{"id":62314,"date":"2019-05-31T16:37:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T20:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockx.com\/news\/?p=62314"},"modified":"2019-05-31T16:37:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T20:37:55","slug":"supreme-skate-team-tyshawn-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockx.com\/news\/supreme-skate-team-tyshawn-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Skate Team Profile: Tyshawn Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Part 3 of StockX\u2019s 6-part series highlighting the lives of Supreme\u2019s Skate Team.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

For the most part, as is the case with the the other two members of Supreme’s Skate Team, the majority of skaters who go professional come from LA. Unlike most of the other members of Supreme’s Skate Team though, Tyshawn Jones hails from the opposite coast, natively hailing from The Bronx. Tyshawn started skating when he was 10 years old. In an interview with Bill Strobek for Thrasher, Tyshawn admits that it was his mother that eventually pushed him to start skating, giving him $60 and telling him to go outside instead of playing video games all day. From there, it became something special for Tyshawn. Despite being very young, Tyshawn improved very quickly and it wasn’t long before he started leaving the Bronx to skate other areas in the city. After a short while, Tyshawn’s skating caught the eyes of some of the workers at Supreme who’d eventually reach out and ask him to come down to the store. It was six months before Tyshawn made his way into the Supreme store and from there, he was onboard. Shortly after joining Supreme, in 2012, Tyshawn was featured in a short clip called “Buddy” opposite longtime Supreme legend, Jason Dill.<\/p>\n

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Much like the rest of the skaters on this list, the full-length Supreme skate film, Cherry, is widely considered to be what put Tyshawn Jones on the map for the wider community observing all things Supreme and skateboarding. His part in Cherry contained a seminal moment for the skater, something similar to Sean Pablo’s “Take My Virginity Away” quote scene. Near the end of his part in the film, Tyshawn can be seen tearing his shirt after nailing a trick he’d been trying to hit for a while. This became the springboard for the things to come later as he’d shortly join adidas’s professional team as well as the FA team with the rest of his Supreme Team counterparts.<\/p>\n

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After “cherry”, Tyshawn’s become a bona fide star, winning Thrasher’s Skater Of The Year Award (basically skateboarding’s highest honor) in 2018 after his first nomination for the long list came in 2016. He still skates for adidas, appearing in their debut skate film, Away Days, a few years ago and he’s currently rumored to be working on his own shoe. He also runs his own skateboarding and hardware company, Hardie’s Hardware, which just collaborated with adidas on two shoes and some apparel. Outside of skating, Tyshawn recently opened a restaurant in his neighborhood in the Bronx called “Taste So Good (Make You Wanna Smack Your Mama)”. Scroll down to check out Tyshawn’s career highlights.<\/p>\n

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