[darkpuppet]

Just do it.

The thing is that the people who are successful doing the things they love doing are the ones that are able to commercialize it the best.

'selling out' is just a term the jealous use to try to mitigate their own failures.

ok, maybe not THAT severe... but to a degree, you get my point. You either move forward or someone else will..

Unless your sport has some sort of altruistic greater good we're not aware of, I honestly don't see how you would have a moral objection against doing this. You get out, you start making a name for yourself, you build a resume that you leverage towards your own goals... and you make some good money.

win-win.

hell, I'll jump off a building for $10,000... we have health care!