33 years old dentist, married with children: Been working 9 years for the public health system in my country, currently on a brand new hospital in the driest desert in this world (yeap Chile). Ive talked about my skating life since day one over here, its part of my life and stopped caring about what anyone thinks a long time ago; got used to people, classmates, professors and doctors looking me weird just for carrying the board; I always proved everyone wrong and showed my academic skills were never affected by skating.
I started at 10 years old and I was always the only "real skater" at school and university, a lot of my OG homies came from hard backgrounds and never made it out of school. I was a good student but a huge skate rat too. I figured early I wasn´t gonna be a pro skater but if I studied enough I could sponsor myself... and I did.
Overall its only been good vibes at work, Im known as the "dentist that skateboards" but Im not the craziest dude over here, by far: some doctors or nurses are into this insane 40 k marathon runs or triathlons... dude come on do you want to die? for real? you did how many miles this week?
I studied and work as a dentist, I do my job and I try to do my best; but if you ask me, Im a skater first and foremost, Im actually really proud of it cause my skating life taught me some important life skills.
Get out of the closet dudes, we made it, we were the nerds and now everyone wants to bite our shit, chin up. Maybe we aren't that cool cause we are old but, come on, I can kickflip better than your son