What's your warning for skateboarders who want to turn pro?

What's your warning for skateboarders who want to turn pro?

Tony Alva (Pro Skateboarder) gives expert video advice on: How do I go from an amateur skateboarder to being a pro-skateboarder?; How many skateboarders turn pro every year?; What kind of money can a pro-skateboarder make? and more...

I think the warning, the basic warning for me would be to learn to fall. That's like probably one of the main things is like, along with learning how to skateboard really well, you better learn how to fall. You better learn how to bounce back and like basically maybe even have some skills that come from tumbling or from Judo or from even if you're a diver or a swimmer or anything, any other type of athletic thing that you've been into at a younger age, to where it gives you not only a center of balance, but also when you're actually in the air and out of control or in a bad situation, you know how to get out of that situation in the safest way possible.