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Full name | Jagger Eaton | |||||||||
Born |
Mesa, Arizona, United States |
February 21, 2001 |||||||||
Height | 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) | |||||||||
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Country | United States | |||||||||
Sport | Skateboarding | |||||||||
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Jagger Eaton (born February 21, 2001) is a sponsored amateur skateboarder who, as of September 2013, is a Mega Ramp competitor and the youngest ever X Games competitor.
Eaton and his brother Jett (two years his senior) are the sons of Geoff Eaton, owner of the Kids That Rip (KTR) Skateboard School, a school that trains a number of junior X Games competitors. Both brothers started skateboarding under their father's tutelage at a young age, with Jagger commencing at four years of age.
Along with his brother and fellow junior skater Tom Schaar, Eaton is sponsored by DC Shoes as part of their 2012 initiative, the "DC Youth Division".Transworld Skateboarding magazine's Blair Alley called the brothers "the future of vert skating".
Eaton was featured in the Esquire Magazine: Life of Man 80th Anniversary edition that was published in October 2013.
A number of regular skateboarding commentators have been critical of Eaton's participation at professional-level skateboarding events, including Burnquist who believes that separate junior divisions should be established for competitions.David Daniels of Bleacher Report suggested that Eaton's entry (and that of others his age) in professional competitions harms the credibility of skateboarding in the sporting context.
Jagger appeared on episodes of Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory and Ridiculousness (TV series) that aired in January 2015. A reality TV series named Jagger Eaton's Mega Life aired in September 2016 on Nickelodeon. and he also appeared on the September 13th Episode of WWE Smackdown in a backstage segment with The Miz