first pro rider

[qwxor]

I honestly think when you say Pro in scooters, or if you're calling people pro, it's when those people are the top of the sport, or people who have 'mastered' it for lack of a better word. I know you can't master everything, but you know what i mean?

And when like, more than just a few of your friends call you pro, and you're recognized

 

[Big L]

why are these threads made? like do you really need to know this, why do you care so much, what do people think when they make threads like this, "cool now that i know this i can tell my friends who the first pro scooterer was!' no, its dumb just my opinion

 

[Jordan Jasa]

well, if you have a razor and a pretty paint job, you're practically on the team already. you just have to go talk to ali.

you get a cookie if you can guess where i got that from lol.

 

[Big L]

well, if you have a razor and a pretty paint job, you're practically on the team already. you just have to go talk to ali.

you get a cookie if you can guess where i got that from lol.

lol dibbs

 

[the_SD_local]

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Andrew has the Business though..
He's not being paid to ride.

I'm not being paid specifically to ride a scooter but I could not have done what I have done and what I am doing if I was not a rider first and foremost.

I do believe to be pro you need to have an income because of your skill. It is pretty difficult to make a living in the extreme sports industry so I'm not saying you have to be rich but if you aren't making a little money off it then you aren't pro. Doesn't matter how good you are or how many competitions you win.

 

[Snow Patrol]

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Andrew has the Business though..
He's not being paid to ride.

I'm not being paid specifically to ride a scooter but I could not have done what I have done and what I am doing if I was not a rider first and foremost.

I do believe to be pro you need to have an income because of your skill. It is pretty difficult to make a living in the extreme sports industry so I'm not saying you have to be rich but if you aren't making a little money off it then you aren't pro. Doesn't matter how good you are or how many competitions you win.

yeah pretty much summed up.

 

[maxlikesscooters]

yepp

 

[AX3D]

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Andrew has the Business though..
He's not being paid to ride.

I'm not being paid specifically to ride a scooter but I could not have done what I have done and what I am doing if I was not a rider first and foremost.

I do believe to be pro you need to have an income because of your skill. It is pretty difficult to make a living in the extreme sports industry so I'm not saying you have to be rich but if you aren't making a little money off it then you aren't pro. Doesn't matter how good you are or how many competitions you win.

oath. but i still think its rediculas that skateboarders can make a 'living' so much 'easyer' then scooters.. but remmeber how much the audience at the x games loved scooters more then the skaters? (or so it was said).. eh idk where im going but i just think if someone wanted to put %110 into making a living of shit, imo its possible if they just made the right moves.. did a lot of demos or whatever idk.

 

[fiSHtITS]

^ i agree

I find watching skating so boring. At my local park all you see is the same guys roll back and forth between these tiny ramps trying to land an axle stall and whenever good scooter riders turn up there are some massive hip bri airs and triple whips and huge allyoop whips off the quarter to roll-in. I feel if all the right moves were made and scooters didn't have such a bad rep it'd be easy to get them popular to an audience. The bad stigma scooters has with it though really brings us down.

 

[scooterpro]

lol most ppls are stupid becasue being pro means gettin paid for wat u do best

 

[Brian Murphy]

i get paid from fuzion lol so i m a pro fuzion rider? lol

 

[the_SD_local]

Yea... actually.

 

[AX3D]

I feel if all the right moves were made and scooters didn't have such a bad rep it'd be easy to get them popular to an audience. The bad stigma scooters has with it though really brings us down.

that never stoped skateboarding from being considered a 'toy' to a legitimate sport tho

 

[coin]

give it like another decade and other brands like DC, Billabong and shit we'll probably start sponsering scooter riders so that you could make a living out of it

 

[me1]

You're exactly right. Its about exposure to the public. But what sucks about it is, that there needs to be a huge want for the exposure from the public or it won't be given to them. It's like a screwed up circle. Just like parks around here, the town gives us something to stop drug use, but since it's big in the area already they just drug while they are there. And the parks around here say "no bikes". Skaters somehow put such an impact on everyone. Almost everybody knows pro skaters, but if I said the name Garret Ryenolds maybe 1/10 people would know who I'm talking about. I say somebody from scooters, and they look at me like I'm retarded or something. The only way for us to get noticed by the pubic is just to say "It isn't a fad. We are actually in this for the long run." That's what is happening in BMX, the people have stuck with it. We need that, but we also need a ton of progression. Most people wouldn't attempt to do anything the big names in BMX would do. I know people that would say, it's just a scooter, and huck it. They probably won't land it but they tried. We need big things that people want to see, and we need smaller, harder things that make people sit there and try to do it for hours. That will make people attracted to start and then want to stay. Big post, is done, and I type so much more than I think anybody reads.

