Tyshawn Jones

Tyshawn Jones is an American professional skateboarder from New York, born on 24 December 1998 in Manhattan, who won Thrasher's Skater of the Year award twice, in 2018 and 2022. He grew up between New Jersey and the Bronx and was introduced to skateboarding at ten by playing the video game Skate with his brother and uncle, buying his first board at Target. He began on a flow sponsorship from Toy Machine and went pro under Fucking Awesome, whose founder Jason Dill he met in New York in 2011, then appeared in Supreme's 2014 video cherry and signed with Adidas that year. He co-founded the hardware and apparel company Hardies with teammate Na-Kel Smith, took the 2018 Skater of the Year award after his part in Supreme's video BLESSED at nineteen, and in 2022 left Fucking Awesome to start King Skateboards. He skates regular-footed.