Is Dylan Jaeb off Primitive??

[jums]

Crazy someone who fakie flipped Wallenberg, was shortlisted for SOTY twice and is constantly putting out quality footy isn't even pro. What do you even had to do to turn pro now?

He might be a kook behind the scenes.

[Texas_Tone]

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Crazy someone who fakie flipped Wallenberg, was shortlisted for SOTY twice and is constantly putting out quality footy isn't even pro. What do you even had to do to turn pro now?

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Maybe he should take notes from Marbie or Beatrice…

Found the dickhead!

[Gray Imp Sausage Metal]

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Crazy someone who fakie flipped Wallenberg, was shortlisted for SOTY twice and is constantly putting out quality footy isn't even pro. What do you even had to do to turn pro now?

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Maybe he should take notes from Marbie or Beatrice…

meaning?

[Buttworm]

Time to pack it in Paul

[coyote2425]

Crazy someone who fakie flipped Wallenberg, was shortlisted for SOTY twice and is constantly putting out quality footy isn't even pro. What do you even had to do to turn pro now?

May depend on the company, but do riders get any say when they turn pro? Feel like I've read interviews with people who were offered it, but turned it down saying they didn't think they were ready yet.

[DCLOVE]

I thought it was clear he was supposed to go pro with that video last year and head up “supermoon” but Paul is a financial dumbass and the companies pretty close to going under so they can’t turn him pro. I’d imagine primitive will be shuttered in 6 months and he’ll go pro for real or April.

[JugeL]

I’ve heard hes declined turning pro several times. Didn’t bother asking why tho.

[spooky electric]

If I owned a company and was sponsoring someone already, I don't think I would be that stoked on them "not wanting to turn pro yet". Like, what the else are you doing and why are you riding for this company? At this point in time, is there really any difference in the activities of a high profile "am" like Dylan Jaeb and a "pro" skater?

[Ghost Face]

If I owned a company and was sponsoring someone already, I don't think I would be that stoked on them "not wanting to turn pro yet". Like, what the else are you doing and why are you riding for this company? At this point in time, is there really any difference in the activities of a high profile "am" like Dylan Jaeb and a "pro" skater?

Surely being pro means getting paid and having to deal with tax etc and being an adult. Maybe he just doesn't want to "adult" right now. Maybe the contract had some clauses in he just doesn't want to for fill and would rather just keep getting team boards with little to no obligation while your boss gives away Tesla's and does kooky collabs.

[Pete]

Haha what dude I never know who’s trolling anymore but he likely gets paid more as an am than most pros that don’t skate for supreme-adjacent brands or primitive. And they’re not paying him under the table, but yeah he probably turned down going pro “because taxes”. Solid take if true


Free max b

[DCLOVE]

I’ve heard hes declined turning pro several times. Didn’t bother asking why tho.

Would honestly makes sense he’s had one legit part and he seems to be trying to do a pretty classic career and I could see him wanting to drop a solid part before he goes pro. Dude has a good head on his shoulders.

[shannamal]

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If I owned a company and was sponsoring someone already, I don't think I would be that stoked on them "not wanting to turn pro yet". Like, what the else are you doing and why are you riding for this company? At this point in time, is there really any difference in the activities of a high profile "am" like Dylan Jaeb and a "pro" skater?

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Surely being pro means getting paid and having to deal with tax etc and being an adult. Maybe he just doesn't want to "adult" right now. Maybe the contract had some clauses in he just doesn't want to for fill and would rather just keep getting team boards with little to no obligation while your boss gives away Tesla's and does kooky collabs.

if you think ams don't get paid by major brands, i would love to know what year you think it is


also ll at "dealing with taxes". its not that fucking hard man

[TwisT]

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If I owned a company and was sponsoring someone already, I don't think I would be that stoked on them "not wanting to turn pro yet". Like, what the else are you doing and why are you riding for this company? At this point in time, is there really any difference in the activities of a high profile "am" like Dylan Jaeb and a "pro" skater?

