skateboarder success outside of the industry

[spungo]

Duane Pitre does music.

[shone237]

Herman is surprisingly well off. He and a homie started a company that buys and flips houses for profit, and he also owns his own skate shop. Part owner in St. Archer. Think he might have something else going on too.

Spike Jonze makes movies and music videos, started Vice magazine. Got to bang Sofia Coppola for a while. That's pretty cool.

I think Reynolds is part owner of a non-skate shoe company.

Fred Gall is a successful drug addict/one time fireman

Rowley's pretty good and tracking and hunting big game

Meza has dome some skate consultant work for Hollywood

former creature rider John Ponts was a pilot on that TV show Flying Wild Alaska

Chris Senn and Dressen do tattoos

Spike Jonze did not start vice magazine and he was never a pro skateboarder. He was however born filthy rich, connected and Adam Spiegal.

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Herman is surprisingly well off. He and a homie started a company that buys and flips houses for profit, and he also owns his own skate shop. Part owner in St. Archer. Think he might have something else going on too.

Spike Jonze makes movies and music videos, started Vice magazine. Got to bang Sofia Coppola for a while. That's pretty cool.

I think Reynolds is part owner of a non-skate shoe company.

Fred Gall is a successful drug addict/one time fireman

Rowley's pretty good and tracking and hunting big game

Meza has dome some skate consultant work for Hollywood

former creature rider John Ponts was a pilot on that TV show Flying Wild Alaska

Chris Senn and Dressen do tattoos

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Spike Jonze did not start vice magazine and he was never a pro skateboarder. He was however born filthy rich, connected and Adam Spiegal.

My mistake. He's the creative director for VBS.TV.

[tortfeasor]

Ryan Fabry fucked Sean Sheffey's wife and lived to tell the tale.

this may be the most epic lifestyle hammer of all time

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Ryan Fabry fucked Sean Sheffey's wife and lived to tell the tale.

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this may be the most epic lifestyle hammer of all time

[neko]

I'm pretty sure Alex Klein finished his degree in something, not sure what. I remember him mentioning it back in the day, about the same time I finished college, and I was psyched on it.

But this depends a lot on if you're only talking about pros/ams or just people that skate. There are plenty of people that skate / used to skate (like really skate, not some kid who can barely ollie) that are doctors, lawyers, etc...even just from my circle of friends. Legit careers. If you're talking about pros/ams...that'll be a much shorter list, but still a list.

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Frankie Hill became a dentist.

Edit: Guess he wasn't so lucky when the debt crisis went on and got back into skating. Found this amazing video, puts Bastien's self cheering to shame. Watch him do this mute grab over this ramp and self cheer so hard at a car show at 2:16

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I think he's a dental hygenist/assistant.  Like the person who cleans your teeth, not the guy doing surgeries.   

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True probably a good pay difference between the two but still it's something, I think? I dunno how hard it is to become one of those.

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Dental technician. He fits yo teeth.

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Yup, he makes prostethic teeth and shit too.

This thread quickly turned from 'success outside of the industry' to 'doing anything at all outside the industry'

This is true.  Skateboarders have really low standards for success.  Anytime a skater gets a degree or talks about reading books in an interview, they become, "The smartest dude ever."  It's like that Chris Rock routine about people trying to get credit for something they're supposed to do. 

[DISTANT RUMOURS]

Good point though...

There's a thin line between "being succesful" and "having a steady job after skateboarding". A lot of pro skateboarders are more than happy when they find a steady job after skateboarding. Are they succesful because of that? Well, we could all start a debate about this.

I'd say yes but on a personal level. You could say that it is a succes... because they moved on.

But it's people like:

NATAS: art director quicksilver
TEMPLETON: great artist, known outside skateboarding
JASON LEE: actor, and he did a fine job.
ROSKOPP: great bike company
...

that I'd consider "succesful"...


I hope that made sense in some way or another.

[shit_for_brains]

Mario Rubalcaba is in Earthless.

Natas is a successful artist, as previously mentioned.

Spike Jonez was a founder of Dirt magazine, which didn't last long, not Vice. He's also had success as a director but he was born into that world.

Jimmy Gorecki got a rich singer pregnant so that's pretty good.

And of course Berra, known for getting hit by a bus on Felicity and trying to kill himself on 413 Hope Street. Mostly successful for tricking a real actress into marrying him.

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Frankie Hill became a dentist.

Edit: Guess he wasn't so lucky when the debt crisis went on and got back into skating. Found this amazing video, puts Bastien's self cheering to shame. Watch him do this mute grab over this ramp and self cheer so hard at a car show at 2:16

oh my god, if he made that as a joke i would say he is a comic genius!

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