mate I wasnt arguing with you, I agree people do live skateboarding, I know plenty of people over here that do as well. What I meant more was the people at the top of their game arent just living skateboarding anymore, they are living as professional athetes.
Putting in mad work in gyms, probably gymnastic type shit to get them flexible, just rather than skating none stop all day they now train around their skating as well. They have training regimes etc.
I mean pro skaters now arent like how it was in the 80s/90s it is more professional now, I'm not saying peoples passion towards it is any different, just the way they approach it and the money involved means it is takenmore professionally and serious.
Also a lot of the younger pros have literally had a deck at their feet since they could walk, I remember this little kid about 4 back in Bristol I would see skating, saw him not long ago he is now 18 and still skating and was doing more than I would imagine most of us on here could do.
I wouldnt be surprised if someone has taken drugs to help boost recovery from injury, I dunno quite what other performance enhancers there are that could help a skateboarder apart from injury recovery. Im not denying it could happen, and I wouldnt be surprised if it did at some point, but at the moment I dunno what benefit there is.