Moving to CA for skateboarding

What's going on everyone? I turned 18 earlier this year, and have been skateboarding since I was 4 years old. Over the years I have traveled all around the U.S. skateboarding. Rather it be for contests or skate trips with all the homies. As I grew older, my abilities on a skateboarding began to develop and progress to a point where I began to realize the potential a piece of wood and 4 wheels has given me. Growing up in a small town in indiana has made it difficult, because the industry is out in California. I have been blessed to live in a small town, and to live 10 minutes from Louisville, Ky because it gave me the opportunities to pursue my skateboarding dream on a local level by getting sponsored by Home SkateShop in Louisville when I was only 13. From that point on I began to start picking up big name sponsors like world industries, etnies, autobahn wheels, etc...This all changed with a hip injury when I was 15. The injury put me out for 6 months which means I wasn't filming or skating contests so I lost my sponsors. When I got back on a skateboard I had this new sense of knowledge about business and how an industry works behind the scenes of what you see everyday. This gave me a knew approach on how I need to go about my career as a skateboarder. I was at the age my parents were telling me to get a job, so I did just that. And learned how to balance skateboarding and workong at a local pizzeria. This gave me the chance to start learning how real life worked. This is when skateboarding took a turn for the better for me as an individual. I began too see that the childhood fantasy of where I would be when I was older, was starting to take shape. I was following the path of my dreams all along rather if it felt that way in the moment or not. The results where there and they were staggering. I started to understand how skateboarding laid the foundation to my thinking, learning experience, and life as a whole. It was around this time I realized how such a simple thing as a skateboard could define ones entire perspective and life as a whole.







The position I'm in today is the feeling of being trapped. I held the job at my local pizzeria for 3 and a half years and became a manager. While skating every single day. Filming for video parts, and traveling out west for contests, filming, school, etc..I was saving up to move out to California next April, but the life hit me, and my job closed down. So now I am in a position of starting a new job and having to start from scratch. I now ride for HUF, Royal Trucks, and Home skateshop. I have gotten to a point to where I feel like I keep hitting a brick wall. I have gone as far as I can with skateboarding locally, and have gotten my foot into the door to where i need to be to make it as a skateboarder. What holds me back is simply the location of where I live. Skateboarding isn't what it is here as it is out there and I'm determined to make it out there and make it. I know if I don't at least try, I will regret it for the rest of my life. This has been one hell of a journey so far and I'm stoked to see where it takes me! Any view, share, or donation is appreciated dearly!















-Alex