This guy and it never mattered..I think I mixed up skill with trick selection
Donger did stuff 25 years ago that few people could do today (last kickflip!) with amazing style and the guts do to his own thing 100 percent. Plus very few people had decent pop back then. That part is absolutely timeless.
Time period wise, that era is the place to look though I think. Seems to me like if you had a white tee, blue jeans, a company owned by your buddies and some half decent tailslides and crooks and you might have stood a decent chance of turning pro in 96/97.
What do you guys think, in what era was it easiest to become a pro?