Do you have to start surfing really young to be a pro surfer?

i know the odds of being a pro is very small but I love surfing and it's my passion i'm fourteen and live about 2 hours from the ocean. I go out there about every two months to surf. Also, my dad lives in San Fran so I surf when I'm there. I'll go to college by the ocean and surf everyday. Do you think being a pro is possible? Also, in the summer I surf a lot more, same with holidays.|||No you don't have to start really young to be pro, it is just harder. I started surfing when I was about 8 years old, and at the age of 9 I started to enter comps so I could get spotted by sponsors, now I'm 14 and have got 7 sponsors and enter comps around the world, to tell you the truth no one ever really expected me to become good, but I practiced every hour of every day. Also you could become pro just surf every day you can, and when you cant surf go for a skate instead it really helps. Also my cousins the same as you he lives about 2 hours away from the beach, but he tries to practice as much as he can, and go surfing every day he could, also he started surfing at 15 years old and now he is 19 and has many sponsors and also enters many comps around the world. So yes you can become pro, you just need to PRACTICE and enter as Many comps as possible so you can get spotted by sponsors|||start competing. if your that good sponsors will wanna pick u up. you also don't have to compete to be a pro, but you will need balls of adamantium and surf the bigger waves that most people don't want to. my friends dad made my friend go out when it was 12-15ft hawaiian scale at Haleiwa with no one else out when he was15 to prove to other competitors and to his sponsors that he had what it took to be pro and he did, but because of surfing politics and corporate marketing he ended up pursuing other things in life.





so you never know.|||Surfers grows up in the ocean that is, they know the waves like the back of their hand. But its believed it takes 10,000 hrs of training to become a pro. Nothing takes the place of hard work and if the dream and passion is there mate, you will achieve it. Good luck.|||Anything is possible, no1 thought Kelly Slater would be going for #11 at 39 going on 40. A majority of all sponsored por surfers started at a very early age, were already known going into their teenage years and already surfed in competitions which got them sponsored at a very early age. If you are one the best surfers of your time you stand a good chance but the odds are stacked up against you. If by chance you do make it, remember the little people. You need to surf spots where there are photographers taking photos of other pro surfers in the water when you are surfing and make them notice you. Places like PIpeline, Trestles, Blacks, Santa Cruz, Steamer Lane in the winter when the waves are double overhead.