Pro skateboarding
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Anonymous
| DS has decided he wants to be a professional skate boarder. He is a very unmotivated student but is quite athletic. What are his prospects? |
Anonymous
| A HS friend's son does this. He has sponsorships and a YouTube channel and she posts stuff about him. He lives in California and seems very happy and she is very proud. It looks pretty cool to me. |
Anonymous
| My friend's kid did this. And later, after he'd had a child and was starting to get old, he buckled down, got a college degree, and is involved in the industry again in a different way. |
Anonymous
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We had a friend who had a professional BMX rider. Took quite a bit of effort and going to this and that but eventually got to a decent living.
Would recommend starting a professional YT channel with demos, how-tos and 'show off' highlight reel kind of stuff. Look at the F2 Freestylers (soccer) as a model for how to build a YT channel for a sports-related theme that is appealing to marketers and whatnot. |
Anonymous
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If the kid is good looking they also can get modeling and commercial gigs in addition to skate boarding. Most professional skateboarders I know did fine...grew up
And have sales or executive jobs with skateboarding related companies |
Anonymous
| He's very good looking. |