High IQ pros?

[BALARGUE]

Suciu is my favorite skater and I think all the hate is unwarranted.   I've read and watched as many of his interviews as I can, I dont think he comes across as someone who is trying to sound smart when he talks about his interests outside of skating.  He just sound like someone who has interests outside of skating.

Skateboarding has a problem with educated people.
Some will call you genius because you went to school after HS or call you pretentious if you use 3 syllable words. how lost can you be ?

it certainly has something to do with this:

Isn’t this question an oxymoron as the intelligent choice is to not be a pro skateboarder

and a bit of inferiority complex

[MrDuckey]

The way Shane O'Neill handled his career seems very smart. Made the right moves every step of the way without falling into any of the vices associated with the pro lifestyle.

[pizzafliptofakie]

I kinda feel bad for Suciu getting flack because almost every time he talks about anything academic, it's because an interviewer asked him a very stupid question about it.

[Lazyskater]

Dr. Darren Menditto

His IG is drmoose1. He is an ER doctor and a vert pro with a board on toxic.
https://brand-x-toxic.com/products/menditto-cat-mouse-moose-deck-10x32-26

[Uncle Flea]

Seems to me the Muska is pretty intelligent. We talked for about an hour. He refused to go bombing with us. Cuz all us kids just wanted to go bombing with him rather than skate!! Lololol. I'm dying rn.
Also He was right. I should have repeat escaped to LA before I violated probation again. Lol.

Always listen to the Muska kids.

[kook1234]

im a data scientist

[Ninj2]

The way Shane O'Neill handled his career seems very smart. Made the right moves every step of the way without falling into any of the vices associated with the pro lifestyle.

Dude rode for skate mental for close to a decade. how is that smart?

[Uncle Flea]

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The way Shane O'Neill handled his career seems very smart. Made the right moves every step of the way without falling into any of the vices associated with the pro lifestyle.

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Dude rode for skate mental for close to a decade. how is that smart?

This is kinda how I feel. There's no way that someone who's worked that much with the berries isn't full of regrets too. I feel like Shane's more case of luck. Look at little Will.. In my opinion he blows doors on Shane but he's all but invisible.

He didn't get all twisted up in the berries. He ignore them s**** even though he's coming from a gos background unlike like Shane. He's completely the route of gos

The berries hurt everyone except for tpud.

[Cuban_Lynx]

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The way Shane O'Neill handled his career seems very smart. Made the right moves every step of the way without falling into any of the vices associated with the pro lifestyle.

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Dude rode for skate mental for close to a decade. how is that smart?

Yeah, I'm not sure about this one. Didn't he nearly get sued by Nike for breach of contract to DC, but stayed on? Then he got the opportunity for a pro Nike shoe and just opted to slap his name on a worse version of the Janoski. Then left Primitive to start a board company with the Girl Scouts of America logo. He's said no to drugs, but he's certainly made a few missteps.

[Crust]

The way Jerry Hsu articulates himself is quite eloquent; it gives me the impression that is he may have a relatively high IQ

[Shtonk]

Nik Stain is news to me, is there anything out there about it? Like an article or a thesis?

Didn't know Alexis's degree is from MIT either, pretty rad. I always smile about how much GH loves her.

With Suciu it feels like I'd really like to read something he's written and is convinced about enough to put out there. I remember vaguely that a "leaked" text of his circulated on here a while ago. If that was genuine, it's worse than Kyle Beachy.

[Ninj2]

MIT is like basically the farm for the war machine my dawg. Noam Chomsky got hella pentagon friends.

[dr.prestige]

Phil Shao RIP

[dr.prestige]

kevin bradley a genius

I think KB is a lot smarter than people think, despite his poor habits and inflated ego

[skippersoldballs]

Rick McCrank

[DISTANT RUMOURS]

Degrees:
- Diego Bucchieri, Chemistry
- Jimmy Gorecki, Communications
- Dan Murphy, Psychology
- John Rattray, Physics
- Jeremy Reeves, Culinary Arts
- Phil Shao, English
- Ocean Howell, Phd in Architectural and Urban History

[Nosferatu]

Mike Barker has a degree in landscape architecture and seems like a smart dude based on the spot research instagram.

[Nosferatu]

Isn’t this question an oxymoron as the intelligent choice is to not be a pro skateboarder

I disagree with this. What a fun way to travel the world in your early 20s. A truly rational person would realize that is a once in a lifetime opportunity. But you have to have an early exit and a back up plan…

[ryu]

Nik Stain is news to me, is there anything out there about it? Like an article or a thesis?

Didn't know Alexis's degree is from MIT either, pretty rad. I always smile about how much GH loves her.

