Waiting for Lightning Page #4

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Come on, we wanna hear you!"

He'd look at the crowd,

and he would just be different

with the crowd because they

were rooting for him,

and all of a sudden he'd start

pulling off some of these tricks.

When I first heard

Danny's name,

I know we were doing

a demo for a shop in Vista,

and the shop was a-buzz

about Danny.

Witt hired a limousine to take

Tony and some other people over,

and then I jumped

in the limo with them,

so that was the first time

I shot photos of Danny.

I think it was

a little intimidating,

because we all came,

like, the hoard of us came

and descended

on the ramp,

but at the same time he really

wanted to show what he had.

I saw Tony look.

He look at me

and he goes...

Let's hear it for Danny!

Whoo! Danny Way!

Two months

before the event,

we got permission to jump

at the Great Wall.

We have a location,

but we still need

money to build

the biggest skateboard ramp

that's ever been built.

DC, who was Danny's

main sponsor,

they were hearing us

going, "This looks real,"

but they weren't responding,

and it was radio silence.

When Danny

had the idea it was amazing,

but he was asking us

to put up a lot of money

to build a ramp that we don't know

what the end result's gonna be.

We had such

a short amount of time.

I knew right then and there

this was gonna be

a very massive project.

It was gonna take the toll

on all of us

in certain ways that we

just could never imagine.

I remember

spending the night

at Damon's and Danny's

all the time

because it was a little

more liberal than my house.

So, I got to just

kind of hang out,

I could just smoke cigarettes,

and skate the miniramp.

As a skateboarder and as a

young kid, it was badass.

I had this group

of friends in Vista,

this really talented group

of skateboarders,

and Danny really wanted

to be part of that group.

That was my crew.

It was my people.

We'd go see movies,

try to scam on chicks,

and skate all

the areas all around.

Hi, what's

your name?

- Courtney.

- Amy.

- Come over here.

- See if you can get a date and I'll film it.

Those were my friends

I skated with every day,

and Danny would tag along

and skate with us.

My brother always said

they were his friends.

They always defined me

as the young guy

who was too young

to be a part of their crew.

I was like, "We all skate.

What do you mean?"

I just remember

just boards flying,

you know, and elbows,

slight little punches

and jabs in the stomach

and boards in the shin.

Danny skated harder

than anybody else,

so he wasn't going anywhere, and

that caused friction, you know?

Damon really was

a big influence on Danny.

He just wanted to emulate

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