TPM Episode 17: Tom Schaar, Skateboard Prodigy
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.8 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Tom Schaar is your average 17-year-old...sometimes. He goes to high school, likes to hang out with his brother and friends and gets in trouble with his parents for not doing his homework. In his other life, he’s traveling the world, winning X Games gold and even finding time to buy himself an Audi. While Tom can be the average kid on the personal level, there’s nothing average about what he brings to the table on the professional level.
Tom Schaar Show Notes:
3:00: How did he get into skateboarding
4:00: Being at contest as a kid seeing the pros and getting support from his parents
5:00: Getting sponsored by Half-Pint Skateboards at 10
6:40: Evo (listen for special offer) and Diecutstickers.com (Listen for 10% off your first order with DCS)
8:18: What are his favorite things to skate and does he ever skate street
9:00: Traveling and are his parents going with him?
10:30: Three places in the world he would buy a house and his jet setting life
12:00: Skating with his idols and who has the best backyard set up of the pros and Bucky Lasek helping as a kid coming up
12:55: Skating Mega Ramp and how long does it take to get comfortable on the ramp
15:13: Landing the first 1080 and the response that he felt from it.
17:44: Famous encounters
18:12: Spy (25% off site wide, listen for code) and Sierra at Tahoe spots
19:40: What do kids think of him at school and what does he get in trouble for?
20:30: What is the coolest thing he’s bought with his money?
21:40: Has he had any major injuries and what does he do when he’s not skating?
22:41: Sponsors these days: Monster Energy, Vans, Element
23:32: Did he go to prom?
24:30: Any interest in the business side of the skate industry
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Powell Movement. |
| 0:09.5 | Welcome to another episode of the Powell Movement. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm your host, Mike Powell, and this week on the show, we're going back to high school. |
| 0:17.2 | We're going to have our youngest guest on the program. |
| 0:19.4 | His name is Tom Schar. |
| 0:21.5 | Tom's just 17, but he's a five-time X-Games medalist. He is the first person to ever land a 1080, and then |
| 0:28.4 | he landed it in competition as well. And the most impressive thing to me is Tom landed a 1080 on the |
| 0:33.6 | mega-ramp in only five tries. He's competed in the X game since he was 12 years old. |
| 0:39.2 | When I think back to my life at 12 years old, I was getting ready for my bar mitzvah. |
| 0:43.6 | I was playing House League soccer and getting ready to get into high school. |
| 0:47.5 | I had no TV coverage whatsoever. |
| 0:50.3 | Nobody was talking about Mike Powell and I was your average kid, just like 99% of the world out there. |
| 0:56.8 | Tom, he's not the average kid. |
| 0:58.6 | He's lived a dream life. |
| 1:00.1 | He's made a ton of money already. |
| 1:02.1 | And it's going to be interesting to see how his career goes because at 17, you can make a lot of great decisions. |
| 1:06.8 | You can make a lot of bad decisions. |
| 1:08.4 | And in Tom's world, he's got his family very involved in what he's doing. |
| 1:12.0 | So it'll be interesting to see the next level of Tom's career. |
| 1:15.3 | Before we get to Tom Schar, I want to thank my sponsors. |
| 1:18.0 | They are Evo.com, diecut stickers.com, Sierra at Tahoe Resort and Spy Optics. |
| 1:24.2 | These guys make the podcast happen, and I hope you'll check out their goods and services |
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