Jagger Eaton is an upcoming skateboarder and the youngest ever X Games competitor
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Jagger Eaton is an upcoming skateboarder and the youngest ever X Games competitor
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Jagger Eaton was born on February 21, 2001 in Mesa, Arizona USA to Geoff Eaton. He has an elder brother, Jett Eaton who is two years his senior. Jagger’s father is the owner of the Kids That Rip (KTR) Skateboard School, where both Jagger and Jett were enrolled. Under his father’s tutelage, Jagger started skateboarding at a young age. He was only four years of age when Eaton started skateboarding in his father’s school that trains children for Junior X Games competitors.
Jagger Eaton is already a star in the making. He is the youngest ever X Games competitor and a Mega Ramp competitor. Sponsored by DC Shoes, Jagger’s career in skateboarding started when he was merely four years old. He started playing the sport as an amateur in 2011, competing at the Bob Burnquist’s Dreamland MegaRamp Invitational where he finished at the 3rd place. By 2012, he was sponsored by DC Shoes as a part of their 2012 ‘DC Youth Division’ initiative. In the 2012 X Games held in Los Angeles, Jagger Eaton became the youngest ever X Games competitor after Nyjah Huston. He was merely eleven years of age.
In 2013, he finished fourth in the Big Air twice. In December 2014, he won Tampa Am in Tampa, Florida and became one of the youngest skateboarder to win the competition.
By 2015, Jagger Eaton was sponsored by DC Shoes, Plan B Skateboards, Red Bull, Bones Wheels, Independent Truck Company, and KTR Skateboard School. Same year, he won the BoardrAm competition in Houston, Texas, a win that earned him an invite at the BoardrAm finals in the X Games 2015 in Austin, Texas. Apart from sports, Eaton has also gained popularity as a television personality. He appeared on episodes of Rob Dyrdek's ‘Fantasy Factory’ and ‘Ridiculousness’ (TV series).
In 2016, Nickelodeon started a reality TV series based on his life, ‘Jagger Eaton's Mega Life’. He also appeared on the September 13th Episode of WWE Smackdown in a backstage segment with The Miz.