How do you accomplish the seemingly impossible ?

Nov 2020

According to a skateboarding legend: “You take every run”.

It’s impossible not to mention the name “Danny Way” when the history and the records of skateboarding are being talked about. Famous American skater holds number of records in professional skateboarding. He invented some miraculous tricks and attempted them countless times.

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Danny dropped to a super ramp from a helicopter in 1997, he also held the record for highest bomb drop which is basically free falling to a ramp with a skateboard from 8.5 meters. To visualize; that is about 5 times of an average human height, demonstrated with a tree.

Seeing the limit only with his definition, Danny jumped over The Great Wall of China on his skateboard in January 9, 2005. He didn’t make it in his first try as he fell down to the landing ramp. On another attempt in the next day, he succeeded with a fractured ankle.

The one that he did make it, is in the tweet down below.

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He is even a playable character in the EA video games: Skate, Skate 2 and Skate 3. That alone is enough to represent the impact he has on the sport.

In January 2015, Danny and his team began their next journey toward the next high air record. He was also the previous world record holder for high air at 7.1 meters.

“At some point, you know, maybe I will hit a wall with this or max out on my potential with how big I can go on a ramp. I don’t know yet. But, that’s what i want to know. I want to know before it’s too late.”

On the day, his first 8 attempts were failures. As he fell down again and again, people around him got worried about his physical condition and wondered if it was worth it.

He just kept trying.

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At his 9th attempt he got an official World Record of 7.6 meters high air.

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As you may guess, he wasn’t satisfied with his performance and decided to have another go. His 24th attempt got him a World Record of 7.772 meters high air.

He did not stop there, he wanted just a tiny little bit more. However after his 26th attempt; he was sidelined with cramping seizures. If you want to learn more about the story, you can watch the documentary “Beyond Measure” about this record on YouTube.

Being resilient and persevering; no matter what happens, seems to be the way to achieve the so called “impossible”. When he talked about building super ramps and dropping from an on air helicopter, people looked at Danny like he was out of his mind.

Which sounds like the start of every single dream that is reached.

Conquer your impossible.