Faye Jaime was an authentic member of the Villa Villa Cola (VVC) crew out of San Diego again within the Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s, celebrated of their zines and movies. Faye might have been soft-spoken however she was a ripping skater and have become sponsored by Vans and Consolidated.
In 1997, Faye had a key function within the VVC video, Placing Concern into the Hearts of Teenage Women skating avenue and ramp:
Faye shared that she lived in North Park, San Diego and began skateboarding when she was about 12 years outdated. Faye remembered how she was impressed to construct her personal quarter pipe, round age 13 or 14 when she noticed a man down the road launching himself off a soar ramp. With none cash, Faye and her associates stole wooden from a faculty. “The police discovered us at like one within the morning, threw us down and handcuffed us, so we obtained in hassle for stealing wooden, however we obtained to maintain the ramp.”
Placing Concern into the Hearts of Teenage Women had plenty of Tremendous 8 footage of Faye’s half-pipe, though it appears like her neighbours weren’t tremendous stoked on evening classes. Faye stated that her life was mainly waking up and going skateboarding and hanging out within the yard with associates.
Pictures: Thomas Campbell, Lori Damiano, Dylan Doubt, Tiffany Morgan,
Lori Damiano, one other VVC member and artist then made a 16mm documentary movie referred to as Defeating Projections for her class at UCSD in 1999 the place she was finding out movie. There’s some nice footage of Faye ripping across the streets with associates Van Nguyen and the dual sisters, Tiffany and Nicole Morgan, in addition to the crew assembling difficulty 4 of their zine.
In Defeating Projections, Faye stated:
- “Seeing guys skate pushed me… I by no means thought that I couldn’t be pretty much as good as them.”
- “Studying from one another, having enjoyable and being artistic… I wished to supply that to different women as a result of I didn’t have that once I first began.”
- “I do know there’s different women on the market who do [want to skate], they’re simply afraid to do it as a result of there’s not plenty of women on the market. So once you go to a skatepark and all these boys are simply taking a look at you want, ‘what’s this lady going to do,’ it’s actually intimidating. However I do know once I go together with a pair different women to the skatepark, there’s three women to take a look at, so I’m not devoting all their consideration. I simply wish to give that to my associates and hopefully extra women will skate.”
Right here’s some pictures of Faye from the problems three, 4 and 5 of Villa Villa Cola from 1997-1999, together with the quilt of Subject 4:
A narrative / collage from VVC Subject 5, 1999 pp 16-24 by Tiffany Morgan (sequence pictures by Bryan Ueda) that includes Faye:
And, right here’s some writing by Faye:
Faye competed within the very first All Woman Skate Jam (September 1997), organized by Patty Segovia on the Graffix Warehouse in Chula Vista, CA. She positioned 10th in avenue. The next 12 months, the AGSJ was hosted on the Escondido Sports activities Middle. Faye positioned 5th within the Professional Mini-Ramp and 6th in Professional Avenue the place it’s possible she met Lisa Whitaker, who positioned 5th in Avenue and have become a part of the VVC evolution. Faye improved once more in 1999, on the AGSJ “Avenue Scene” occasion in San Diego with a 4th in Professional Avenue behind Elissa Steamer, Jaime Reyes and C’naan Omer.
Photograph by Wez Lundry for an article “Chicks with Sticks” on the All Woman Skate Jam within the January 1999 difficulty of Thrasher.
The rivals would meet once more in 2000 on the Slam Metropolis Jam contest in Vancouver. This time, Faye took 2nd place in avenue behind C’naan and Elissa. The outcome was spectacular and deserved. There was a step-up to a steep hand-rail nicknamed “The Cyclops” on the contest, and Faye was among the many first to casually begin sessioning the rail, touchdown a wide range of grinds together with 50-50s and a feeble grind. When 411VM launched the Vancouver 2000 difficulty, a photograph of Faye at Slam Metropolis on this rail graced the again cowl of the VHS field. This was the primary time many individuals had witnessed girls confidently skating hand-rails in individual (myself included) and I believe many have been stunned, even blown away!
Right here’s the ladies’s avenue contest (Slam Metropolis Jam 2000):
And right here’s Faye Jaime’s half solely:
Despite the fact that she solely competed at two of the 4 World Cup occasions in 2000 (Slam Metropolis Jam and Oceanside with a 4th place end), Faye was ranked 9th within the World that 12 months. Whereas Faye competed in avenue, she was equally assured skating transition together with parks like Burnside.
When the VVC crew reunited and pulled collectively the epic Getting Nowhere Sooner (2004) movie due to Lisa Whitaker, and her pitch to 411VM, Faye Jaime took half:
Faye additionally took on varied “appearing” roles within the enjoyable skits all through the movie, which made Getting Nowhere Sooner so magical, resembling being a frightened Tiffanyland visitor and probably the evil cupcake.
I’m hopeful that there’s extra pictures of Faye in existence.