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Title: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: white rapper on December 19, 2014, 11:22:33 AM
who are some skaters that went flow to pro?
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Post by: Fongstarr. on December 19, 2014, 11:30:31 AM
This was actually on DLX's site but Chima was flow for Real at age 15 and then a year later, he was AM for REAL.

This was his intro video in 2005:

http://www.youtube.com/embed/wIvLzCdqK_0?autoplay=1 (http://www.youtube.com/embed/wIvLzCdqK_0?autoplay=1)
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: jersey by nature on December 19, 2014, 11:39:18 AM
Forrest is the only one I can think of.
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Post by: Prince Nelson on December 19, 2014, 11:41:46 AM
Little known fact- Vivien Feil turned himself pro.
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Post by: Tony Rave on December 19, 2014, 11:44:43 AM
alec ?
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Post by: zuma on December 19, 2014, 11:49:31 AM
brian anderson kind of
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Post by: GoodguyEh on December 19, 2014, 12:13:28 PM
Sinner went from baker flow to turning himself pro no?
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Post by: TheDraught on December 19, 2014, 12:16:26 PM
Daniel Castillo
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Post by: straight on December 19, 2014, 12:34:51 PM
Daniel Castillo

From flow to pro back to flow
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Post by: ChillMurray on December 19, 2014, 01:15:27 PM
Ragdoll
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Post by: Aatila on December 19, 2014, 01:27:50 PM
brian anderson kind of
really? whats the story behind it?
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Post by: 2thick on December 19, 2014, 01:38:27 PM
Alex Olson for girl. Mike Carroll talked about it in his Epicly Later'd
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Post by: skate_bored on December 19, 2014, 03:01:13 PM
these days the answer is everyone.
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Post by: Jack Hoffe on December 19, 2014, 03:20:07 PM
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brian anderson kind of
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really? whats the story behind it?

(http://tinyvices.verbsite.net/__data/5b7f9988ba99a899fba43605bce20327.jpg)
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: Kanye Omari West on December 19, 2014, 03:27:04 PM
Ragdoll

Nah, he was am for like a week or some dumb shit. He had an am phase though.
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: Kolostrum on December 20, 2014, 08:30:47 AM
Speaking of dudes came from nowhere only to enter the ranks of professional skateboarding's elite, whats this guy's story....I'm sure its an amazing one.


(http://www.jenkemmag.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Doug_Brown_Proskater.jpg)
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: spool of cord on December 20, 2014, 10:33:14 AM
Al Davis & Yonnie Cruz
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Post by: Kitto Horsley on December 20, 2014, 10:42:22 AM
Al Davis & Yonnie Cruz

Wrong
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: shitsandwich on December 20, 2014, 11:09:19 AM
Alex Olson for girl. Mike Carroll talked about it in his Epicly Later'd

Are you sure? Cus I remember him turning pro with mike mo and sean malto. They all had these three ads that came out at the same time
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Post by: QUIT SINNIN on December 20, 2014, 11:14:36 AM
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brian anderson kind of
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Didn't know BA turned himself pro after riding two years for Toy Machine.

Was he AM for Toy for a while before turning pro?
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: CAPTAIN NOBODY on December 20, 2014, 11:51:19 AM
It only took Cory Kennedy about a year and a half.
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: GarbageMan on December 20, 2014, 12:03:21 PM
This thread is trash. nobody knows what they're talking about.
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: Candygirl on December 20, 2014, 12:05:50 PM
What about Shane O'neil?
Was he fully on Skate Mental before his Berrics-part came out?
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Post by: shitsandwich on December 20, 2014, 12:19:31 PM
What about Shane O'neil?
Was he fully on Skate Mental before his Berrics-part came out?

Yeah skate mental came out with that am chowder video a few years before that
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: weaselhead on December 20, 2014, 12:30:13 PM
This thread is trash. nobody knows what they're talking about.
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: paraquat on December 20, 2014, 12:47:54 PM
How about pro to no. Andrew Langi and Darrell Stanton.
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Post by: Harem on December 20, 2014, 01:59:00 PM
This was actually on DLX's site but Chima was flow for Real at age 15 and then a year later, he was AM for REAL.

This was his intro video in 2005:

http://www.youtube.com/embed/wIvLzCdqK_0?autoplay=1 (http://www.youtube.com/embed/wIvLzCdqK_0?autoplay=1)


Is that not normal?
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: Jared on December 20, 2014, 02:05:35 PM
How about pro to no. Andrew Langi and Darrell Stanton.
Keelan on deck.
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: doomstation55 on December 20, 2014, 03:08:55 PM
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Alex Olson for girl. Mike Carroll talked about it in his Epicly Later'd
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Are you sure? Cus I remember him turning pro with mike mo and sean malto. They all had these three ads that came out at the same time

No he was definitely am, his first ad was the kf that huge bump to bar saying he joined on 6/6/06. He turned pro later.

