I'm a die hard Lions fan..... a lot of times I get questions like did you live in Detroit and how could a disaster like that ever happen? Well the answer is I used to play runningback and I tried to pattern my game after Barry Sanders who on my terms retired far too soon but who could blame him right?
Did you know that Music was my first love? In 4th grade I used to play the violin and then I had to move away from Peoria so I started to take up the Tuba in which I played from 6th grade until my senior year in highschool. I'm deeply rooted within the Hip Hop community and I'm a huge promoter of the art but I am no rap artist myself..... just an aspiring model :)
I don't eat pork....... Sorry I know a lot of people love it but I can't eat it since I practice Muslim beliefs. My biggest influences that lead me from one move to another is the Nation Of Islam I practice 5 percenter beliefs.... If you dont know what that is you should probably go on Wikipedia.org.... See look I'm already advertising on my blog!
How did you go from football to modeling and even more crazy how did you get into Fashion Marketing!? Well I didn't leave football by choice.... It kind of had to leave me it seems that my body wouldnt allow me to play anymore after severely breaking my left leg and having two surgeries... and to even prove to people and to myself how much I loved the game I came back and played for my hometown college University-Wisconsin Oshkosh and then yep... I broke my right leg. So I said its game over for me I got move on. As far as the modeling goes I kind of knew that it was something I could do after I got my senior pictures back I received quite a bit of compliments so thats the direction I moved towards plus I had worked on my body so hard for football that I figured I would be in shape for a while.
So....How'd you get to Madison..... You look like a football player... but you arent one right? No. However I did have aspirations to play the school before I got hurt the first time in highschool but after that I figured that opportunity was thrown out the window and I was right. My boy DC who some of you know as Darrin Charles went to the same highschool as me. We werent always close though even though we knew of each other but it wasnt until my sophomore year in highschool and his senior year in highschool that we kind of became real cool with each other. We had some amazing achievements that year as far as winning the state title and we also exceeded expectations in track when we were on the same 4x1 relay team we were able to finish 3rd in the state. He gave me an opportunity to move here and I ran with it basically I worked tons of odd jobs to get by I figured I'd be able to get into school right away but that wasnt the case at all. So I had to go the long route of bouncing at various bars like Wando's, Paul's Club, Madison's and even had a short stint at the Orpheum. I ran into fashion marketing while taking a year off of school by learning I had a talent for it during the time I worked at Banana Republic and the rest really became history.
What's next for me? That is in the man above's hand but I will continue to work hard everyday and share more and more of my story with the world through my blog. Let's enjoy the ride that has become my life.... then again I suppose it always has been a ride.
-Ian Jordan Mayes
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