Leaving The Skate Industry?

[@BrianWingard]

I skated from 1990-2000. Skateboarding does something to you that you can never truly walk away from. I still support skating after all these years. Some of the best days of my life involved a skateboard. My friends dad showed us carpentry when we were building his mini ramp and now I flip and rent houses for a living. Everyone has a story to share but skating has brought us all together.

[@bakeraus]

Same as me, I will always support Skateboarding/Skateboarders anyway I can. It gives you so much and it's important to keep it going for the next generation. I can't skate much now because I'm old and back problems from regular work but I will always wear skateboarding clothes, shoes and will always have a skateboard setup ready to roll.

[@chino_bean9631]

Man I feel ya

[@pauldavies8020]

Skating is still here for you. I’m 38 and it’s still good to me. It’s still fun. It’s just different. I won’t jump off any more stairs for the rest of my life but I will def. Skate a ledge or a mini ramp until the wheels fall off.

[@anthonysmith8321]

Same here. I started in 89 to 2002. Skaterboarding taught me a lot of life lessons.

[@eliasmercedes8008]

Only 10 years!!!! My friend I started in 93 I'm still skate at 2022 I won't stop,I can't stop.

[@SkeletonHandss]

I love all you dudes and this podcast. I’m 31 and out of shape so I don’t skate anymore, but this podcast keeps me in the skate world and makes me feel like I’m still riding. Without you guys, id be completely gone from the skate world. Please never stop

[@darksu6947]

Get off your ass and get in shape dude. I'm 35 and started putting on some weight after the end of an 18 year long relationship, so I got off my lazy ass and did something about it. Try taking walks and start small dude. You don't want to be unhealthy and die from a heartattack at 35 do you? Sorry if I seem like a dickhead, but I want what's best for my skateboarding homies!

[@JT-un7dc]

Your Still young!

[@matthewcharboneau733]

31 and out of shape? Must be married with kids......because that's what happened to me. I'm 20 lbs heavier than I always have been and tried skating again last summer and man does the extra weight not help. After a few attempted tricks I was gassed out

[@gameboysleepyd4277]

YOU DIDN'T QUIT SKATEBOARDING BECAUSE YOU GOT OLD. YOU GOT OLD BECAUSE YOU QUIT SKATEBOARDING. JAY ADAMS R.I.P.

[@TheGhostOfFredZeppelin]

I didn't quit skateboarding, skateboarding quit me.

[@wayneobrien4486]

Traffic no that's not true dude I'm 50 years old and I still skateboard and keeping you young is a mindset if you want to be old you're going to be old you're going to be young you're going to be young

[@gameboysleepyd4277]

I'm 43 almost 44. I had stopped skating a few times in my life due to bad negative choices I had made in life at that time. Even during those times I still looked at the world through the lens of a skater looking at spots and watch other friends shred. But long story short I've spent about 25 years of my life on a board and YOU CAN NEVER TAKE THE SKATER OUT OF A SKATER EVEN WHEN THEY STOP SKATING

[@claysoggyfries]

Facts

[@wheredoyoubelong]

I understand the guys all being pro skateboarding "It'll never leave me" "skateboarder 100%" "I'd never turn my back on skateboarding" but its just like any other career, chapters close in life and there should be no guilt in wanting to step into new areas. I felt during that segment that Chris has some genuine feelings of wanting to express his desire to walk away from skateboarding at times, not due to injuries or falling out of love, but more around a logical approach of potentially not seeing a future in the types of roles available to him, just a general discouragement about his future in skateboarding. Which is totally understandable as you get older. I can imagine financial pressure really starts becoming a problem to older skateboarders that have nothing else behind them to figure out what to do next.

[@solefood7477]

Kelly nails it at the end. Watching the homies skate that we truly support is the best!!!! I don't skate as much these days since I'm 38 and work alot. And I grew up with watching these dudes and seen Kelly, Jeron Chris and Justin skate at demos. It's nice to be able to feel like we're still a part of all this.

[@revoldaily2158]

I have been skating for over twenty years.. most of my life it’s all I had, it always got me through the hardest times of my life, I never stopped I just can’t.. eight straight years of two sometimes three sprained ankles each year, even right now.. I found out I have full blown Huntington’s disease, and I still can’t stop trying to skate every day..

[@justinvasquez8231]

Man I love Jeron so much. Always been in my top 10 favorites

[@TruthSpeaker3]

I’ve skated now 36 years, wow. I feel the progression and mindset of a skater transfers to every area of my life. The process of perseverance has given me confidence in other parts, my art, my business, I know I’ll fall a thousand times, but I get back up and that’s what gives me my unique style and empathy. Now I get to support my son who loves skating and get to ride with him in all these sick parks everywhere. What an incredible journey and community. It’s not everything, you need spiritually too, but it’s a huge piece of my operating system!

