Pro Skateboarders who came from nothing

[cookiecuttersuburb]

Just got done watching the Stevie Williams X Games documentary. Pretty interesting seeing the environment he came from and how far he managed to make it. Who else has came up in the skate game from meager means.

[Donkey Lips]

Jagger Eaton. Grew up with only one privately owned skatepark and his parents would only buy him new shoes every other week. Must've been awful.

[nevrwasben]

B Herman, trife desert life

[brucewillis]

Lou reed

[fredgallSOTY]

me

[Lenny the Fatface]

Pretty sure Ishod was conceived by the Force.

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[kneebone]

B Herman, trife desert life

this was the one that immediately came to mind for me

[Spunkchild]

his part in the newest santa cruz video is fucking insane. good on him

[SatanicPanic]

Andy Roy and Chris Joslin, bit I guess Andy is still working on the coming up part

[igrindtwinkies]

Fred Gall clearly didn't come from money.

[CannerSpaghetti]

Muska

[offkilter]

Mike Carroll had a pretty tough home situation.

[DannyDee]

Mike Carroll had a pretty tough home situation.

Yeah, pretty much a house to him and Greg since he was like 13. A lot of those EMB guys didn't have great situations. Chico family escaped Nicaragua to have a better life in America.

Pretty sure Fabian grew up in a rough LA La Eme neighborhood with his uncle an OG.

I'll say this, I'm not sure how many people grew up in as messed up situations as Stevie's in North Philly. But, a ton grew up with bad home lives or broken families.

[Tuff Lover]

Chico

*"In 1985, long before Chico Brenes started skateboarding, that was the world he lived in. In this fog of war, his mother was shot in the face by someone she knew and the future for Chico was one as a boy soldier in the Sandinista army.."

http://www.xgames.com/action/skateboarding/article/4463674/chico-brenes-back-nicaragua

[ok boomer]

RyaN_SHeCkLeR

[HaveFunSkateboarding]

Justin Eldridge

[DirtyBurger]

Fred Gall clearly didn't come from money.

That's because Fred Gall is money

[TastyBurrito]

Technically, all skaters - and all of us - came from nothing. And one day, we'll return to nothing.

[applejuice]

There is a lot of them, one those stories that I find to be pretty crazy and inspirational is Jahmal Williams.

[franzfeuer420]

I guess this holds true for many Brazilian skaters. Like Luan or Tiago for example

[Croquet temper]

Dill in a Nine Club interview: "I'm white trash, I have nothing to fall back on."

I love that things worked out for him and B. Herman.

[joaopedro]

luan oliveira

came from a poor background, was basicly abandoned by his parents, lost his grantparents to cancer, still managed to become one of the biggest skateboarders from BR, always with a smile in the face, dont play victim, dont keep repeating 2349023423434x that he came from nothing blablabla

will always respect that kid a lot, one of the best skateboarders in BR's history, super humble and cool in person.

[Michelle Obama]

Pretty sure Ishod was conceived by the Force.

[Lowcalcium]

Terry Kennedy and Twuan both came from some tough homes

[Hyliannightmare]

The muska

[Youoverthere]

luan oliveira

came from a poor background, was basicly abandoned by his parents, lost his grantparents to cancer, still managed to become one of the biggest skateboarders from BR, always with a smile in the face, dont play victim, dont keep repeating 2349023423434x that he came from nothing blablabla

will always respect that kid a lot, one of the best skateboarders in BR's history, super humble and cool in person.

that one interview where he talks about his brother dying from some gangshit. They ask him what he’d would do if he didn’t skate and he’s like I would be dead. His eyes were so blank, you could tell he wasn’t just saying it to sound cool. He’s like Shane o’neil’s equal but from the slums.

[Huell Howser]

damn that sounds heavy about Luan. Respect


I'd add Riley Hawk to the list

[fulfillthedream]

otherwise the ones i thought of were already mentioned

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luan oliveira

came from a poor background, was basicly abandoned by his parents, lost his grantparents to cancer, still managed to become one of the biggest skateboarders from BR, always with a smile in the face, dont play victim, dont keep repeating 2349023423434x that he came from nothing blablabla

will always respect that kid a lot, one of the best skateboarders in BR's history, super humble and cool in person.

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that one interview where he talks about his brother dying from some gangshit. They ask him what he’d would do if he didn’t skate and he’s like I would be dead. His eyes were so blank, you could tell he wasn’t just saying it to sound cool. He’s like Shane o’neil’s equal but from the slums.

funny timing
shane just said in his IG story:

My home life was pretty fucked up as a child and once i started skating it took me away from that

probably not gangshit fucked up as Luan