In today's episode of Awesome Humans, we are joined by the business owner, event organizer, coach and Awesome Human Donny Fraser. Donny is the managing director of the Australian Skateboarding community. Aside from that, Donny, is a coach at Slowcoach and the occasional stunt man.
As a young budding entrepreneur trying to secure sponsorships, Donny learned the hard way that to secure belief in your own personal brand and to secure any kind of funding/sponsorship or support, there must be a solid backing. For Donny this was created through hard work and perseverance, and networking.
Donny found success through listening and observing those around him in the skating community rather than assuming his own ideas were the winner and now Donny is in his third year of running the international competition "Rumble on the Reef' in Mackay on a 2.5 Million Dollar Skatepark.
When Donny was a young skater there were two groups in Queensland focused on youth development of Skateboarding which consisted of a few people going to the skate park with a megaphone and a bag of tee shirts. Donny wanted to change this and sort out to create a real support network for youth in skating. It is people like Donny and his dedication to the craft that has seen waxing the curbs with a skateboard lead to international and Olympic sport recognition.
During Covid, Donny has been running online competitions to keep judges and pro skaters in work and to keep the youth engaged and even give them the chance to win some prizes. To see what Donny has going on at the moment, check out https://www.skateboarder.com.au/pro/asci/ and follow Donny on Instagram @Donnyfraser.
