Career in Freestyle

[Fye]

I find this discussion rather useless. I think i can have an opinion here since i have been a fulltime professional for years (i dont live with my mother and i pay my own bills of freestyle all year round)

Being a pro has something to do with skills offcourse, but like stated offcourse not everything. Its a mix between many things.

- talent
- social skills (good talker)
- luck
- meeting the right people
- age (alot of companies only take people that are older)
- know how to run a business (paper work like handling invoices, taxes visas etc etc)
- reliable as a worker (show up on time, work hard )



but the most important thing is ...giving up everything else besides freestyle. There is no time for hobbies and its even hard to meet your friends alot since you are travelling constantly. This is a thing you have to be willing to do .....and by far the hardest challenge (for me at least) as a pro sporter.

edit
as far as the video / lp discussion. I dont think that matters ...a good freestyler is good on video and on lp (btw ..i am not saying i am any of those)

this is one of the reasons i admiring you...!!!!! Dan this coment inspire me a lot... i dont care if i cant live of freestyle, but make sure im gonna try it... i think i did the first step... im sure if i wish whit all my heart im gonna get it (dont care if call me gay) btw.... Séan is a lot better than oli... :rockit:  xDxDxD

[BigMac]

Hey Bigmac, im just curious as im new. I really enjoy freestyling and i dont want to stop. :S

Its not that im here to make money, i mean come on.. seriously? Im here because i want to freestyle, not to get a paycheck :L

you should start first :3some:

[DanTheMan]

HAHAHAHAHAHA LMAO MACCA

[anhkhoashevakt]

If you don't think realistically, your ****ed.

who said so?
people who always think realisticly and never think outside the box are the boring 9 to 5 guys in offices all over the world
I'd rather be a pro freestyler struggling to pay the bills than to be a middle-class office worker or builder

think big is what i would say, if you aim high but you dont make it, at least you tried unlike the "realistic thinkers"

Those guys who are "boring 9 to 5 in offices around the world" can actually make more money than a pro freestyler do. In fact, if you get a little bit nice job that that like a doctor for instance, you won't be living in an exciting life, but still earn lots and lots more money than being a pro freestyler.
But the point I'm trying to make here is not that you can't live out of freestyle, it just that if you want to live to be a pro in anythang, for example a pro freestyler, accept both its pros and cons. For example you must accept that you won't be earning as much and as consistent amount of money, also the lack of time to visit your close ones... etc... , but you can enjoy travelling around the world and inspire many people. Accept both pros and cons and don't think about money. If you think about the money, try to be a CEO instead.

[Harvs]

With Freestyle being such a young sport at the moment it is very hard unless you do alot of LP's to make a proper income (ie house, car etc) from the sport, as endorsement deals are where the big money is at and we probably wont be at that stage for a few years yet.

We have been going for just on 8 months now and have 1 Full Time Freestyler and hopefully by the end of this month we will make that two, but that is after alot of hard work in booking over 80 LPs, having the right image, talented freestylers and getting the right contacts which only a person in business working 24/7 for freestyle can do.

I think a few more people will be able to make it as a pro in the next 12 months (from different countries) if everything goes according to plan.

[chchfs]

good point paul
i see where u are coming from
it must be very difficult to become professional
u have to have lots of contacts, charisma, style and personality
otherwise your screwed
and you have to be prepared to live the fs lifestyle

[Oysta]

I think it is possible to do Freestyle full-time of course. I think the best way to get on that road is to have a part-time job and then do Freestyle part-time until it takes off. When it takes off for you then you start travelling and get more and more into it. Anything is possible if you put your mind to it.