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Viral BMX Pro Nigel Sylvester’s only competition is himself

Boardroom Talks

Boardroom Podcast Network

Business, Entrepreneurship, Sports

4.4620 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Nigel joins Rich Kleiman for a conversation about his unique career in BMX. Together they dive into the early years of Sylvester’s career, including falling in love with bike riding after accidentally performing a life changing trick, how his uber-viral video shook up the industry and ignited his pro career including a multi-year deal with Nike at 18-years-old, the plethora of partnerships that followed, and much much more.

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0:00.0

Man, there were like TV stations and media outlets and websites them all around the world.

0:05.7

Hitting me directly like, can we post this video? We love it. I knew at that point we had something.

0:13.8

What's up, everybody, and welcome to another boardroom out of office. Today, I'm sitting with a

0:20.0

New York native, a legendary New Yorker, someone

0:22.9

who's used the city as a backdrop to his greatness, which I obviously admire as much as anything.

0:29.8

And someone who's going to tell you their story today, then I know you'll all be blown away by.

0:33.6

So please welcome to the show, my friend, Mr. Nigel Sylvester.

0:39.3

Appreciate you, man. That was amazing. Wasn't that good right off the top?

0:41.3

That was smooth, man.

0:42.3

That's what I do. Freestyle.

0:44.3

One take.

0:45.3

So if someone introduced you to like a layman,

0:49.3

because I think there's a lot of kind of phrases one could use,

0:53.3

what would you use to describe yourself in that like one or two seconds that you get when you meet someone? Man, that's a hard one, bro. But do you go BMX biker or are you- Definitely, it would be he's a professional BMX athlete. That's what, and that's what you would say. Yes, what I would say.

1:11.5

I respect that.

1:11.9

I like that.

1:15.9

Because I think sometimes people that have so much that they do, these entrepreneurs or talent that goes on to build an entire enterprise, like to list off like,

1:22.6

nah, you can't even call me a BMX by there.

1:24.7

And it's like, no, it's okay to rest on like what it was that you know

1:29.0

opened up the world to you of course and like at the core that's what it is yeah like I still go

1:34.3

outside and around my bike and have that feeling right like I get the energized I get the adrenaline

1:40.0

rush when I'm on my bicycle cutting through traffic going like up the wrong way you know something like that so only you can do that bro no it's amazing bro i love it it's your paint brush it's your microphone it's everything it's everything it's everything man it's it's it's sometimes the actual canvas of like what i want to create yeah it's literally an extension of myself like, you know, we'll get into all of this, but even coming into this interview when I asked like, you know, where you had been, you were in Barcelona and Miami for two different brands. And I think about this a lot as it, you know, relates to my relationship with Kevin and being his manager and thinking about where basketball has taken him

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