The original list is over a year old. But even then so many of the names on the lists were rediculous.
I'm just gonna say just about anyone that's been am for 10 years and still skating should be pro.
Skateboardings' just so akward now. It's sooo much different than when I was growing up. There seems to be a harsh generational line drawn where you can see the cause and effect of skateboarding blowing up.
Now adays kids are pushed straight out the womb and into indoor skateparks and street plazas, and they're all AM by the age of 15, and all of them "deserve to be pro" cause "Julien Stranger or Karma Tsocheff are established, and those dudes can't nollie flip into handrail tricks". And that type of bone-headed logic is so ass backwards to me.
Like there's a bunch of kids that're real good by superficial standards, but if you bring them to a sketchy bank or a hill bomb spot, they just sit and pout like spoiled little babies.