[@JT-un7dc]

I feel you! Skateboarding since 84. Still Skateboarding a couple times a week

[@stormshadow1512]

i was in the "industry" for over 12yrs designing shoes for a few high end skate shoe companies. I left a long time ago and now I'm designing and building homes. I don't regret my time in the industry, it was a time and period in my life that led me to who and what I am (doing) today.

[@MrJohnnyb74]

I grew up skateboarding and worked in the skate industry for about 10 years until the 2008 market crash and almost everyone at Adio was laid off. It was a great company and group of people I am still proud to have been a part of.

[@R.CHIZ.Gaming]

I appreciate you guys, I'm 34, had some crazy life events hit me and I'm trying to rebuild my life! Skateboarding has given me so hope, helps keep me driven and resilient.

[@DamnItsJake]

i am 28 and I feel you! it is the same for me, just started to skate again some months ago.

[@R.CHIZ.Gaming]

@@DamnItsJake it's harder breaking into the culture again, because most of my friends have quit or don't skate much anymore, because they're busy with work or their families... Although, there's probably many other factors at play. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@MrFylledal]

Me too 33 years old. Skateboarding gives me confidence, something I haven't had the last 8 years. It's the only time that I feel alive and free .

[@DamnItsJake]

@@R.CHIZ.Gaming well... I also feel like a lone wolf out there. I guess I just literally keep rolling with it and see what happens ;)

[@R.CHIZ.Gaming]

@@DamnItsJake I completely understand that man, I'm and INFJ... That's really what it's about, it's healing getting back on there and rebuilding that relationship, while relationships will never have that grace... it's objectively beautiful.

[@solidrock6524]

From the time I was 15 till I turned 43 I did not touch a skateboard but every time I was around one the energy that it had was amazing I can't describe the energy that just comes off of a skateboard. And thank God my daughter picked one up. Now I'm 45 and I've been skating for 2 years

[@claysoggyfries]

Damn you missed out

[@solidrock6524]

@@claysoggyfriesin the white trash mid eighties small town south Carolina environment I grew up in wasn't conducive to anyting creative or something like skateboarding. From our perspective it seemed if you didn't have a halfpipe you really couldn't be a skateboarder anyway

[@rowley66]

i felt like eldy, i had my first concussion and it was a big one. Then 2 years later right when i got my groove back i broke my knee. i was at the best i ever was skate wise and then had a total reset after both injuries. those back to back injuries drained my bank account especially the concussion with all the head scans. I was so upset at my skateboard and skateboarding that after 15 years of skating this was all happening. i was in my 30s and and my age caught up with me during recovery. I hated it. but of course the urge to hop back on and ride down the road ollie some curbs came back. i realized id never be at that level again but i can find other skate styles to fill the gaps and bring the joy back. From big airs to long mannys. what ever makes it fun!

[@mattmolloy636]

Skateboarding is the coolest dead end job.

[@Shannonkellysk81111]

😂😂😂💯

[@pressureflipin1992]

You can never escape skateboarding, it's the ultimate drug and I'm glad to be addicted. I may not skate as much as I'd like to these days but it will never leave me.

[@GameMusingsWithRaziel]

I skated hard from 1995 ish to 2003/4 then life hit. 40 years old now and picked the board back up about a year and a half ago. Im nowhere near as good as I was then (though Im arguably in better shape physically) and it makes me feel 15 again with all my friends. I miss those times, but I will never not be a skater kid at heart.

[@YoMateo.]

Whoever's reading this, i pray that whatever you're going through gets better and whatever you're struggling with or worrying about is going to be fine and that everyone has a fantastic day! Amen"

[@Ooooooop314]

I’m reading this and I want to thank you very much! I will keep skate

[@forcedlife6696]

thank you..... hope everyone has an amazing day

[@uniteuntie2661]

Yup it’s a bot on so many comment sections

[@Ooooooop314]

@water well that’s a nice robot

[@anthonydavies6980]

I'm 54 and been skating since I was 10. Still skating and coming back from a gnarly knee injury. I've never been in the skateboard industry other than some small time fun tshirts my crew put out locally. Otherwise I've worked in aerospace and have to say that being a forever skateboarder has brought a certain creativity to look at things in a totally different way. Kids ask me if I'm sponsored and I usually tell them I sponsor myself.

[@carlsbirdhouse]

I skated in the 1920's, and I tried to quit around the 80s, but I reconnected in the 2000's once I saw the movie Grind. It sparked a fire that I thought I lost, and realized that every Bam can get back his glam.. But, then I quit again a couple months later once I found roller blades.

