High School Dropout to Skateboarding Millionaire Story of Rob Dyrdek | Skate Stories Ep. 4

Rob Dyrdek is the only skater that we need searches name on google it says he's an entrepreneur and not a skater and I quit you sue for their successful skateboarders it's just Tony Hawk but there's an incredibly good reason for this as you will find out in this video and I will show you how rob dyrdek turned his life around from a high school dropout to a multi-millionaire skateboarding entrepreneur in today's episode of skate stories rob dyrdek was born on June 28th 1974 in Kettering Ohio Adira dick was involved in sports a child and began skateboarding at the age of 11 he received his first skateboard from a professional skater Neil blender dyrdek was instantly hooked on the skateboarding he said that I was so focused on becoming a pro skater I was sitting school 1 think about all the tricks I was going to do and then I get out of school and skate until they made me come back inside at the age of 12 dyrdek acquired a sponsorship from the same company at Neil blender was a team member of and the gang of skateboarding career a few years later dyrdek and blender would put their board sponsor and create Alien Workshop at the age of 16 dyrdek decided rhop out of high school and instead moved to Southern California to continue his professional skate career he would later acquire the company himself during his post writing career as an entrepreneur rob was never an exceptionally good skateboarder though don't get me wrong of course she was pretty good but he was never quite good enough to keep up with the pros and placed 4th in his first professional contests after laying a nollie and possible lip slide at the end of a run which she probably should have gotten a higher score for and placed a bit higher because this was 1990 and Street skating was very young and shook like that today is interested but back then was absolutely insane but in his words that was the best he'd ever done at contest and also the best place you've never gotten to I hit the ground and I had rode away like that place I liked it you know magical a magical experience got fourth place it was the best I ever did in a professional skateboarding contest for the rest of my 20-year career Roy had never never got higher than forth and that was it but even at the young age of 16 Rob listing as emissions higher than just skateboarding I I think even when I was very first became a professional skateboarder I used to always say I gotta treat it like a business you know it's my career and this is way before even the idea of understanding that you could be a personal brand and I just think that sort of spirit I was what I like to call raised by entrepreneurial rules right where my influence is at an early age where all of the closest people around me started companies so in some of them I use as examples of not what what not to be right so but it was from starting skateboard companies to clothing companies to to retail stores to restaurants to clubs like this inner circle I had was very entrepreneurial so it it instilled in me in a very young age that that's just what I was meant to do soon after moving in California dyrdek started his first company or on trucks and began a ride for draws clothing a company that later transformed the DC Shoes which sponsored dyrdek he began his exploration of entrepreneurship through shoe design and this land launched various short-lived companies including a hip-hop record label in a skate shop for everyone that's been keeping up in this series and learning about the history of skateboarding this is all happening in their early to mid 90s and Rob was a part of the first big wave of street skaters in 1974 gear that got into filming and began to film prominent skateboarding parts in for 101 video magazine and for his own company Alien Workshop although that most people this may seem like a dream life as a sponsored skater especially I had time on making a living off skateboarding was something that very few skiers could actually achieve behind the curtains rob was facing his own challenges you're in your early 20s and you're making you know hundreds of thousands of dollars a years you're traveling the world you know as a professional skateboarder what's life like man oh it was bizarre and I really lazy you know smoke a lot of weed and in that era wasn't committed to the craft right I think in that 21 to 24 era it was very lost right I didn't skateboarding wasn't giving me the fulfillment that I I need it right now it was during this time that the biggest fear of any sponsored skater happened to rob and VC informed him that he would only have two more years of working with them but rob dyrdek refused to be defeated by this DC I was 24 years old and they were basically like you know your best years are behind you we're gonna give you one more shoe and and give you a two-year contract to basically say thank you and we think you're done I just I remember sitting in there and looking at him and being like man I know it's not lip service I'm not saying to say it but in two years I'm gonna be a completely different person and and there's no way that this is the end and I'm not even gonna say it I'm just gonna prove it and I literally like left that place [Music] started searching for hypnotists right and found the hypnotist the great dr. George Pratt who wrote a book called hyper success right unleashing like your true inner belief that you believe you are meant to be successful and I got hypnotized for six acts and then literally in that two-year span became the best skateboarder of my entire career and but also to the very top of the industry and then from that point on only signed 2-year deals with DC for the next ten years because I was like nah huh two years from now you're gonna pay me even more be it because he was hypnotized or not Robespierre came out stagnation leading up to one of the most important years he had yet in 2003 to start off Rob found RDF rob dyrdek foundation with the goal of building the legal escape perks for communities keep in mind this was the early 2000s and there are only a couple dozen skate parks in all of America this was pretty big at the time then Joe stationed DC's most famous commercial the rob dyrdek chase commercial [Laughter] and most importantly to the culture of skateboarding he had a skate burning part in the DC video released in 2003 this was also the first time you saw a big black as Rob's security I'm bringing a security guard to deal with security guards I have many many different things I knew as far as dyrdek security make sure Rob escapes my job is to do the dirty work sometimes