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🗓️ 17 February 2021
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Nick Dompierre was born July 29, 1986 in New Bedford, MA. He started skateboarding at the age of 12. It became his absolute passion. Nick attended and graduated from Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational High School in the year 2004. His major was carpentry. After graduating he worked for a contractor building houses. Meanwhile still skateboarding when he wasn’t working. Nick would leave MA and go on tours all around the world with his sponsors for events, demos and signings. In 2007 he turned professional.
He is known for his super fast style and and
smooth performance on big gaps and rails. He has appeared in numerous skate videos such as “The Solstice Video”, Real’s “Roll Forever”, “Since Day 1”, and “Real at the Berrics”. He has had impressive results at large scale national contest such as X- Games, Rob Dyrdek’s STREET LEAGUE, Dew Tour, Tampa Pro, Vans Downtown Showdown, among others. In addition to being a great contest competitor, he gained credibility and a massive fan following due to his natural street skate style. His success has landed him on the covers of Transworld Skate, Thrasher and Slap Magazines.
Nick has grown up pushing the limits, whether on a skateboard or racing his Camaro (it’s been said that he drives like he skates -FAST!). He had his first career setback after a motorcycle accident in 2010, sidelining him for a good portion of the year. Upon recovery he was invited to compete in the exclusive ESPN Street League contest
series, which is the brainchild of world-renowned skater and MTV personality Rob Dyrdek. Shortly after his second appearance in the Street League 2011 series he returned to Massachusetts to prep for upcoming video parts and contests, where he took an unfortunate accident fracturing his vertebrae in 2 locations, C6 and T1.
After breaking his neck he started therapy to rebuild strengthen in his back/neck. It was by far the worst injury he ever experienced. He was unsure if he would ever be able to skate again. With months and months of therapy and rehabilitation he was recovering. During the rehabilitation Nick developed a love for strength training. Noticing the changes in his body and feeling of being stronger. After his injury completely healed he continued skateboarding as a professional while strength training too. He then later got his ISSA (International Sports Science Association) Personal Trainer Certification. He’s designs individualized Online Coaching programs and diets for each one of his clients. His goal is to help everyone reach their desired physique and to be as healthy as possible!
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0:17.8 | I've been doing really a lot of work on YouTube trying to make this thing work. So we publish |
0:27.1 | the episode every week. We're going to start putting the YouTube episode up earlier. So if |
0:31.9 | you want to see this, you can see it. Then you want to hear it, you can hear it. But if |
0:38.4 | you want this stuff quickly, you want to consume it as fast as you can, you got to get it to |
0:42.8 | YouTube. I don't know why that was recommended to me. I don't understand any of this stuff. |
0:49.2 | But thank you for listening. This is the Wadcast podcast. We do a show on strength conditioning |
0:56.4 | health fitness, you know, everything that makes you an elite person. A lot of CrossFit. We |
1:03.6 | talk a lot of cross training, cross fitness, strength and conditioning type stuff that can help |
1:10.0 | you a lot in physical activity. If you're doing sports, anything, anything, leading a healthier |
1:18.7 | lifestyle, that's it. I bring guests on each week. We talk whatever it is. Today's guest |
1:24.3 | really interesting guy, former professional skateboarder, cover of many, many, many skateboard |
1:29.3 | magazines, Boston, Griffin, Massachusetts, South of Boston, and ended up becoming a |
1:38.2 | proscator, traveling all over the world as a proscator, breaking his neck and then finding |
1:45.0 | CrossFit. CrossFit's changed his life. He's absolutely obsessed and making strides. I'm |
1:52.9 | not going to say this guy is a games caliber athlete, but with his obsession and his athleticism, |
2:00.2 | watch out down the road. It does take many years, but the guy is talented. I will say that |
2:09.4 | Nick Dumpier, if you're a skater, you probably know who he is. If you, if you're a CrossFitter, |
2:15.8 | look out for him. And I had a really fun episode talking to him because I used to skateboard, |
2:21.0 | as a kid, still do skateboard. I'm just a little too old and I get hurt too much, so I just skate |
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