"The film classes taught me nothing, and I spent most of my time riding my skateboard," summarizes Kyro. In 2001, AK moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and took some General Education and film classes - the original plan was to major in film making. "I chose the school that had a good film program and an area with a good skate scene," recalls Kyro.
Should he go to University like everyone else or venture off in pursuit of his childhood passion of becoming a professional skateboarder?ĪK admits he was scared and not sure that he could make it as a pro skater, so he took the easier and simpler route of going to University. So, by the time Aaron Kyro was 18 years old, he was - like many kids straight out of high school - tasked with a life-changing decision. Skateboarding, University, or Something In-Between? "I was 100 percent self-taught before the days of video tutorials, and I blindly felt my way through the process." "Skateboarding videos got me interested in making my own videos and got me started on the path of eventually learning how to film and edit," the entrepreneur wrote. The skatepark stood the test of time, and later Kyro raised $200,000 to revamp, rebuild and improve Red Lodge Montana Skatepark.īut the young skater had another passion. We put a slab there and built a skatepark." "Amazingly enough, the city ended up giving both the land and $25,000. "When I was 18 years old, I found out a specific piece of land owned by the city and asked if there was any way we could get the money," Kyro once explained. Kyro grew up in Red Lodge, a small town in Montana, where he raised funds for the construction of a local skatepark in 2002. "I spent countless hours teaching myself to ride in any empty parking lots I could find in the harsh Montana weather."
The second I got my first skateboard, I was hooked." "I begged my parents for a board and did extra chores to help pay for it. "I am not sure what it was about those kids - maybe the friendship, joy, and freedom they seemed to be experiencing - but I wanted to be just like them," Kyro wrote in his book "How to Get a Billion Views on YouTube." It all started on December 8, 2005, when he uploaded his first video on YouTube, an online video-sharing platform that had made his debut ten months earlier.Īaron Kyro was born on September 10, 1983, in Denver, Colorado.Īt the age of six, he peered out of the car window as his family was driving through town and saw three kids riding skateboards.Īaron knew at that exact moment that he wanted to be a skateboarder.
This is the line that AK uses to start countless videos.īraille Skateboarding is an action sports media company founded by Aaron Kyro. "My name is Aaron Kyro, and I am a sponsored skateboarder from the San Francisco Bay Area." If you're a skateboarder, you might have already seen a video or heard about Braille Skateboard, the YouTube channel created by Aaron Kyro.
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