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Surely being pro means getting paid and having to deal with tax etc and being an adult. Maybe he just doesn't want to "adult" right now. Maybe the contract had some clauses in he just doesn't want to for fill and would rather just keep getting team boards with little to no obligation while your boss gives away Tesla's and does kooky collabs.

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if you think ams don't get paid by major brands, i would love to know what year you think it is


also ll at "dealing with taxes". its not that fucking hard man

“For me it’s like, I’d rather be a broke 21 year old then Pay HR Block 200$ once a year” Dylan Jaeb Probaly

[PalaceButtPlug]

Do some people think that pros get paid with income tax taken out?

No matter if you are an am or a pro, if you get paid it's your responsibility to pay taxes on your annual income, companies bank on kids being too dumb to figure this out hence why so many music artists, independent contractors and skaters are penalized or arrested after being taken advantage of.

So, if dylan was getting paid more as an am than the pros, the same tax situation would be present.

[augustmoon]

Maybe they can do another Kikoman collab.  Surely that will get them out of the red

[Rein]

Just noticed he is off the team page. IG comments saying he is riding Quasi boards?

[Massivebellend]

of** for fuck sake, get it together people

[Beardedpirate]

Just noticed he is off the team page. IG comments saying he is riding Quasi boards?

So does that mean a pro board wasn’t on the cards for a long way off at primitive then, and Quasi gave a better offer? 

[Dirty Douggie]

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Just noticed he is off the team page. IG comments saying he is riding Quasi boards?

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So does that mean a pro board wasn’t on the cards for a long way off at primitive then, and Quasi gave a better offer?

I remember hearing he wanted to postpone the pro board to make it something that had some meaning. But i have no doubt that he was making good money, as one of the most promising Nike skaters.

My take is that meanwhile, he simply outgrew Primitive. He was very young when he got on, and it is very likely that his tastes evolved in these very formative years. I did not particularyly appreciate his skating before (the skills have always been undeniable though) but i clearly saw an evolution in those last two years where he diversified his spots, travelled more, skated with cooler cats, etc.

Quasi is simply much more fitted to the direction he was to take his skating.

[BurnBurningBurnt]

After Primitive was sold the plan was to finally turn him Pro along with Filipe. Looks like they waited too long. I was hoping he ended up on Real with Toby.

[Rick Trapasso]

DJ seems to be hopping around a bit, I remember when a young kader was getting criticized pretty heavily for the same thing....

As petty and selfish as it sounds, I do wish kader stayed on baker though.

Can't really say the same for any of Jaeberoni's sponsors. None of them have seemed nearly as significant as kader on baker.

[WPG]

DJ seems to be hopping around a bit, I remember when a young kader was getting criticized pretty heavily for the same thing....

As petty and selfish as it sounds, I do wish kader stayed on baker though.

Can't really say the same for any of Jaeberoni's sponsors. None of them have seemed nearly as significant as kader on baker.

IDK if leaving Zero and DC AM is comparable. Kader Left Baker with a pro board, left Emerica Am for Vans, and left Vans after multiple pro colorways, IIRC Kader's Vans shoe with the skull doodles came out right as he made the jump to Adidas.

[Kielwasser]

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Just noticed he is off the team page. IG comments saying he is riding Quasi boards?

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So does that mean a pro board wasn’t on the cards for a long way off at primitive then, and Quasi gave a better offer?

It's pretty obvious he wants to be the kind if Nike skater that mainly pops up in edits by Johnny Wilson / Tor Strom / Wheatley etc. Primitive is not the kind of brand that gets you there.

[moneen]

love seeing him out in europe with korahn, eetu and that. Jaeb on Café 

[MikeCyclopsfromNASA]

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DJ seems to be hopping around a bit, I remember when a young kader was getting criticized pretty heavily for the same thing....

