Pj was damn close. I think he may of had one ad for element, technically making him an am. Then he quit, dropped the best part of all time and went pro immediately for flip!
I saw one ad from PJ as well, it was a sequence of a halfcab heelflip noseslide nollie heelflip out in the middle of a ledge. And he was also in a team photo ad.
Does anyone know if Alex Chalmers went from being on flow for Flip to having a pro board after Sorry came out? I know I saw a Flip ad w/ his board on it. Or was he listed as an am for them beforehand?
In one of Skateboarder's Top Ten Things You Didn't Know About... columns, one mentioned that if you have $50K you could turn yourself pro since there's no official regulator of professional ranks, or something to that extent. I wasn't sure why you needed $50K, probably to make your own boards. So that might have happened somewhere.