A Day With The 2017 Skater Of The Year Jamie Foy | FIELD DAY

Field Day swaps seaboards to experience the Floridian twist on pro skateboarding life, as we spend dawn until dusk in the ever-charming company of the 2017 Thrasher Magazine’s Skater Of The Year Jamie Foy. Deerfield Beach is where we begin, starting with an education in the precise ritual behind the breakfast trinity of bacon, eggs and cheese. What anyone who spends time in Jamie’s company notices right away is just how much he loves where his skating life has taken him, in terms of being able to live where he was raised and make a living doing what he has always loved, right there. From his driveway set-up featuring the labour-intensive nice touch of beer can coping on the concrete quarters, to his appreciation of his first neighbourhood shop sponsor Island Water Sports, he is truly at home where he lives which is not something every pro skater can be able to say. In a sense that’s actually today’s pro skating dream for a lot of people. The perfect illustration of how he and lif