No one can fathom that the top 200 pro street skaters run from cops on the weekends and use a generator and lights to light up a handrail at 2 in the morning to get a trick that's going to be in an advertisement that will be shown around the world.
At most contests now, skaters are judged against themselves.
As a professional skateboarder, I can't look at anyone getting hurt - it freaks me out.
I quit high school to be a pro skateboarder out of Ohio, which is just asinine, but it was meant to be.
The mainstream thinks that every skateboarder aspires to be in the X Games.
The serious professional skateboarder doesn't have a job. They get paid enough not to.