MARIAH DURAN: Everything I Did Was For Skateboarding | X GAMES PODCAST

Duration: 51:12 Views: 8.9K Submitted: 4 years ago
Description: In the first few years of X Games competitions, Mariah Duran was still slinging pizzas and doing fundraising to earn the necessary money to travel to competitions. Then, in 2016, Duran earned her first silver medal, and everything changed. She took her earnings, bought a car and went into heavy production mode, which earned her more prestigious placings at comps and the the opportunity for her to skate full-time. Nowadays, the Women's Skateboard Street podium has become a familiar place for Duran to land at X Games. But with competitions taking a back seat this year, Duran isn't slowing down at all. Here, Brando's World of X catches up at home with the Albuquerque native.


0:50 Quarantine Life
3:00 Backyard sessions with Mom and Dad
3:45 Hot Box
7:20 Skateboarding with or without fans
9:40 Growing up
11:30 What got Mariah into skating
13:15 Being the only girl at the skate park
16:00 Skating in professional contests while in high school
17:23 Fundraising for the X Games
19:04 X Games Invitation
24:10 X Games Silver medal in 2016
26:43 Wild weather in Austin
27:45 Gold medal in Minneapolis
30:40 Favorite trick at X Games
33:05 X Games Sydney Gold medal
36:45 Adidas sponsorship
41:15 Part time jobs to full time professional skater
43:30 Skateboarding debut in the Olympics
48:35 Trophy room
49:30 Mariah Duran's shoes

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