I might have to throw him over pants if he has any problems with anyone wise skating I handle that problem he continues to skip the coop they get one more slide one more you leave one more bit of rock that's antigens there will be a further study no problems keep coming out anybody that's going to disturb Brahms performance on a skateboard my job is to take care I'm also first-aid qualified so if he gets hurt a boob or anything like that you know say nothing that's that's my field too this led to the creation of Robin big which is the best friend reality TV show and we'll so it really made dyrdek known in the mainstream outside of skateboarding Robin big lasted three seasons until abruptly ending because of contradictory to what everyone thought Robin big were not exactly the best of friends and we're end up getting in a lot of verbal fights off-camera although Rob & big was over judex career of MTV was not because of how Rob proved himself as a reality TV show host and a creative director roughly a year after the end of Robin big MTV aired the first episode of Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory which was a reality show featuring rob dyrdek and his friends including big black actually living in the fantasy factory which was his office personal skate park and pretty much a creative space for anything he wanted well I could cover everything that went down the face factor for literally hours the most notable are the world records they set including Ryan largest skateboard the longest 5050 rail grind which is about a hundred feet longest boardslide which is also 100 feet the highest skateboard ramp jump into water which is ten feet eight inches and therefore this reverse ramp jump by car which was 90 feet of course some of these records have been broken today but this puts in perspective what the show was like the reverse car jump was one of Rob's last stunts for fantasy factory before it stopped airing after a very successful run and although Rob wanted let go of MTV and want him on to bigger and greater things MTV just could not let go of him and offered him a pretty nice check to house ridiculousness and then they're like hey like we do it again we do one more and I'm like you know no I wasn't on purpose but I was kind of threatening them threatening but basically saying like I don't want to be on MTV when I'm when I'm 40 I don't wanna be Kurt Loder as we were talking right when they wanted me to do they're like you know do fantasy factory guess it man like honestly it's gonna have to be so much money that I'd be stupid not to do it and then a couple weeks later that I had some like okay when we start so in 2011 Rob signed a deal with MTV for an unknown amount probably a lot and toast the show that he's most known from today ridiculousness in this show he reacts to and shows viral videos from the internet usually involving failed do-it-yourself attempts at stunts going back to 2010 Rob will do something that would undoubtedly change skateboarding forever by forming a Celeste Austin Owens Street League skateboarding not only would have the largest voluntary prize with $200,000 going to first place which was won by well if you watch the second episode of skate stories didn't know who that was but for those who haven't I'll leave a playlist in the video for you to catch up but anyway Street League was the first official professional league for skateboarding similar to the NBA or the NFL is because of this at skateboarding today is taken seriously as a sport and it now provides an outlet for young skaters to look up to Rob also has plans for creating low leagues and minor leagues comprising a path for young skaters to follow this could mean that in the future instead of having an option of shooting to play football or baseball or whatever other sport kids at school can choose kids will have the option to choose skateboarding and be taught how to skate by coaches in the long run this means there will be more skate parks everywhere you look and also provide a brighter future for skateboarding a year earlier before Street League Rob would reduce and star in his own movie street Dreams which he spent two million dollars of his own money on and absolutely flopped the box office later in 2012 he would also create wild grinders a cartoon show that Rob was the main character in it only had two seasons in the imbd scores to our 10s so I'm assuming it didn't do too hot either three years after founding us less travel to revolutionize the way that future Street leaks and other competitions would be scored with is X also known as the instant scoring experience it works by having each judge of a handheld dial allowing for instant intuitive scoring and data input so what does this mean well before is like skateboarders would have to wait to see a score and find out who won but now that square of each trick can be scored instantly and it removes the wait for the contestants and the audience today rob dyrdek is to hosting ridiculousness and is officially retired from skateboarding I can understand why people hang on him sometimes for people saying that he's a sellout to MTV to people hating on him for even creating Street League because of their skateboarding isn't a sport mindset and I get it for some people skateboarding is a form of expression but can also be a support for others and thanks to Robin many other skaters that revolutionize skateboarding the idea of becoming a pro skater is closer to reality than it ever used to be oestrus Elling out sure you can see that Rob sold out to MTV been reality who wouldn't host her own show for millions of dollars in return you have to be stupid not to at the end of the day people fail to realize that rob dyrdek is an entrepreneur first and a skateboarder second he may have started off skating but he was also giving back to the community so much the calmest sellout just doesn't make sense he is without doubt one of the few people that have paved the way for skateboarding into the future and he will be remembered probably for as long as skateboarding is around for and that is a story of rob dyrdek thank you everybody that made to the end of the video and if you made this far you probably enjoyed it so it would really help out the unforgiving YouTube algorithm if you liked this video like and if you're new make sure to subscribe because i'll be uploading more videos like this one in the future if you watched you got the skate stories playlist it should be on the screen right now that's all for your day i'll see you soon

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Length: 12min 36sec (756 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 18 2020