The NFL Star that Can Actually Skate

right what's up welcome back to another video skaters today we're going to be looking at John Kelly an NLF NLF an NFL running back for the LA Rams who actually enjoys a little bit of the wooden plank on his spare time so what we're going to do is we're going to jump straight into this video from the barracks the NFL running back who skateboards now this is pretty popular video so we're going to full screen this and we're going to review some skateboarding so all that being said ah yes my pre-cap board warm up I'm a professional football player now you know what I mean that can get stressful imagine you see skaters doing warm-ups like this like you're just at the skate park and you got a bunch of cones you're holding your skateboard in your hand you're like duding around and ducking and weaving hugging the skateboard like it's your little baby like you're going to score with it and when I'm able to get on my board you know that's always a great stress believer for me because that's what I'm going to do until I can't do anything else like I'm G play football until I can do that or whatever but skating is something I'm never going to give up that see that's a great thing to hear right there he just said skateboard something he's never going to leave football he'll do until he can't do it anymore but skateboarding is something that's always going to stick with him and I think that's a common sentiment shared by so many skateboarders around the world like no matter what else you do in your life if you love skateboarding that's the one thing that remains consistent and will always be there for you regardless of any love loss breakups whatever it may be you'll always have that to bring you back to reality uh my name is John Kelly and I'm going turn this one up a little bit back for the Los Angeles Rams okay now in England we don't know much about these NFL Stars obviously I know about the hyp behind them but not so much what actually happens in these games so forgive me if I get a few things wrong here I'm just here to look at the skateboard and so and it looks like this guy's got some mad stuff so you're skating regular I've been skating probably 15 years I would say I somewhere D skating for 15 years man that's a long time I don't even know how old this guy is he's probably what like maybe 30 at the most in area but I mean you got to think about it's been like on and off cuz I mean I'm a football player now you know what I mean so I definitely been skating for as long as I can remember I almost didn't play football cuz I was going to skate yeah I don't know I think there's definitely more money in the football though like to be honest if you could if you got the choice between the two do the football do the skateboard in your spare time and then just get into skateboarding after you've made your bag but to be honest with you doing skateboard alongside something like this that's probably making him a lot a lot of money is quite risky so that speaks volumes on how much he must love it because think about it right if he's skating then he breaks a leg skateboard and he's then missed out on a huge bag with the NFL so big respect to John Kelly for that it was like that I was born in jolia Illinois and then moved to Detroit when I was around 12 born in jol at Illinois and then moved to Detroit when I was around 12 so I kind of like went through a lot of my adolesence in Detroit when I first started skating like so you grew up in Detroit a pretty rough area forgive me if I'm wrong by the way obviously there's some nice part and bad parts of everywhere but from what we hear over here Detroit is one of the rougher ones I was a loner growing up in the inner city it wasn't too many people skateboarding obviously I was always like the outcast when I was doing so I never got into it just like to do the best tricks or do anything like that I got into it more for like the creativity aspect of it yeah man that's what I love about skateboarding the creativity outweighs everything else obviously the fact that it's a physical activity and you're getting yourself fitter and healthier by doing it is a massive plus to me the the two main things though are the creativity and the mental health benefits of skateboarding like the amount of things you can learn just from being able to pick yourself up off the floor after failing a trick a thousand times will teach you so much in your real life about having to go through failures to reach success that that and the creativity side of being able to just throw the board in any way you want as long as you land back on it even sometimes if you don't you still get a great trick out of it so creativity and that is the biggest things for me you know I mean like I was also playing football and everything too but skating was like a piece of mind for me and it taught me a lot of lessons like experiencing things at a young age that I probably wasn't gonna be exposed to until I was older true and then me getting older and playing football and pretty much handling both of those it's kind of taught me to like keep a peace with myself you know because football was like natural I think the biggest thing skate woing teaches you is how to progress through something that's difficult cuz the reward is at the end like if you find something that you like and you find it really really easy the SA faction is going to diminish fairly quickly whereas with skateboarding 99.99% of people are going to find it extremely difficult and having to battle through that difficult part to reach the green zone the grass on the other side that is what makes skateboarding literally the best sport in the world in my opinion and John Kelly is doing a great job of speaking on that yeah I mean skating was more like it was skilled I had to learn that it was a lot of time and dedication that's what people don't realize there would be a lot of time on this board check this [ __ ] out right so my first board was a