[@kevvymetal666]

same

[@JT-un7dc]

Now, your rubber fisting & blading.

[@podcastfnw5262]

I'm about to turn 40 ... I've been skating since I was 15, late 90s golden era..... I still keep a dec in my trunk just in case.....

[@eppyz]

I skated in the 80's and it was a different time then. Cops would chase you down at skate spots, no skate parks really other than some bowls in Del Mar but for street skaters there wasn't much. So it was easier to walk away from vs now. I will say once a skater always a skater. Even to this day i still see a sweet spot and think if i had a board i would totally skate that😁 My mind says yes my body now says you crazy haha😂

[@wayneobrien4486]

Y'all are hitting it all every word you're saying is exactly it injuries create havoc we love it so much that you find the next thing I judge for the Florida amateur skateboarding League I teach kids how to skate like inspire them and that's what keeps me going along with still trying to do what I can do without reinjuring my old ass

[@codysnow4631]

Kelly hit me hard when he said his body was giving up.

[@TheGhostOfFredZeppelin]

Interesting topic, it's so different how everyone treats this thing. I had what some called a "career" in skateboarding but I just suddenly fell out of love with it. I've been skating since about 1999/2000 and haven't skated in well over a year now, I just don't feel it anymore. I'm still watching skate clips all the time as well as this show but I have no desire whatsoever to skate myself.

[@NineHellHeaven]

Once a skater, always a skater. I was never good enough to be pro so thankfully worked hard enough to make sure I could have a decent career. I'm 45 now and still skate a bit but I'm so glad I didn't chase trying to be pro as I'd say it's so hard to see anything else once you've had that.

[@flavalav6757]

Skating gave me an identity as a teen, without I would have been a fat video game nerd for sure and never gotten laid. Now I’m 30, been sober for 2 years and started skating shortly after I got sober and it literally saved my life. Sobriety can suck and be so painful but with skating it sparked that inner kid in me that fell in love with skating 20 years before. If I’m stressed or anxious, I get on a board or go film the homies and it’s the cure.

[@gosexytomatoe]

you should get mikey taylor to discuss this

[@SubBlackIndustries]

it is all about community. what you give into it, you get back at some point.

[@realmoney7593]

Jeron wilson is so cool for being honest and all in on skateboarding, I'm a fan!

[@50blizzardstv]

I love this conversation it correlates with my life right now love you guys and I love skateboarding

[@sdm1568]

This hit deep. I was pro for a while, and things were going great for about a decade, just grinding and making a living as a pro, but then one day I was board sliding down a kink rail for a transworld photoshoot and a bird swooped down and bit my dick and balls off. I'm talking clean off. It threw off my equilibrium and I started having tinitus in my ears, and my feet and hands were also shrinking. It hurt me deeply to walk away from the industry and my family that I had created over the years, but I just couldn't keep on going at that rate. No hard feelings, but I'm telling ya, it ain't for everybody.

[@Skatinsince1997]

Jeron Wilson is a Legend, he's a true skate rat for sure. 😀

[@Gonzs]

there is a lot of people of this community getting old as me and looking forward to what to do and progress as skateboarding teach me and there is a lot of those people playin Skater Xl making our own Brand and teams and bringin back all those filling just in a game, its crazy but it is true and works, im way more happier then months just because i start this shit, and make the what i lern In skateboarding and take it for the new chapter. i swear all the skaters have this feeling and i tell you.. KEEEP PUSHING!!!!!

[@johnnycage435]

I’m 29 and skateboarding is still in my life I find myself looking at the new shoes ,rippers & brands & I still fucking love it even when I clock in the life style I’d beautiful

[@claysoggyfries]

Jeremy the rapper

[@jacobcarrico1999]

Best show in the world. Thank you guys. 🙏

[@mazdaspeedg2380]

True essence of skateboarding helping that little kid out at the park that just got a new board or even got a shitty Walmart board and we let them know to buy a shop deck it’s expensive but if you really want to try to learn how to skate a quality board is worth the money. Then teaching them how to place their feet for a trick or skating and then having a awesome sesh with randoms and hyping each other up to land that trick you’ve been trying to land

[@souzsifu]

needed this ❤

[@uvwevwevweonyetenyeubemuge4036]

stop skating for about 8 yrs due to shits happen to my life depressions,overwork,financial crisis many more i really leave the skateboarding to settle all this things happening to my life but now i wanna go back to skateboarding again it's like skateboarding wants me to get back riding again damn. 2023 Fully recovered for all the past shits happen to me everything settled gonna buy a SKATEBOARD AGAIN.❤

[@wayneobrien4486]

46 years I've been skateboarding I took a small break for 7 years because of back injuries but I never could actually pull myself away from the skate world but I did have to separate myself from skateboard and pictures and other things because if not I was saddle the time

[@anthonysmith8321]

I remember Jeron 411 part when it came out in the 90s.

