Chad Kerley on Being a BMX Pro for 10+ Years, Finding Out He's Adopted, Becoming a Dad & More

Chad Kerley shares about his story as a BMX pro, family, fatherhood, BMX insocial media, branding and more! --- 00:00 Intro 0:00 - Adam remembers meeting Chad after he did a crazy trick at 15 years old 1:11 - Growing up as a bike racing prodigy  4:18 - Building a name in the race community helped when he started doing tricks 5:48 - How skills from racing translated into BMX and freestyle tricks 10:45 - How being short helps in BMX 12:22 - Transitioning from racing to freestyle and street. Being introduced to the laidback lifestyle of street BMX 14:40 - Being inspired by seeing black BMX riders like Edwin De La Rosa 18:09 - Early days of meeting people in the San Diego scene. Meeting Dennis Enarson 24:12 - Learning to treat BMX more like a career than a hobby 28:30 - Getting frustrated by all the unseen work that goes into creating clips  42:22 - Comparing Garrett’s BMX career to Drake’s music career 46:00 - Getting the chance to ride with his BMX heroes 48:05 - Chad explains why he turned up at his last contest after landing a nose manual on a rail 50:13 - Why BMX riders are always supportive even when competing 52:20 - Importance of having major events and competitions. X Games being the only major BMX competition 53:40 - Lack of popular BMX brands as opposed to skating 1:01:15 - Chad on starting his own Youtube channel to show his perspective on BMX 1:02:50 - How individual content creators can have the same impact as media companies 1:05:05 - Thrasher is one of the only big media companies with a cool brand 1:11:45 - No plans to try to get his son into BMX 1:13:10 - New products coming soon: “Henny Monster” frame and Kool Kiy shoe collab coming soon 1:16:30 - Training to stay in shape for BMX 1:17:10 - Chad explains what went wrong when he almost broke his ankle jumping over Hollywood High 1:20:05 - Not wanting to move out of San Diego anytime soon 1:20:35 - Chad reveals that his dad told him he was adopted last year  1:24:56 - Being happy to have control of his own story now that he knows he’s adopted 1:26:0