 

This event saw some of the biggest names in skateboarding come out in support of Make-A-Wish.  Over 50 top professional skateboarders including, Billy Marks, Dennis Busenitz, Jamie Thomas, Erik Ellington, Ernie Torres, Chris Cole, Nick Dompierre, Josh Harmony, Lizard King, Danny Montoya, Peter Ramondetta, and more competed in a series of best trick contests to raise money for Make-A-Wish.

2008 Johnny Romano Skate Jam Results:

BOWL JAM:
1ST Place:          Andrew Langi      $5000 Donation
2nd Place:          Josh Mattson       $2500 Donation
3rd Place:           Tony Cervantes  $1000 Donation

ZUMIEZ BEST TRICK:
Winner:               Chris Cole             $2000 Donation

STREET BEST TRICK:
1st Place:             Chris Cole              $5000 Donation
2nd Place:           Gilbert Crockett    $2500 Donation
3rd Place:            Sean Malto            $1000 Donation

Jamie Thomas is many things: Professional Skateboarder, business owner, family man, and director of everything Black Box is going to be answering your questions! Ask him whatever you’d like to know from his long, amazing, and hessian career, which don’t seem to slow down.  If you’re lucky enough and not boring, he’ll pick your question and answer them for you on ActiveRideShop.com You have until October 20th to get your questions in and they will post the video of Jamie’s answers by November 1st.

Don’t think that just because Jamie Thomas is like God to you, that you can’t go ahead and ask him the hard-hitting questions people often avoid.  Like, “So Jamie, you went from having the baldest head in skating to the most hessian.  How do you do it?”  Or for instance, “Jamie, do you think that Sarah Palin is a bimbo?” 

I really don’t think he will shy away from the topics that matter and I encourage all of you out there to partake in this important discussion.  Make sure you get to Active in time to allow Jamie enough time let your questions sink in.

What a great way to develop foreign relationships with one of the world’s biggest super powers in the world by going over there with one of the United States best skate teams and putting on a good show.  It shows a lot that George W. Bush really cares about our standing on the international stage and how the rest of the world perceives us.  First there was the New York Philharmonic playing in North Korea, now this: Fallen in Moscow.  What a great headline. 

Well the Fallen team have been pushing their new skate video “Ride The Sky” now after being viewed by some “Best Skate Video Of The Year” and t goes back to “pure skating”.  I wonder what that means?  But with that success, the Fallen team wanted to take it overseas and to include it on their video tour.  So with that, Moscow was part of their itinerary and they have also documented some of it in a nice little video seen here.  Check it!  And also make sure you watch it till the end to experience some traditional Russian Folk Dancing. 

1. Dramatic cinematography – check
2. Hessian music – check
3. Hessian skaters – check

“Ride The Sky” features Fallen riders Josh Harmony, Tony Cervantes, Jamie Thomas, Brian “Slash” Hansen, Matt Bennett, James Hardy, Gilbert Crockett, Billy Marks, Tommy Sandoval, and Chris Cole. Check out the flyer below for all the premier dates and hopefully you will be lucky enough (since most of them are in Europe) to be part of this hessian filled event.