As petty and selfish as it sounds, I do wish kader stayed on baker though.

Can't really say the same for any of Jaeberoni's sponsors. None of them have seemed nearly as significant as kader on baker.

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IDK if leaving Zero and DC AM is comparable. Kader Left Baker with a pro board, left Emerica Am for Vans, and left Vans after multiple pro colorways, IIRC Kader's Vans shoe with the skull doodles came out right as he made the jump to Adidas.

Wasn’t Kader also on Nike briefly right before Adidas (for like maybe a month)? And I could’ve sworn he had an Emerica slip on colorway come out right before he left for Vans (might just be the Vans shoe you mentioned).

I think he fits well on Adidas even if it took a few bouts of sponsor hoping.

[banjoeye]

Thank you OP for spelling "off" correctly.

Dylan Jaeb is phenomenal.

[Fongstarr.]

Maybe he didn't want to be pro cause he knew inside he wanted to leave Primitive. Being pro and leaving is far worse than leaving as an AM.....no?

[rawbertson.]

Maybe he didn't want to be pro cause he knew inside he wanted to leave Primitive. Being pro and leaving is far worse than leaving as an AM.....no?

That's a good point, I don't think it would be a good career move to be in the bad books with the Rodfather. Regardless of what you think about him, you can't really deny the influence he has on the game. It would be a really bad look to go pro on there and leave etc. and maybe he was just honest with Paul and said he has bigger ambitions than primitive which is pretty reasonable considering he is kind of a "once in a generation" type skill level.

 I also think its fried to assume he is not doing fine with his sponsors financially  i dont think he is in any sort of rush to do anything which is pretty rare for skateboarding, sounds a bit like the janoski story where he turned down an etnies pro model - he likely also had the self awareness to understand how mcuh his "brand" was worth at the time. From what I have seen, he seems to be an intelligent human being.

People need to stop getting so caught up on the title of "Pro" as if it means anything more than a Marketing scheme to sell more boards because it has a guy's name on it. There are children in Japan and Brazil who you can probably ollie over who are already superior skill level to even most of today's Pros. I think that is kind of looking at things in a vacuum when you say "well so and so has a board so why doesnt Dylan".

there are definitely plans for that guy to have a pro board with his name on it and everything is a profit maximization strategy ultimately, the timing just has not been there. If you consider in previous generations, it was a revolving door, so they had more room to turn people pro more often. and also the pay was so non existant as an "am" no one would turn it down just to survive. Most companies dont really do "Ams" anymore. its just flow to pro.

the big companies have a ton of guys over 30 on your team with families and shit now. it is a completely differnet landscape. there are more legacy / legend status type pros as that sort of roster grows too. Element had like 30 pros for awhile. people clowned on it but they were keeping a lot of pros afloat who would have otherwise just did construction and fell off

[Dooky-shoes]

Maybe he didn't want to be pro cause he knew inside he wanted to leave Primitive. Being pro and leaving is far worse than leaving as an AM.....no?

I think turning pro and leaving is a bad look. He was really methodical with his sponsors. He was never really on DC or Zero, just flow and went sponsorless for a bit before primitive and Nike.

I remember a story about Shane blocking Blind from turning Yuto pro so his debut could be with April.

[manuduncan]

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Just noticed he is off the team page. IG comments saying he is riding Quasi boards?

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So does that mean a pro board wasn’t on the cards for a long way off at primitive then, and Quasi gave a better offer?

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It's pretty obvious he wants to be the kind if Nike skater that mainly pops up in edits by Johnny Wilson / Tor Strom / Wheatley etc. Primitive is not the kind of brand that gets you there.

this is the answer

before he started skating quasi decks i thought he might become the token non-european on passport because he's with eetu a lot but it was clear he doesn't want to be stuck in the primitive park and be forced to be in PSL or whatever

i just hope kyonosyuke takes notice and jumps ship also.  aimu fits more into the traditional primitive mold so he'll probably stay