Sean Kelly

And bartending and serving and working a little part-time plumbing job, that gave me lots of freedom to just...

go skimboard when I wanted to wow and I won the tour had like 7,000 followers back in 2013 and I went back to work and I was like still feeling it wasn't like Disney where you know the Disney movies where they came up to you with contracts I was like oh yeah I'm a world champion but I'm still a skimboarder so I was like if I'm gonna be able to do this at any point in my life I'm gonna say I did it for at least one year because I'm a world champion now you know

You'd think it'd be lower with drones.

I might not get this title the next year or the next year after that.

I don't even know if I want to keep going after it.

And I had like 7,000 followers at the time was a lot.

So I just leveraged that, got the sponsors who weren't paying me just to toss me a little bit of bones.

And I made a contract.

It felt weird for me to ask for money.

I felt like I was asking for money.

But a guy, a mentor of mine –

kind of put in perspective that like that contract was my product that's what i was like selling to these companies you know just like you have sponsors attention yeah you know yeah i didn't think of it that way as an athlete or what i was doing and i did that and it worked and i was like holy shit i'm actually gonna be able to like like be a pro skimboarder right now and then um

Previous genocides.

got a manager eventually read who I met that, that year.

And he was just kind of helping me like kind of be a middleman for companies I was trying to leverage.

And he was just kind of helping me for a couple of years.

And eventually things started doing better and better.

And, uh, he had long story short, he had other people ask him to kind of manage him.

And I was like, dude, you need to quit your job and do your own thing.

He's so valuable, you know?