Elissa Steamer

Elissa Steamer is an American professional skateboarder, born on 31 July 1975 in Fort Myers, Florida, who began skateboarding in 1989 and frequented a small city-owned skate park on Grand Avenue. In 1995 she began receiving decks from Lance Mountain, who was then running a company called The Firm, despite a concurrent offer from Real Skateboards. Her first official deck sponsor was Toy Machine, founded and owned by Ed Templeton, with Chad Muska helping to arrange it, and she filmed her Welcome to Hell video part in 1996 with Jamie Thomas, who stayed with her in Fort Myers to do the camera work. She stayed with Toy Machine after Thomas and Muska left and contributed a part to Jump Off A Building, then joined the short-lived Bootleg brand, a sub-division of Baker distributed by NHS, Inc.