[@jrmizzgaminglounge]

Should get Mikey Taylor on this subject!!

[@thh4584]

Why so we can listen to his crypto nft bullshit or his piss weak realestate venture.

[@AL_KING777]

Jer Deglopper said the skate industry asked him to leave after being sponsored by Duffs, Vans, Cons, treefort, good times all at the same time, 😂 legend!!

[@dailyshred]

skateboarding has brought me nothing but broken bones and fake ass friends

[@jasonb993]

Easy to leave if they never let you in lol

[@WhatisReal11]

the too nice club

[@johnny_eason_iii]

👏👏👏👏 Can’t afford a 🛹 at all... got injured from boarding & was on crutches for 2-3 weeks this year... sold my complete for way inexpensive to help someone out as I was on wrong sized board Etc. hopefully skate in a year or two mayb🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🎉🎉🎉

[@exploremoreoutdoors]

In the past I had my foot in the door with big names in the skate industry, but I decided it wasn't for me. I'm glad I took my career in a different direction because the skate industry is fucked up, but I'm still a skateboarder for life. Still doing it at 38.

[@luisjesuspichardofuentes5639]

i'm the team manager

[@Ooooooop314]

Jerome said it all!

[@BiGChinGSvideos]

LEAVE THE INDUSTRY JOIN THE SKATEBOARD ARMY

[@estebanlacrosse7847]

Perfect comment

[@bronrivera6698]

The braille army?

[@BiGChinGSvideos]

@@bronrivera6698 No

[@Nimrod336]

Jeremy Rogers...wish he stayed gone

[@Shredzilla]

Garrett Hill is a doctor now.

[@leonneldayoc5715]

I think you should ask Josiah Gatlyn about that because he is the only skater that quit the industry legit not because of injury

[@skate4329]

Someone already did there's an interview view about it.

[@nexismfb]

@@skate4329 who?

[@leonneldayoc5715]

@@skate4329 i mean Crob would ask him personally or an interview would be good

[@jacob4761]

wdym heath kirchart did the same thing dude just randomly left and does his own shit now

[@danielclark739]

Kind of hard to find a new industry that will hire you to a lucrative job when you dropped out of high school at 16.

[@thh4584]

That's why atleast fulfilling highschool, external education or skillset is essential for what comes later.

[@elmotm5441]

Get Rob Puhlowski on the show to talk about this more in depth

[@frusciantesplectrum7980]

You think that’s hard? Try leaving the Skat industry. I remember my employer shouted ‘take your shit with you out the door’ … hard times

[@asawolfe_]

almost everyone in that room left the industry even if it was a short period of time not sure why they are all fronting like they never left. Just say you left and now your back

[@FirstGendodgegarage]

is this commemnt section a diary for grown men lol

[@BiGChinGSvideos]

EVERYONE FUCKS WIT ME.

[@giftedwrapzaz2559]

Andy Howell, Jason Lee. Too easy......

[@DogWhoFilms]

Skateboarding RUINS your body. Teeth… jaw… joints

[@joeydlc]

Well said Dubs

[@Caravanaskate]

Social media is skateboarding now. No thank you!

[@EYEH8MOSTOFYOU]

I kinda get the feeling that Kelly hart NEVER got a good payday from skateboarding and he's kinda bitter because of it

[@Gas.Station.Sushi404]

s/o Wallo!

[@ogbigwasher]

matt beach?

[@notoriousd.a.d.5688]

Still💪🏻

[@BiGChinGSvideos]

YALL BASICALLY BREAKING DOWN WHAT THE SKATEBOARD ARMY IS…..

[@atbta]

I wish i could quit skateboarding every day.

[@sliderx1897]

Yo, Mat Miller left the industry?

[@maxapplegate9446]

About time y’all left give the podcast to people who still skate

[@BiGChinGSvideos]

I am the anti industry

[@m4xripper]

Yoo

[@typerightseesight]

I will never. Leave, the industry. I've been here. It's. It's. Cheer's. The end. (thats a birdhouse video). lol. I'm not going anywhere. Fast. Almost, firm. That's my habitat. An Alienworkshop. Yo. lol. Think about it. lol.

[@bubbler9583]

This segment could’ve been cooler if Kelly and jeron were more realistic. Most pros don’t get the opportunity to do a talk show after their careers that pays the bills. Chris gets it. If your whole life has been focused on one thing your entire life, and then you are physically unable to do it, that can fuck with a person.

[@rhettfreeman8186]

"People don't understand that" like golf isn't a billion dollar industry without handing out free product

[@raffy1026]

They can take it out ur brain not ur soul