Will i be able to get a snowboarding sponser?

Question

ok i am 14 years old and i have only been snowboarding for one year but i am better then most of the guys where i ride i can alreadys do 540's and i am amazing on a rail and im good at everything else ....i live in wisconsin and i am wondering if it is to late for me to get a sponser and i was wondering if you could give any sugegstions

Answer 1

The actual age group people start getting big sponsors from would range from an average of 16-25.  From my personal experience, I can tell you that you have a mindblowing list of tricks yet to master.  A typical 540 or 360, or even landing a decent sized jump, is about as common as having a set of hair on your head, in the snowboarding world.  In contests, I can tell you that winning them, unless you are competing against huge snowboarding icons with household names like Shaun White and Lyndsay Jacobellis, that winning contests are not enough.  Today, you need to be able to corporate tricks and freestyle activity onto off-slope places just as naturally as you are able to on the hill.  You need to be able to pull jumps and tricks off of rails, buildings, cars, and other miscellanious places that would set most people to question whether or not you are smart from doing it, in places that are so dangerous people would question your sanity.  When people are chosen for snowboard sponsors, they need to be able to showcase in live and video situations, on more than just the hill.  There are countless people I have met that all think this same way, and you would be astounded by the competition that there is out there.  In reality, you need to have all of this masterwork under your belt, but this is simply not enough; in todays world, sucess in snowboarding really comes from who you know, not what you know.  Although , quite arguably, what you know know can attract people you are soon to know.  Im not sure what size of sponsor you are looking for, but to actually put your name in the stone engraved in snowboarding history, you need to be the best, and then some, and know everyone else who is the best.  Shaun white started snowboarding when he could barely walk, and was doing mctwists by the time he was 11.  Its not that youve started too late, because many snowboarders have started around your age, but its just that the average person , which i assume you are, are not able to compete with the prodigy of people like Shaun White, and the will to do things that pushes beyond the fear of death.  Dont worry about the size of your body or how muscular you are, alot of the best snowboarders are pretty scronny guys.  Snowboarding isnt about getting sponsored, its about the bliss feeling you get when your looking at the stars while night-boarding, the feeling of landing enormous air, or a set of tricks etc.  If you dont have this love for snowboarding, dont ever consider being a professional snowboarder, because you would probably grow tiresome of it , and become unrealiable to a sponsor.  Love for the sport is a huge aspect sponsors look for. Words of advice, is get out there everyday the hill is open, and dont go there to socialize with your friends. If your serious about this, you could at least win a couple small time competitions, which should be largely enough satisfaction.  Personally, snowboarding is a very expensive sport, and having hit pro status, I have given up my board , and traded it in for a surfboard, moved down south, where the waves  (the equivelant of the hill) pound year round, and doesnt cost me a single penny.  Surfing provides a bigger adrenaline rush than snowboarding, in my opinion.  All the best to you, but dont give up snowboarding all together.  Its a beautiful thing, and if you become obsessed with it, theres nothing wrong with it.  Theres an entire world of boarding out there, all with that state-of-mind.  Good luck.

Answer 2

Only if you are good when you are entered into some comps and someone actually sees you doing it. It also depends on your style and personality - they are looking for someone that shows the lifestyle and the fun of riding.

Good Luck

Answer 3

you kids are always posting this

your never too old to get sponsored, well with in reason!

you wana get sponsored get notice do comps local national if you can do 540's and all that get your *** to the comps any will do get a video of stuff together show it to your local board store and go from there!

its like getting signed to a music label you gota be good and show it!  

Answer 4

if your good enough then u will be sponsored. I've heard the best way to get sponsored is to not worry about it and just shred for fun!!

Answer 5

You wouldn't be too old.. the thing is , it takes alot of tricks, and with those tricks, style to be sponsored these days, just because you can do a 540 does not mean its clean with a nice grab over a pretty big jump. Alot of people can 540 but it isn't clean and smooth. You have to be at the top of everyone in your area, winning compitions and showing it, just because you're better than some kids in your area does not make you better than other kids in the midwest and sponsors are looking for people from the entire country, so you have to be on top, maybe you are that good, and if you are then you have to show it, good luck.