![]() It's just their talent and they're like, not from this world. "It's not the coaches, it's not the skatepark, it's them. "They take it really seriously," he said. He's amazed by the teens' dedication every day. She's kind of in a league of her own," he said. "People are gonna compare girls to her now. ![]() "I've always been hated on for being a girl skateboarder but I've never thought of it as 'I'm a girl skater.' I just wanna think of it as 'I'm a skater,' not identifying it by gender."Īlana is unlike any other girl in the sport, said Kids That Rip skateboard coach Kyle Adams, 32, who has known the teens for three years. It's a promise to herself and her mom that she won't do drugs or drink, instead choosing to focus on her passion for skateboarding, she said. She recently got her first tattoo – with her parents' permission – a small drawing of a skateboard with a heartbeat in between the wheels. The teen years have brought new challenges for the skaters, especially Alana. "He was coming up to me and he said my name before I even introduced myself and knew who I was, so I was freaking out!" "When I went to go talk to Lil Wayne it was crazy 'cause he's super into skateboarding too," she said. Last September, Alana met rappers Drake and Lil Wayne at their concert in Phoenix. They've been to Barcelona, South Africa, China, Australia, Brazil and Sweden, the last of which Alana said has the coolest girl skaters.Īnother perk is celebrity exposure all have met some of skateboarding's biggest legends. Such dedication comes with a demanding schedule – all three do school online about four hours a day, which frees up their time to skate five to eight hours every afternoon. Together they have a collective 81,000 followers on Facebook and 235,000 on Instagram, all before any of them have begun their freshman year of high school. (UN-OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO):Created By/IKeepItRealer22Visit our website for FREE HD Live Concerts & Hip-Hop Doc'sBitchute. He voices his own cartoon character on "Wild Grinders" on Nicktoons and recently was a guest on MTV's "Ridiculousness" and "Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory." All shows are the work of Rob Dyrdek, who is a skate legend and Jagger's mentor. ![]() Jagger has made the most TV appearances of them all. Trey and Jagger were stunt doubles in a Hyundai commercial that aired during the Super Bowl in 2013, though Trey stumbles on the brand when he talks about it – he can't drive, so why would he be able to pronounce Hyundai? "There's been people that have literally come up to me and been like 'why are you here?' I just wait and drop in and let them see why I'm here," she said in the commercial. Alana has been featured in Teen Vogue and recently starred in a Clean and Clear commercial where she talked about being a female skater in a man's world. ![]()
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