Jim Thiebaud

Jim Thiebaud is an American skateboarder who grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and was part of the city's skate scene in the 1980s. While attending Albany High School in 1982 and 1983 he mentored younger skateboarders including Rick Patterson, Mark Warren and Ben Fuller, demonstrating wallrides, hippie jumps over chairs, ollies down stairsets and boardslides down handrails in the school courtyard. He rode as an amateur for Powell-Peralta, turned pro for Santa Monica Airlines, and in 1991 co-founded Real Skateboards with his former Powell-Peralta teammate Tommy Guerrero. He later founded Adeline Records, is Vice President at Deluxe Distribution, and wrote the books Do The Distance and Loose Change.