I think the only people that actually went from flow to pro were forrest and sinner.
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: Julz on December 20, 2014, 03:23:15 PM
Ben raybourn is the correct answer to this thread.

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Post by: oyolar on December 20, 2014, 03:25:52 PM
Ben raybourn is the correct answer to this thread.



Except he was am and pro for 1031, then back to am for Slave for a little bit before turning pro for them.  So your answer was super wrong.


How about pro to no. Andrew Langi and Darrell Stanton.

Langi was never pro.



Seriously though,
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This thread is trash. nobody knows what they're talking about.
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Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: Julz on December 20, 2014, 03:39:12 PM
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Ben raybourn is the correct answer to this thread.


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Except he was am and pro for 1031, then back to am for Slave for a little bit before turning pro for them.  So your answer was super wrong.




He was AM for a local company (pretty much the stepping stone for 90% of the pros) and then AM for such a small amount of time that he fits the flow to pro category.  fuck me for wasting time arguing on the internet...
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: Steezy Jeffrey on December 20, 2014, 03:53:36 PM
Raybourne can do anything- so sick . But yeah was pro pretty quick.
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Post by: layzieyez on December 20, 2014, 04:29:25 PM
Was Chris Branaugh am for World before being turned pro?
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Post by: straight on December 20, 2014, 04:36:51 PM
bet sierra wish he kept the product

CCS presents "Pro Flow" with Sierra Fellers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUEQObLqzxc#)
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: The Shogun on December 20, 2014, 04:54:38 PM
Garvey, well deserved and he has his name in Hecox lettering.

(https://www.noteshop.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/580x/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/c/h/chocolate-roberts-chris-and-garvey-deck.jpg)
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: logan chase on December 20, 2014, 05:07:31 PM
Robbie Mckinley went from pro to flow
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: spool of cord on December 20, 2014, 06:13:12 PM
Steve Durante

Rob Pluhowski

Ryan Bobier


all these dudes came outta the woodwork and turned pro and started getting hefty checks
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: YeRpSTAinZ on December 20, 2014, 07:31:59 PM
Steve Durante

Rob Pluhowski

Ryan Bobier


all these dudes came outta the woodwork and turned pro and started getting hefty checks

hes actually one of those dudes who was am forever, from misled youth until a little after new blood
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: Fletschinger on December 20, 2014, 07:36:45 PM
Steve Durante

Rob Pluhowski

Ryan Bobier


all these dudes came outta the woodwork and turned pro and started getting hefty checks

is this sarcasm?
durante was am for habitat. pluhowski as well, and he NEVER went pro.
ryan bobier was forever man am. went pro. probably doesn't have a board anymore.
define "hefty check" in skating too...i didn't see nyjah or p rods name here.....
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: oyolar on December 20, 2014, 11:13:31 PM
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Ben raybourn is the correct answer to this thread.


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Except he was am and pro for 1031, then back to am for Slave for a little bit before turning pro for them.  So your answer was super wrong.


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He was AM for a local company (pretty much the stepping stone for 90% of the pros) and then AM for such a small amount of time that he fits the flow to pro category.  fuck me for wasting time arguing on the internet...

You're joking, right?  This thread is about people who never were am.  You can't just ignore that people were am at some point and say shit like, "That company doesn't count." or "It wasn't long enough."  The fact is Raybourn was OFFICIALLY am for two companies before going pro so he doesn't fit "flow to pro."
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: wheelchair on December 20, 2014, 11:20:52 PM
fred gall
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Post by: poopnutsupreme on December 20, 2014, 11:48:50 PM
I'm really stoked to see that Forrest has been the only one to truly go from flow to pro.
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: spool of cord on December 21, 2014, 12:05:19 AM
i hope fred gall did get that 15k/annual killer check!
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: mtvic on December 21, 2014, 05:24:22 AM
Pj was damn close.  I think he may of had one ad for element, technically making him an am.  Then he quit, dropped the best part of all time and went pro immediately for flip!


Of course let us not forget the numerous YouTube pros.  Nothing like gunning for Doug brown.
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: Madam, I'm Adam on December 21, 2014, 07:05:43 AM
Pj was damn close.  I think he may of had one ad for element, technically making him an am.  Then he quit, dropped the best part of all time and went pro immediately for flip!

I saw one ad from PJ as well, it was a sequence of a halfcab heelflip noseslide nollie heelflip out in the middle of a ledge.  And he was also in a team photo ad.

Does anyone know if Alex Chalmers went from being on flow for Flip to having a pro board after Sorry came out? I know I saw a Flip ad w/ his board on it. Or was he listed as an am for them beforehand?

