Zero Skateboards: 14 Things You Didn't Know About Zero - a podcast by Shredz shop

Jamie Thomas grew up as a country bumpkin in the backwoods of Alabama, before being recognized at local contests by Vans, and Real Skateboards. He then moved to San Francisco, where he was homeless for a portion of time as he continued to establish himself as a skateboarder.   Bouncing between board brands like Experience and Invisible, Jamie is offered a place on the Flip team alongside Rune Glifberg, Geoff Rowley and Tom Penny, but turns this down for the opportunity to rebuild Toy Machine's team with Ed Templeton.   Later on, Zero is born from Andy Howell's company Zero Sophisto, and Andy gives Jamie his blessing to take Zero, and run with it, with the help of Tom Swank over at Tum Yeto.   Zero quickly becomes a board brand, picking up talented team riders such as Adrian Lopez, Chris Cole, Ryan Smith, Copelman, Marisa Del Santo, Windsor James, and others.   Together, the team put out some of the early 2000's most iconic videos, such as Thrill of it all, Dying to Live, Misled Youth, Strange World, No Cash Value, Cold War, and most recently, thrill of it all.   Nowadays, they have a stacked team with the likes of Tommy Sandoval, Garette Hill, Jamie, Chris Wimer, and even some Canadians, like JS Lapierre, Colin Lambert and Mikey Ray.

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