 

[Jordan Jasa]

You're exactly right. Its about exposure to the public. But what sucks about it is, that there needs to be a huge want for the exposure from the public or it won't be given to them. It's like a screwed up circle. Just like parks around here, the town gives us something to stop drug use, but since it's big in the area already they just drug while they are there. And the parks around here say "no bikes". Skaters somehow put such an impact on everyone. Almost everybody knows pro skaters, but if I said the name Garret Ryenolds maybe 1/10 people would know who I'm talking about. I say somebody from scooters, and they look at me like I'm retarded or something. The only way for us to get noticed by the pubic is just to say "It isn't a fad. We are actually in this for the long run." That's what is happening in BMX, the people have stuck with it. We need that, but we also need a ton of progression. Most people wouldn't attempt to do anything the big names in BMX would do. I know people that would say, it's just a scooter, and huck it. They probably won't land it but they tried. We need big things that people want to see, and we need smaller, harder things that make people sit there and try to do it for hours. That will make people attracted to start and then want to stay. Big post, is done, and I type so much more than I think anybody reads.

lawl i read the whole thing.

if we really wanted this sport to get big, the best thing we can do is just ride, ride, ride. the more you ride, the more likely someone else will see you and pick up the sport. before the public wants to see us we need a bigger rider base. a bigger rider base results in more demand for parts, which creates more companies, which = more videos, aka exposure to the public, which then can make more riders.

so, bottom line, time is the best thing that can happen to scooters.

but i don't really care about the sport getting "big". one of the reasons i still ride is because its cool to see someone freak out because you tailwhipped flat, lol. and we, the first generation of riders, set the bar and trends for future riders to come. w00t long post for me.

 

[Big L]

ya i don't see why everyone wants scooters to be like skating and biking, well ya it would be cool, but i am fine where it is right now same with the people that ride

 

[me1]

Yeah, I definitely agree with both of you. I would like the big in terms of more comps at better places and more sponsors that do stuff for their riders. I like the small because almost everyone that has been around know people and their styles. I know there are pro skaters that I never knew were pro until somebody else told me. You tell me a BMX rider, I know pro or not immediately. I also like the small because it makes us all like one big family. All just doing the same thing that we love.

 

[ghost24]

jarret reid cant whip flat

 

[Snow Patrol]

You're exactly right. Its about exposure to the public. But what sucks about it is, that there needs to be a huge want for the exposure from the public or it won't be given to them. It's like a screwed up circle. Just like parks around here, the town gives us something to stop drug use, but since it's big in the area already they just drug while they are there. And the parks around here say "no bikes". Skaters somehow put such an impact on everyone. Almost everybody knows pro skaters, but if I said the name Garret Ryenolds maybe 1/10 people would know who I'm talking about. I say somebody from scooters, and they look at me like I'm retarded or something. The only way for us to get noticed by the pubic is just to say "It isn't a fad. We are actually in this for the long run." That's what is happening in BMX, the people have stuck with it. We need that, but we also need a ton of progression. Most people wouldn't attempt to do anything the big names in BMX would do. I know people that would say, it's just a scooter, and huck it. They probably won't land it but they tried. We need big things that people want to see, and we need smaller, harder things that make people sit there and try to do it for hours. That will make people attracted to start and then want to stay. Big post, is done, and I type so much more than I think anybody reads.

lawl i read the whole thing.

if we really wanted this sport to get big, the best thing we can do is just ride, ride, ride. the more you ride, the more likely someone else will see you and pick up the sport. before the public wants to see us we need a bigger rider base. a bigger rider base results in more demand for parts, which creates more companies, which = more videos, aka exposure to the public, which then can make more riders.

so, bottom line, time is the best thing that can happen to scooters.

but i don't really care about the sport getting "big". one of the reasons i still ride is because its cool to see someone freak out because you tailwhipped flat, lol. and we, the first generation of riders, set the bar and trends for future riders to come. w00t long post for me.

long but a good one =)