Waiting for Lightning Page #8

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What do you think

did it for you today?

You had a lot

of competition.

Um...

basically, um...

Uhhhh...

Let's do it again,

take two.

Well, after a hard-fought

contest, this is our winner.

This is Danny Way, the

youngest pro on the tour.

Do you feel like you were hampered

by your injury at all today,

or did you skate

through the pain?

It was kind of hard in

practice, but in contest

I didn't think about

anything but staying on,

you know,

busting out.

Well, that was one heck

of a comeback.

Again, he hit

the floor.

I saw him a little earlier,

and he hit it hard.

He wasn't feeling

too good,

but he came back

and won the contest.

Once again, Danny Way

is our champion,

and that'll do it now

from Lansing, Michigan.

Quiksilver had

bought DC Shoes,

so we go for a meeting

with Bob McKnight,

the chairman

of Quiksilver.

And Bob writes a check

for the money we needed.

That was one

of those moments where

it finally strikes you

and was like, wait a second.

This really is going

to happen now.

This is a team effort,

so we brought

JT and Brian in

because they are

the experts in big structures.

With Danny, you're

dealing with history.

The stuff he does is always

so new and so creative,

like, there is

no norm to go from.

There is no fulcrum point

to start from.

It's like, okay, let's try it

with this and see what happens.

I have a lot to do

with these guys' careers,

making and breaking them.

I want to see Danny succeed,

that's what I'm there for.

I don't want to see

anybody get hurt.

The challenges

of building a structure

that has not

been built before was huge,

never mind

in a different country.

Probably get it

here somewhere.

Twenty-one meters.

Twenty-one meters converts

into 68 feet, 10 inches.

- What is it?

- Sixty-eight feet, 10 inches.

- Hello?

- Danny, JT.

JT,

how you doing, man?

- Good, how you doing?

- Good.

Hey, I got

a quick question for you.

I'm sitting here with Brian,

and the scaffolding's going up.

Everything's going good, but we're

actually pulling measurements

off of, like, distances

and stuff.

It looks like

right now, um,

the distance is

between 65 and 70-foot gap.

Is that

too gnarly or...?

- No.

- Okay.

Nothing's too gnarly.

It's no more

than 70.

Well, 70, that's getting up

there, I mean, yeah.

It changes the game

a little bit, which is good.

- I can do that.

- Okay.

I'm not worried

about it. Um...

Okay, I was worried about,

like we discussed earlier,

there was a good 55-foot gap

now that got changed.

I want you

to come out here

and know what you're

getting yourself into

so you're mentally

prepared for it.

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