Paul Rodriguez

And we had like our few brands that were just basically like our few sneaker brands that weren't like mainstream clothing brands, board brands.

So

at the time I was with this company called s a lot of people might know it as es and that was like my first big sponsor and then I got sponsored by a Couple of different board brands, but the biggest one was like girl skateboards and then later on once I

won x games and started getting known in that world that's when i got sponsors like mountain dew and target and at&t yeah those came along after that so um but i was fortunate enough to where like i was doing pretty well sponsor wise before i started um doing contests wow yeah and that was a pretty new lane at the time right like that wasn't really a live considered a living

Yeah, I mean, it still is hard.

The skate industry is hard to make a living.

It's like, you know, you have your handful of guys that do very well.

And then you have your majority of guys who are like just doing good enough to get by.

And then you have a whole bunch of them who are like, you know, still have jobs, get some money from skating, but still work and are figuring out other ways.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's, it's, it's definitely, these are definitely like passion sports for sure.

I mean, I'm sure all sports are, it just happens to be that skateboarding for some reason, just the industry isn't big enough to support as many people who are trying to get into it.

That's interesting.

Cause there, there's definitely a big audience.

Yeah.

it's a huge audience and it's crazy because it's like the fastest growing sport among kids from like, you know, six to 12.

Oh, even right now.

Yeah.

Wow.