Would you rather be a pro fighter or a pro skateboarder?

[Wilmer Digreux]

If you could choose, which would you pick, and why?

 

[xXxGhost89xXx]

If you could choose, which would you pick, and why?

I’d pick your mom so I could tell you as my son, to stop making shitty threads.

 

[Pequeño Corey]

What a random and wierd dichotomy.

 

[Wilmer Digreux]

What a random and wierd dichotomy.

Not really. The sports and industries are pretty similar.

 

[sph1nx]

my dream was to be a professional snowboarder, not the one that compete, the one that shoot cool videos and get payed by sponsors and get drunk at the pub and get laid
something like this




the problem was i don't live in mountains

 

[USA!USA!]

skateboarder in the 90s early 2000s, pro fighter outside of that.

Is skateboarding still a thing? I know it blew up in the 90s and early 2000s with the Tony Hawk video games and Jackass.. but I haven't heard anything about it at all since.

 

[sph1nx]

skateboarder in the 90s early 2000s, pro fighter outside of that.

Is skateboarding still a thing? I know it blew up in the 90s and early 2000s with the Tony Hawk video games and Jackass.. but I haven't heard anything about it at all since.

board sports are a niche

 

[Wilmer Digreux]

skateboarder in the 90s early 2000s, pro fighter outside of that.

Is skateboarding still a thing? I know it blew up in the 90s and early 2000s with the Tony Hawk video games and Jackass.. but I haven't heard anything about it at all since.

There have been a few clear peaks and valleys in it's popularity. It's in a valley period right now, so it's kinda gone back to "underground" status.

But it's still around and skaters now are doing amazing things.

 

[Pequeño Corey]

Not really. The sports and industries are pretty similar.

Go on..

 

[HoelHomero]

Unless you make it big time like Tony Hawk or Ryan Sheckler then Skateboarding pays nothing.
I was sponsored by a few skateshops in Europe and starred in a couple of brand and shop videos and we got paid nothing basically. If u win a skate contest you get 800 bucks and a pair of wheels or some shit. At least here in Europe.
There's no real industry behind Skateboarding, olympics are a sham, no respectable skateboarder would ever skate in the olympics.

The only thing MMA and Skateboarding have in common is that neither is a sport but both pull bitches i guess.

 

[HoelHomero]

Not really. The sports and industries are pretty similar.

Not at all. WTF.

 

[Pittie Petey]

I'd be a skateboarding fighter that smacks my opponent in the head with my board when the ref aint looking

 

[Wilmer Digreux]

Go on..

Both are extremely technical and complex, with athletes having to make a dozen minor adjustments in fractions of a second. Both are extremely physically taxing, and can be dangerous. Skaters and fighters have similar mindsets....if you're going to jump on a handrail and risk landing on your head on concrete stairs, it becomes a fight for you. And why risk that? Just because you want the challenge and glory if you land it. Both are artistic expressions manifested physically.

The industries are similar too. So much so that people like rob dyrdek have tried to do with skating what Zuffa did for mma. He even went to Lorenzo f9r advice on how to do that. Only the skating community thankfully kept a sense of that grass roots, punk rock, anti-corporate mentality....so that endeavor never took off in skating. And that (the corporatization of the sport) is what has almost ruined mma and led to the stale, corporate packaged, no character state of the ufc we have today. Skaters did not let that happen to their sport. And I love that.


There are many other similarities between those sports, and the athletes and fans of those sports. But it's kinda hard to summarize it all.

 

[spinup]

A ping pong player. They are the ultimate athletes and could dominate any sport if they wanted.

 

[Wetarmpits]

Not really. The sports and industries are pretty similar.

Yeah, totally ...

 

[MileHigher]

skateboarder in the 90s early 2000s, pro fighter outside of that.

Is skateboarding still a thing? I know it blew up in the 90s and early 2000s with the Tony Hawk video games and Jackass.. but I haven't heard anything about it at all since.

Uh yeah, it became an Olympic sport in 2020. Those guys make waaay more money now than they ever did in the 90’s. It’s very much still a thing.

 

[Slapjit]

In my former village, one was been told "Hey you young man! you must choose between #Batlle career or use wood cart for delivery potato taffy to market!"

I decide live not so gracious life of #battle but learn many slap fight technique in process so it was not been full loss I was been feel. I was having still been regretting not stepping my both feet onto wood cart for delivery the taffy, but that boat was sailing.

I hear Western #SkatingBoard icon Tony Hawkins was been #VeryCelebrated in USA for contribution to skateboard and air physics and even have school children dance name after him. I would like to be like Mr. Hawkins if it is at all possible.

#godblessamerica #GreatNation #PotatoTaffy

 

[Wilmer Digreux]

Unless you make it big time like Tony Hawk or Ryan Sheckler then Skateboarding pays nothing.
I was sponsored by a few skateshops in Europe and starred in a couple of brand and shop videos and we got paid nothing basically. If u win a skate contest you get 800 bucks and a pair of wheels or some shit. At least here in Europe.
There's no real industry behind Skateboarding, olympics are a sham, no respectable skateboarder would ever skate in the olympics.

The only thing MMA and Skateboarding have in common is that neither is a sport but both pull bitches i guess.

As a skater you really don't see the similarities in these sports? Srsly??

 

[HoelHomero]

As a skater you really don't see the similarities in these sports? Srsly??

Let's hear em.

 

[Wilmer Digreux]

board sports are a niche

Combat sports are a niche.