{"id":9469,"date":"2009-07-27T14:48:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T21:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9469"},"modified":"2009-07-27T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T21:50:09","slug":"bleiler-perkins-help-launch-makeitprocom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9469","title":{"rendered":"Bleiler &#038; Perkins Help Launch Makeitpro.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/makeitpro.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/makeitpro.jpg','popup','width=800,height=452,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/makeitpro-tm.jpg\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Makeitpro\" \/><\/a>Pro snowboarder<strong> Gretchen Bleiler<\/strong> and pro skater <strong>Lauren Perkins<\/strong> are joining pro baller <strong>Steve Nash<\/strong>, pro paintballer <strong>Johnny Perchak<\/strong> (and others) in backing a new website that reportedly will help people learn how to become pro athletes. The site, which launches Wednesday July 29, 2009  is called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.makeitpro.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Makeitpro.com<\/a><\/strong>, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2009\/07\/25\/makeitpro-steve-nash-internet-business-sports-makeitpro.html\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These optimists are launching MakeItPro.com July 29, a site targeted to young athletes, especially those not growing up in sports hotbeds, offering them sport-by-sport advice as well as a social network to help connect with coaches and recruiters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because we all know that by following a few tips from our favorite pros we all be living the good life in no time. God, we just hope Gretchen and Lauren are getting paid upfront. . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2009\/07\/25\/makeitpro-steve-nash-internet-business-sports-makeitpro.html\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler and pro skater Lauren Perkins are joining pro baller Steve Nash, pro paintballer Johnny Perchak (and others) in backing a new website that reportedly will help people learn how to become pro athletes. The site, which launches Wednesday July 29, 2009 is called Makeitpro.com, according to a story on Forbes.com. These [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9469"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9472,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469\/revisions\/9472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}