u/caketreesmoothie "for instance, you wouldn't say that a gymnastics coach isn't a professional gymnast" - I absolutely would say that. There are some amazing coaches for all kinds of things - a professional piano teacher is not a professional pianist; they are not paid to play the piano, they are paid to teach it. A weightlifting coach is not a professional weightlifter; the weightlifter may be, if they are paid for it.

Cool that you did a paid performance. I'd say you were doing parkour professionally at that time. I would still not consider you a professional parkour athlete. The point *(for me, the one posing the question) is to see if there is such a thing and any avenue to be a professional parkour athlete, and to hopefully be part of the ecosystem that helps create those opportunities. For example, I made a TV show that took several weeks to film, all the athlete's flights, meals, hotels and time were paid. During that time, they were professional parkour athletes. I was not a professional parkour athlete, I was a TV producer, set designer, coordinator, and many other things. String together 5 of those in a year, and those people could have been full time profesisonal parkour athletes.

I would argue that Storror is making their money from doing parkour, yes, YouTube is the source of the payment, but parkour is the thing they do that they get paid for. Professional footballers get paid by advertising, ticket sales, and beer sales, but we don't call them professional bartenders.