In one of Skateboarder's Top Ten Things You Didn't Know About... columns, one mentioned that if you have $50K you could turn yourself pro since there's no official regulator of professional ranks, or something to that extent. I wasn't sure why you needed $50K, probably to make your own boards. So that might have happened somewhere.
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: shit_for_brains on December 21, 2014, 07:18:10 AM
Didn't Vinnie Vegas go flow to pro to hobo?
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Post by: oyolar on December 21, 2014, 08:02:43 AM
He was am for Birdhouse.
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: shouldn't on December 21, 2014, 10:31:10 AM
vinnie vegas sounds more like a pornstar name.
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: tom on December 21, 2014, 11:08:17 AM
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Ben raybourn is the correct answer to this thread.


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Except he was am and pro for 1031, then back to am for Slave for a little bit before turning pro for them.  So your answer was super wrong.


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He was AM for a local company (pretty much the stepping stone for 90% of the pros) and then AM for such a small amount of time that he fits the flow to pro category.  fuck me for wasting time arguing on the internet...
he was on falcon skates too

Brent Actchley rank skipped. Not flow to pro, but Satori gave him a pro wheel before he had a board, so Element felt obligated to give him one after
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: DannyDee on December 21, 2014, 02:55:33 PM
I feel some of the EMB guys were never am and went straight to pro as Henry was pro for Real before he was even on Blind. Pretty sure Arto was turned pro really quick after moving to the States.
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: shit_for_brains on December 21, 2014, 03:15:34 PM
I feel some of the EMB guys where never am and went straight to pro as Henry was pro for Real before he was even on Blind. Pretty sure Arto was turned pro really quick after moving to the States.

I always thought with Arto it was so they could get him in contests with his name on a board ASAP. Same with Bastien.
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: mtvic on December 21, 2014, 05:42:12 PM
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Pj was damn close.  I think he may of had one ad for element, technically making him an am.  Then he quit, dropped the best part of all time and went pro immediately for flip!
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I saw one ad from PJ as well, it was a sequence of a halfcab heelflip noseslide nollie heelflip out in the middle of a ledge.  And he was also in a team photo ad.

Does anyone know if Alex Chalmers went from being on flow for Flip to having a pro board after Sorry came out? I know I saw a Flip ad w/ his board on it. Or was he listed as an am for them beforehand?

In one of Skateboarder's Top Ten Things You Didn't Know About... columns, one mentioned that if you have $50K you could turn yourself pro since there's no official regulator of professional ranks, or something to that extent. I wasn't sure why you needed $50K, probably to make your own boards. So that might have happened somewhere.

Yeah he was on for a while before that part, maybe Canadian am or something but he was on.  That guy was the shit, super impressive at any terrain.
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: Get fired up on December 21, 2014, 06:53:29 PM
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I feel some of the EMB guys where never am and went straight to pro as Henry was pro for Real before he was even on Blind. Pretty sure Arto was turned pro really quick after moving to the States.
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I always thought with Arto it was so they could get him in contests with his name on a board ASAP. Same with Bastien.

I think that Arto was AM for platinum before he went to flip.
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: Aatila on December 21, 2014, 09:58:31 PM
Steve Durante

Rob Pluhowski

Ryan Bobier


all these dudes came outta the woodwork and turned pro and started getting hefty checks
Rob never went pro bobier was on since zero started and Steve Durante deserved the pro nod and besides the fact he was am for habitat I doubt his checks are hefty
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: zuma on December 22, 2014, 12:17:44 AM
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brian anderson kind of
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really? whats the story behind it?
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he was introduced to the team right when welcome to hell dropped and went straight to pro. i don t think he was on anything before that.
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: Rusty_Berrings on December 22, 2014, 05:34:03 AM
Elissa Steamer I believe went from flow to pro according to that thrasher radio interview someone posted on here a while back.
Title: Re: skaters who went from flow to pro
Post by: ice nine on December 22, 2014, 03:31:21 PM
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Pj was damn close.  I think he may of had one ad for element, technically making him an am.  Then he quit, dropped the best part of all time and went pro immediately for flip!
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I saw one ad from PJ as well, it was a sequence of a halfcab heelflip noseslide nollie heelflip out in the middle of a ledge.  And he was also in a team photo ad.

Does anyone know if Alex Chalmers went from being on flow for Flip to having a pro board after Sorry came out? I know I saw a Flip ad w/ his board on it. Or was he listed as an am for them beforehand?

In one of Skateboarder's Top Ten Things You Didn't Know About... columns, one mentioned that if you have $50K you could turn yourself pro since there's no official regulator of professional ranks, or something to that extent. I wasn't sure why you needed $50K, probably to make your own boards. So that might have happened somewhere.

someone just posted an interview with chalmers from the sorry era. he says he is pro but never had a pro model(at the time). it sounds weird to me