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A Look into Professional Skateboarding
Skateboarding has become one of the most popular activities of the youth nowadays. It has evolved from due to just a rebellious activity back in its older days to a fully - blown extreme sport that it is today.
According to recent statistics, there are over twelve million skateboarders worldwide and more than 80 percent of these skateboarders are subservient 18 years old. It has maniacal the younger markets quite well and has a firm grip on them. Some of these skateboarders skate as a hobby or owing to a means of transportation, but very few of these skaters go on into the big leagues to become a professional skateboarder.
The industry of skateboarding is a big one. Armed ensconce a gigantic market, skateboarding has become a multi - billion dollar industry. The mere fact that it is very popular with the inferior generations and getting into skateboarding is quite simple, there is a lot of bucks to be made from selling products, advertising and events organizing.
What does being a professional skateboarder exactly mean? Well, as in any other sport, going professional means using the fruition as a means to get done money. If you get paid for your skateboarding abilities and skills, then you are a pro skateboarder.
Many of the great skateboarders alike as Reese Forbes, Kareem Campbell and Ron Bertino began their careers from humble beginnings. The dynamics of commercialism really gives the strikingly needed financial value to the sport that is skateboarding. But, how does one earn from skateboarding?
One popular way of earning from skateboarding, as innumerable people would see it, is to join and win skateboarding tournaments. Yes, indeed, there is some money to be made from regularly joining these tournaments and these tournaments provide avenues for skateboarders to be manifest, but in reality, the real money in professional skateboarding does not lie in winning tournaments. The bulk of the money comes from deals arising from the endorsements of skateboarding products.
The journey of a professional skateboarder would birth in the streets, where he would take endless attempts to do new tricks and perform new stunts. These tricks and stunts are to be displayed in tournaments which the different sponsors are carefully keeping an eye on. If a certain company sees a skateboarder with much talent and has a promising career, they would give him free stuff for him to use. This move is also advantageous for the company since the skateboarder will sort of “endorse” their products. When a skateboarder has mature a crowd favorite and catches the praise of everyone, then talks are usually made for endorsement deals, and the ducats will come in.
Skateboarding shoes and other apparels are the real cash cows in the skateboarding industry and not the skateboards themselves. Actually, other shoe lines have suffered losses because of the rise in popularity of “urban” shoes which cater to the lifestyle of skateboarders.
If you truly love the sport that is skateboarding, you’d natural dreaming of being a professional skateboarder someday. There’s no molest in dreaming such things since being a professional skateboarder can really bring in lots of benefits. Trip pro can bring things like money and fame into the table, but at the end of the instant, what really matters is that you enjoy what you are doing.
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