Waiting for Lightning Page #9

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No, I'm cool with it.

I'm cool.

- All right, Danny.

- All right, man.

Take care. Talk to you

in a couple of hours.

- Sounds good, JT.

- Okay, bye.

That same thing

that makes Danny tick

is what makes me tick.

I was just like,

"Yeah, but I've never

done this before".

We all set goals.

It's what makes

you go forward.

Goals can be dangerous.

I'd be coming home

from work

and he had

the little ninja motorcycles,

and I'd see "whooomp!"

right past me, and I'd go,

"God darn it,

there goes Danny!"

And I turn my car around,

try and chase him down

because he'd

already had it out

with the police

in Fallbrook several times.

One of my prominent memories

of Danny's early success

was when he started getting

a little bit of money.

He could start affording

his fantasies and things.

Quality American machine.

All of a sudden he started

buying all this stuff,

and he had, like,

motorcycles.

He'd ride them all over town,

no license, nothing.

It was just, like,

wild child.

- Going M.T?

- Yeah.

I'm gonna seriously pack

off the side, watch.

No, just go

straight up and down.

Oh, sh*t!

The house out in rainbow

that they lived in,

this was out in the middle

of nowhere up on a hill.

Most of the time we had

the house to ourselves.

Thought you were gonna

land on your back.

I remember pulling up

and bullet holes in the cars

and had the ramp there

and everything

and just skate house.

It was lawless.

Absolute lawlessness.

Danny didn't grow up the same

way a lot of other people did.

He dropped out of school

in ninth grade

and then he went into

this skateboard touring mode.

There he is!

And he started hanging out

with older kids right away,

so he really jumped

that period that's formative

in all of our lives

of going through high school

and finding out who we are

and developing ourselves.

He was just chasing

his passion at that point,

which anybody else

would do.

In the mid-'80s, there,

a lot of parks were going out.

I just remember seeing

Del Mar in chunks.

It was pretty devastating

on a lot of people.

People were

taking to the streets

because they had nowhere else to

go, and if you wanted to skate,

you just figured out how to use

the urban landscape,

learn how to use rails and

ledges and benches and stairs.

The city was

the skate park.

That didn't hurt

that bad.

We were

skating everything.

Calvary chapel was the hub.

Like, everybody went there.

Everybody would

meet there,

and then we'd all go

wherever we would go.

Danny grew up

skating Del Mar,

riding transitions...

Naturally talented

little kid.

Then this whole evolution

of skateboarding

in the late '80s

into '90s of street skating,

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