thats gotta suck 8 months not skating and you are a pro. that is like all he can really make money off of, such a waste of 8 months for him too because thats pretty mcuh one of the only "productive" things he can do, otherwise he is a pretty useless human being. this guy would never go to work for a construction job or nothing like that hed never be able to make it into work on time. thats why people like bici are tight, dude can actually be a contributing member of society.
I wonder how many times he has actually skated in the last 8 months, by choice. Maybe it's a lot. I don't know, maybe it's twice.
Can't you say that about a lot of pros? Companies used to run old photos for ads all the time, even though guys hadn't skated in a year, because they are piles, or had knee surgeries or whatever.
Anyways, 8 months won't kill him, hopefully. I hope he comes back, motivated and ripping. Or he'll be the next in a long line of huge pros that faded out in under two years. It's nothing new either way.