Sucks for you when Dave Carnie gets a hold of them though. Trading Cards: While the youngsters are trying to make their bikes sound like motorcycles by jamming you into their spokes, money from your personal trading card has got you Ruff Ryding all over town on a spanking new crotch rocket. For access to exclusive gear videos, celebrity interviews, and more, subscribe on YouTube! More Videos. More from Adventure. That is the only thing she asked me for, pretty much," Wair says.
These are certainly not staggering sums by the standard of, say, Major League Baseball. Also compare Wair's potential earnings with those of previous generations of skaters.
In the early s, for example, the economic Honda Civic was the quintessential pro skater car. Eric Koston had a Honda. So did Guy Mariano. Tony Hawk had one, too. At the turn of the millennium, even high-profile pros such as Cairo Foster often had several roommates and resided in not-so-tony parts of San Francisco.
Of course, not every professional skateboarder can hope to become a multimedia mogul in the class of Rob Dyrdek or a high-net-worth individual. But some professional skateboarders are probably making "a good living. I got to figure some stuff out. I really don't know anything about agents. I am working on getting an accountant too. So we have a rough idea of how much pro skaters make. But this leads to a second question: What do young pro skaters such as Ishod Wair do with what they make?
If you're Ishod Wair, how do you handle the finances of what has become, whether you like it or not, an actual career? Where do you buy health insurance? What about liability insurance? What is a Roth IRA, and should you, a professional skater, look into obtaining one?
Is there one person who specializes in such issues and concerns? Someone out there who knows all this stuff? Someone preferably steeped in the culture of skateboarding? Someone who seems competent but not stuffy? If you're a skateboarder and feel confused about what financial steps to take, you could call Ryan Clements.
Ryan Clements is the proprietor of Excel, a business that provides a specialized service that would once have seemed laughably unnecessary: personal financial management … for professional skateboarders. The headquarters of Excel are on the second floor of the Skate Park of Tampa, a nondescript warehouse in Florida that belies its status as one of skateboarding's most hallowed grounds. The Tampa Pro and Am contests are career-making events.
Though Clements founded Excel just a couple of years ago, he has worked at SPoT since and currently serves as the skate park's general manager. He considers Excel a side job. Clements' "very clean" second-floor office includes an espresso machine and a comfy couch, as well as skate mementos such as the hammer that veteran pro Jason Jesse handcrafted for him.
Throughout the day, Clements listens to Lynyrd Skynyrd and what he calls "ignorant-ass hip-hop" such as Lil Wayne.
He can hear skateboards clapping against the ground in the park below. Modest though the space may be, it is one of skateboarding's financial nerve centers, the location from which Clements closely monitors the financial affairs of an impressive roster including Paul Rodriguez, Torey Pudwill, Felipe Gustavo, Stefan Janoski, Fred Gall, Shane O'Neill and Bryan Herman. What do you mean that's all they're paying you? Did you have anyone representing you? How did you make this deal?
They don't understand what's a deduction and what's not. Then, at the end of the year, it's a giant cluster-bomb of shoe boxes filled with receipts and s.
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