goin pro

[public enemy]

i have given this alot of thought, and i want to be a pro skater. when i started, it was always a thought but until now, skateboarding has been just for fun. i have decided that i am going to go pro. i know i can do it if i want it bad enough, and i decided that i do. i have skated for like 5 years, i started when i was 11 or so, which was 2 years before jamie thomas started, so i figure i can be at least as successful as him if i set my mind to it.

i know all the pro skaters are always like "just skate for fun, don't worry about gettin sponsored", but if one were to think like that, they never would get sponsored and skateboarding would never amount to anything in their lives other than a p***time or hobby.

my guidance counsellor at my school said "if you had 1 million dollars, what would you do", and watever you answered, that is what your job should be, and i answered skateboard.

where theres a will theres a way.

[DarkHawk2-2]

i admire ure way of thinking but going pro is definitely more far off than "where theres a will, theres a way". Considering that there are over millions of skaters around the world, with the majority pushing for ure same goal, its pretty impossible in these times. Plus, prodigy kids and junk are popping up everywhere. Take a look at Ryan Sheckler. Then Darrell Stanton whose been skating for 3 years and rides for vans and junk, Paul Rodriguez who is now 19 and has been skating since 14, Terry Kennedy with 4 yrs under his belt... More kids like this are coming out of the closet. You can still make it of course, I'm just trying to encourage you to push ureself further. Not too far but u know wat im saying. I'm pretty sure you're aware of the skate crowd right now with 5 yrs of exp. Also, just skate for fun. Though the road to going pro sounds like fun, do u realize the pain involved? Rethink wat ure going for. The pros say skate for fun and thats wat they did and they went pro. That's how most pros went pro. Just enjoy skateboarding and laws of karma will reward u.

p.s. most pros were prodigies, are u?

[Skate or Try]

Life of a pro isn't great u know. They phone you up in the middle of the nite and tell you to get your *** down to NY for a quick photo shoot. Its shit believe me. Then theirs the pressure stuff like trying huge sets n stuff and stacking hard, but whatever its your life.

[AIRZ1]

They do?

YOu actually know this for a fact.

[public enemy]

well i know being a pro takes work, but, i would rather have to get up in the middle of the night to go skateboard and make living doing so, than go sit in an office from nine ta five, five days a week.

[oldscoolelement]

by not worrying about sposnorships and skating for fun, you'll probably get noticed and get sponsored. and anyone can be pro, just show up at a contest and when u sign up, check "pro" where it says "pro" or "amateur". thats how tony hawk did it.

[public enemy]

actually, your sponsors make you pro by giving you a pro board or wheels or something.

[Flip Boy]

You got a video of yourself?

[media1]

just to let you know as soon as you get a pro board out then the wheel company if you have one makes a pro model wheel and then if you have a shoe company they go the same. but as almost every pro has said. you gotta know the big men of the industry. do you? well this is why i have a willing desire to film skateboarding.

[public enemy]

nope i dont have a video yet, in the process. the last footy i did, i bruised my tailbone on a 6 stair bs noseslide gone bad.

[edward]

have u seen the falls they take? u have to ask urself whether your willing to take life threating falls like that. take heath kirchart in the "this is skateboarding" r u willing to fall that hard? and then on top of that are u willing to get up and go try that trick again untill u land it? i mean sure it is natural for a skateboarder to get back up and do the trick again even after a hard fall cuz the adreniline gets pumping but u have to think about whether u would be able to get back up and try it again after u almost died.

[Flip Boy]

Here's the difference..

Amatuers practice til they get it right, Pro's practice til they can't get it wrong.

[Sum1Stupid&Ugly]

I know someone who went pro. He was 21, and the next year, his only big name sponsor(aws)dropped him casue he "sucked."

[Ramp]