foundation board right right green Foundation Bo with a little F I had no I know Foundation boards were that old if he's been skiting for 15 years that must have been a while back I picked up my first Foundation board literally I never saw any in the UK till about 3 years ago they spawned in for a bit bought a couple tried them thought they were okay they're kind of like heart Supply quality like the mid tier brand quality in my opinion at least the one that I had was but yeah I didn't know they were about that long no grip tick but I had that skateboard with no grip tape for like a year I'll like stair at the my man just said he had skateboards with no grip tape for a year sorry I keep pausing it so much by the way crazy with no grip tape I swear to God and people used to always be like oh you're going to be so good when you grow up cuz you like practicing with no grip tape you skate with no grip tape I'm like that's funny that's a funny story to think about like nobody I haven't talked about that [ __ ] in so long that is hilarious you know skate means a lot to me it's it's taught me more see this kind of stuff here just doing random stuff like this if you ride up to the rail jump off the board and start walking on the rail with the board like he's doing now the creativity side of that shows like most people be like a that's weird that's dumb that's circus tricks right they get called a lot but if you're having fun if you can jump onto the rail jump back onto the board that's a trick in itself you see Andy Anderson do stuff like this all the time another one of the reasons he's one of my favorite skateboarders if not the favorite of this generation then I can imagine one thing IID say skateboarding definitely taught me to do was to just like keep pushing and it's funny cuz I just got that tattooed on my arm you know what I mean so like yeah and it's like a little skateboard or whatever like I said the lessons that it's been able to teach me I don't think I would have been able to learn it any other way like it was able to make me very like diverse because when you skate my man's mad athletic too look at these gymnastics like you skate with people from all over different backgrounds different upcomings you know what I mean it's a lot of different people that skate that's why it's always label Misfit so some yeah that is another another great thing about it is like at the skate park you could literally find people from all walks of life it's one of the only places you could find like maybe a goth a librarian an ex-convict and a group of young kids all skating together in harmony my favorite skaters would be like Stevie Williams Chris hlam and Dewan song p and uh Chris Cole probably I definitely give skateboarding all the credit for my music of taste you know what I mean like I've seen so many different skate parks that had like cool music in it the one that I just recently seen that was like H that's kind of cool is that uh Richie Rich Jackson Man Richie Jackson We Love Richie Jackson over here like this guy's skill level is very similar to Andy Anderson but a bit more on the Kookie side I'd say Andy's like kind of a fusion between like a ball a street freestyle skateboarder whereas Richie Jackson's more of like an outwardly spoken outgoing very eccentrically dressed skateboarder who Jo likes to use a bunch of obstacles you would never normally see like remote control Dolly things he likes to use ballards traffic cones all kinds of stuff that you could slide on that you would never normally think skateable is Richie Jackson's whole bag so if you've not seen his part I might do another review on that soon that [ __ ] is kind of sweet right I was SE that one that was pretty tight but um yeah I definitely want to be able to bring more resources to the city of Detroit in regards to skating because skating has been able to do so much for me I think Detroit's going to be a hot skate scene you're going to see a spike in uh skaters coming out of Detroit sooner than later it's going to be tight to be honest that's what we need man we need more people like this who can actually do something well with their life earn a bit of money and help put skateboarding back up there because there are so many great things that teaches you like I said earlier in the video that if you could just give that to some kids everybody that skates that gets these lessons like me like John Kelly whoever it may be all they want to do is spread that lesson to other people because they know how valuable that it is so seeing that he is doing that too makes me very happy I'm probably like the first football player that actually can skate I get to skate pretty much anytime I want usually the coaches you know they crack jokes every now and then like you know make sure you're not on that board or you're not skating or anything like that Coach B was actually about it he you know he was pretty confident in my abilities on my board he don't know about the little scratches I get every now and then when I try to do something but yeah they don't really trip about it too much yeah I can imagine the coaches would be kind of like right this guy's the player we need him in ship shape but I mean if they're cool it that's even better football or skating skating a football player can't get on a skateboard but I'm pretty sure a skateboarder can go and run a route skating is definitely harder yeah I've been keeping up with the barracks for a very long time it's tight that I'm finally here though no this hell yeah man we love to see it this guy sounds like a pro a wholesome dude and he's pretty good too back Bo slide we got the Gap we seen a he flip the front board as well F we saw the 50/50 from one earlier tail side [Music] too God [Music] damn what damn right my friends well that was the John Kelly skateboard review I think he's done super well for himself if you want to see any more videos like this let me know and I'll see you in 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