Skatepreneur | The George Wang Story

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George Wang Jr. is a stand-up comedian and viral skateboarding coach who's career blew up on TikTok during the pandemic and has been featured on Business Insider.

We became close friends creating content for an electric skateboard company together. Even though our contract with the company ended, we still continued to hang out and create our own projects together.

I thought it would be cool to shoot a short documentary of him talking about his career being a comedian and a skate coach. At the time, he was teaching at an after school program.

We didn't really have a goal with the documentary, so we would just go out and film footage.

I thought that this documentary wouldn't even get finished due to the pandemic, so I had put it on the back burner for a long time.

But as everything started to get back to normal, George's coaching career blew up after his lessons went viral on TikTok.

His clientele began to grow and grow. It got to the point where he had a waitlist of kids who wanted to have lessons.

George now has a full-time career teaching skateboarding to the next generation of kids.

Directed by Scott Takai
Original Score by Flora Cheng
"Fun Times" & "I Love Skateboarding" by The Hyphenate and Judo Keys
"Rollercoastin'" by Gianni Taylor
Sound Mixing: Mike Knowlan
Drone Footage: Fidel Melara
BTS Footage: Josh Quintero

SPECIAL THANKS:
Pacifico Cantina
Garden Grove Alano Club
Nova Brewing Company
Ice House
Covina Center for the Performing Arts
Business Insider
Casey Reynolds
Technique