With Suciu it feels like I'd really like to read something he's written and is convinced about enough to put out there. I remember vaguely that a "leaked" text of his circulated on here a while ago. If that was genuine, it's worse than Kyle Beachy.

stain mentions it at the 1:40 mark

[Willie]

Dr. Darren Menditto

His IG is drmoose1. He is an ER doctor and a vert pro with a board on toxic.
https://brand-x-toxic.com/products/menditto-cat-mouse-moose-deck-10x32-26

I thought he was an orthopedic specialist a while back but his CV says DO.

A guy at FDR dislocated his arm once and Menditto… we’ll say, offered good advice.

A few years ago he was still skating Cab 6s or 7s which I thought was cool - he said he still had a closet full from when he was getting flow.

[MtnDoucheBag]

Shuriken Shannon is smarter than you think.

[Makaveli]

Jack Sabback went to Temple before it was cool.

Ocean Howell wrote a book and has been a professor.

Duane Pitre is a composer.

[Madam, I'm Adam]

Rayssa Leal posted a video on insta of her solving a Rubik’s cube.

Brian Michaud from bootleg and Andy Stone from early 101/Capital etc. both became engineers.

(Michaud wasn’t pro, I know. Still pretty awesome)

[Scarecrow Radio]

I read a quote from one of Jim Greco's grade school Math teachers who said that young Jim was very strong in that subject

[PolkaV]

I'm not familiar with a lot of the new skaters but I'd say a lot of the 80s guys like Gonz, Lucero, Lance, etc., seem intelligent to me.  People that are creating new things or doing their own thing are usually more intelligent than the average person.

I don't think degrees are indicative of IQ at all anymore.  Aside from STEM or accounting degrees, I think getting an undergrad degree today only shows that you wasted your time and money (taxpayer money too?) and that you can probably read and write on a 10th grade level.  Higher education is supposed to teach you how to think efficiently and critically, not what to think.  There is certainly no shortage of dummies graduating from college nowadays.  Largely because the professors are dummies, college has become a money-making racket, and the primary/secondary education in the USA has turned into shit.

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Mark suciu wishes he was smart

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The style is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the tricks will go over a typical viewer's head.

Do you mean applied physics?

[Yakusoku2]

D. Gree McBrain who was pro for Think seemed very intelligent.

[TheDraught]

The way Shane O'Neill handled his career seems very smart. Made the right moves every step of the way without falling into any of the vices associated with the pro lifestyle.

Wasn't there some post a few years back that he is a sex addict?

[Magnolia]

I'm not familiar with a lot of the new skaters but I'd say a lot of the 80s guys like Gonz, Lucero, Lance, etc., seem intelligent to me.  People that are creating new things or doing their own thing are usually more intelligent than the average person.

I don't think degrees are indicative of IQ at all anymore.  Aside from STEM or accounting degrees, I think getting an undergrad degree today only shows that you wasted your time and money (taxpayer money too?) and that you can probably read and write on a 10th grade level.  Higher education is supposed to teach you how to think efficiently and critically, not what to think.  There is certainly no shortage of dummies graduating from college nowadays.  Largely because the professors are dummies, college has become a money-making racket, and the primary/secondary education in the USA has turned into shit.

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Mark suciu wishes he was smart

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The style is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the tricks will go over a typical viewer's head.

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Do you mean applied physics?

Your question lacks tastefulness, blocked and reported

[Uncle Flea]

Bobby Puleo seems very intelligent. Talking to him about skatebloarding and skate adjacent topics it's like talking to my dad about the civil war.
My father was the authority on that shit. Dropped out of school in the 5th grade but was doing lectures at colleges around the time he was in Gettysburg or Glory or whatever movie. Public interest had peaked in civil war stuff.

I hated that shit. To me it did not matter what colour uniform you had. All was racist bastards. And in the reenactment circles it was the northern guys from around the Chesapeake who was the most racist. I never fucked with camp at those things.

Fuckin drop the bomb right here on this field slightly to the left of the actual Antietam. I'll take cover with my brother at the sunken road while we erase all these bastards from the planet.

Kill racist today. No one will miss um

[shockpadsandwristguards]

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kevin bradley a genius

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I think KB is a lot smarter than people think, despite his poor habits and inflated ego

Yea he’s the type of guy that used all of his brain data capacity on funny unnecessary stuff and the drinking doesn’t help him at all but I also wouldn’t say he’s stupid.
There is a certain IQ necessary to make jokes like he does.
College degree doesn’t mean you’re insanely smart. You were just able to focus on one thing during your wildest years.