Green Day主唱Billie Joe Armstrong和Real创始人之一的Jim Thiebaud有着十几年的交情，这次他们联合推出4款板面并决定将盈利的一部分捐助给旧金山Bay Area当地的儿童医院及疾病研究中心，推动慈善事业发展
Green Day, Calif. skateboard legend Jim Thiebaud partner to raise money for Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland
此次推出Actions REALized主题慈善板面，以Green Day乐队成员头像为图，设计极具Green Day风格，此次合作系列板面的盈利一部分也将捐助给旧金山Bay Area当地的儿童医院及疾病研究中心，Armstrong的姐姐就工作在那个医院里
滑板是一个很好的平台，这不仅仅是发布几块新的板面，而是告诉大家可以通过自己来改变世界
不过Thiebaud的老爹却不觉得这是个好主意，他俩从开始到现在都没说过话了，希望矛盾今早解决吧！
The co-founder of Real Skateboards, one of the biggest and most respected board companies in the U.S., Thiebaud announced a new fundraising partnership on Monday with East Bay rockers Green Day that will benefit Children’s Hospital & Research Center in Oakland.
“It’s a true collaboration with Green Day,” Thiebaud told the Daily News. “I’ve been friends with Billie Joe for more than 15 years. I grew up in Berkeley and Oakland. When you were a punk rocker or a skateboarder, you stuck out, so you got to know everyone in the scene.”
Mimicking the graphics for Green Day’s latest, multi-album release, “Uno!,” “Dos!,” and “Tré!,” Real is issuing custom skateboards that the company will sell in skate shops and online. Proceeds will go to Children’s Hospital.
Real Skateboards co-founder Jim Thiebaud has been friends with Armstrong for more than 15 years, and said he has long wanted to collaborate on a project with Green Day.
“Skateboarding is an amazing platform,” Thiebaud said. “It’s not just about pushing a board; you can use it to change the world.”
Thiebaud, now in charge of brand marketing at Real Skateboards’ parent company, Deluxe, did not have a storybook road to business success.
In 1985, when he in his second year at San Jose State University, Thiebaud dropped out to follow his dream of becoming a professional skateboarder.
“Basically I left to get into a van and drive around the country,” Thiebaud said. “I was living the dream. I wasn’t getting paid, but I didn’t care about that.”
The proceeds from the special Green Day boards will go to Children's Hospital & Research Center, where Armstrong's sister works.
Thiebaud’s father had another opinion altogether.
“My dad didn’t like it,” Thiebaud. “To this day, we don’t speak to each other because of it.”
As a touring pro at Powell-Peralta, Thiebaud became close with another street skating pioneer, Tommy Guerrero, and the two eventually decided to strike out on their own.
With backing from some of the people behind Thrasher magazine, Thiebaud and Guerrero founded Real in 1991. Today, the expanded Deluxe brand employs 40 people at the company’s San Francisco headquarters.
Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt and the other members of the band welcomed Children's Hospital patients backstage at their recent concert at Berkeley's Greek Theater.
“It’s a difficult industry,” Thiebaud said. “You have to be incredibly committed to what you’re doing.”
At the same time that Real was carving out its spot in the skateboarding industry, Green Day was starting to gel as a band, releasing “Dookie,” it’s first album on a major label, in 1994. Through it all, Thiebaud maintained his friendship with Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong.
“I remember I had a big talk Billie Joe, who let me know it would be okay to become a father,” Thiebaud said, “that it would work out.”
Thiebaud’s own son is now in middle school and has his father’s unconditional backing.
“Whatever he’s into, I will support it 100%,” Thiebaud said.
Though Thiebaud said he and Armstrong have wanted to collaborate on a project for some time, he gives all the credit for this fundraiser to Green Day.
“Billie Joe’s sister works at Children’s Hospital, and he suggested it,” Thiebaud said. “It’s entirely Green Day. I’m just lucky to be a part of it.”
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