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  1. “And you can see my first hit. I do my big trick, and there's this big puff of breath because it's so cold out, you can see my breath. And then the next trick comes, I'm doing my thing, puff of breath, all the way down in that last hit, there's no breath. I was holding my breath trying to make sure I land that trick. It's always that, you know, that flow you get, that kind of like one hit to the next. And I really can't pinpoint one specific moment out. And usually at the top, I'm just kind of like. I don't know. Usually they're, I'd probably just say a little prayer and kind of, I think.”

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  2. “I usually, I'm not really thinking about anything, and that's the beauty of music. They play some music at the top, you start singing along, and then I go down my run, and I'm usually just kind of like humming along to the song. And the goal is to, you're completely focused, and then there's that bit of not caring. And that allows you to then just do the tricks. Like, you've practiced. You know what to do. You're your own worst enemy at that point because if you overthink it, you know, you're going to, you know, like the couple questions go. I was like, where am I going with this? And then I forgot what the question was. Like, you know, you can't let yourself, you know, get in the way of what you're trying to do. And so I always describe it like I'm thinking of, you know, each wall. So I'm doing my flips and thinking about the next trick. So that's a way to kind of like avoid overanalyzing this landing or something like that. The tough part is it's the last hit because there's no more hits after that. So there's a really funny video of me at some competition. It's really cold out.”

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  3. “No, I just kind of like everything was so serious at the time. And I don't know, that was just kind of my way of dealing with it.”

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  4. “You visualize the dream and the goal and then you make it happen. But that's what's fun is it takes a lot of the pressure off of it. Winning the Olympics is a very big goal. It's a very stressful goal to have, you know, so it's nice to have something else to offset. Oh man, like obviously if I won all these cars, that meant I was going to win the Olympics because I was winning all the events. If I get to wear the pants, that means I won the Olympics. It's like it kind of downplays the whole magnitude of it. So that's kind of why I do it.”

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  5. “No, it was just celebratory pants forever. These are all true stories. And then I got on the cover of Rolling Stone wearing those pants.”

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  6. “The Olympics and had this ridiculous nickname that I've been given, a tomato, and all these things. I was like, that's so not cool. Like, I gotta, if I win again, what if they put me on the cover? And what if I'm in American flagpants? Like doing some axle rose type something. And so that was my goal. I had the pants and then tailored up at the Vancouver Games. And I've won so I could wear the pants.”

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  7. “I do. Yeah, they're always random, man. The Vancouver Olympics, I can't believe I'm telling you this. I had, my goals were to, again, when the Olympics, and then the other goal was to wear these pants. And the pants that I had made were these American flagpants. It's just following me. I saw this photo of Axel Rose wearing something similar. They were probably a little more snug and shorter. I was like, I can't pull that, but I can make some pants like that. And yeah, it was just like this stupid goal. Like, man, if I won, like, maybe, I don't know, like, I could get on the cover rolling stone or something like that. I had been on the cover when I first won.”

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  8. “It's ridiculous. One of them was to, when the Olympics, and then one of them was to see how many cars I could win. How many cars? Because at the time, the automotive industry were just like handing out cars. So I was like, okay, I got my car in Japan. That's great. And so I was on a roll. And I think by the end of the run, I had like nine cars. And they weren't. There was like a Suzuki sidekick. And like this Volvo and a Jeep and these random cars. But that was like one of my goals. Like, how many cars can I win? I ended up like donating them at the end because I had to pay taxes on them and all these things. I was just like, all right, somebody could just have this as an ego. Here's the Suzuki. Sorry, the”

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  9. “I think it was both, you know, I'd put in the work. I'd put in the time. I felt like I was the best rider. And these guys had their travel paid to get there. They were all doing, you know what I mean? I just felt like, you know what? This is my day and I'm not going to let them ruin. And I usually set goals every single season. I set a goal. It's either like something very serious and it's usually two goals. It's something very serious and something funny. Something stupid. Like what?”

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  10. “There's a photo, the best photo in the world because I have it all laid out on the bed because I thought it was so cool. I was like, I mean, look at all this. And the best photo ever because I have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I was like, I did a good job. And I eat my sandwich. But that's, you know, one of those things where... I don't know. That was just one demonstration of me being confident in my writing, knowing what I was there for. And I wanted to win. I mean, people wanted to know, like, why didn't you get pulled into drinking and drugs and these things? And I just didn't have time for it, man. I wanted to win. I wanted to be the best. And nothing could really get in my way”

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  11. “And I was a kid, so I was at home at the hotel with my mom. They show up, hung over to the event, and they're like, you know, the jumps just lame. It's not just nobody. So it was lame. It's not cool. And, you know, we don't want to compete today. We're just going to do a demo. We're all going to split the money. And like, I'm doing the quick math. I'm like, man, this doesn't even cover our flights out. And so I was like, I don't want to do it. I don't want to split the money. And they like hazed me and they're like, oh, you're all about the money and blah, blah, blah. And I just sat there like I'm riding really well today. I'm not doing it. And you know, they had like a big picture of all the riders' faces and they're drawing dollar signs in my eyes. I was 15, man. Like, that was intimidating. It was like my heroes making jabs at me.”

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  12. “Go get better and do all those things. So that's what kind of got me through it, I guess. But I just had this will to always, you know, win to be the best. I mean, and a lot of it stemmed from the fact that I was told even the heart condition and all these things that I wasn't really going to amount to much. So it was like it wasn't so much of a, I want to do this. It's like I have to do this. There was an amazing situation where I was in Japan at this competition called the Toyota Big Air. And I was like a wild card entry. So I was paying my travel to get there with my mom flew out with me. And, you know, we're paying for the hotel. We're paying for the food, all these things. All the other riders were invited. So when they got there, they got paid some, you know, per diem money to show up. And then there's a big prize purse of $50,000. Everyone went out that night and partied like crazy.”

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  13. “That one was for you, Andre. The pressure was on. No, but it's very true. It's very true. Like you can win something and be like, that was great. What next? But like when you lose something, it's just like it just weighs on you and everything isn't as shiny and bright. Everything is just kind of weighed down by this and you won't let it go, you know. And it's amazing. And so in my mind, I always kind of twisted things in my favor. I always kind of like made it to be what I wanted it to be. So if I would show up at a competition and win, I go, okay, great. I'm exactly where I need to be. This is what I'm doing. And if I didn't win, I would just turn it in my favor. Like, well, now you know exactly where you need to be. You've seen what the best are doing and you need to now one up that. And, you know, if you look at something and kind of try to see that other side of it, you know, I would get motivated from that. You know, I would use it in my favor to go compete.”

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  14. “Referencing the book, he had an amazing quote, which I'm going to probably butcher right now, but he said, the feeling of winning doesn't feel as strong or last as long as the feeling of losing. And I nailed it.”

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  15. “That's not my life. I mean, my life is many things. It's one great, amazing facet of my life, but that was something that I was like, wow, I really relate to that because when I come home, I have a whole different world of friends and things that I'm interested in and music and art and all these things. And so I really enjoyed that part of it and how open and honest he was obviously the book open, how honest he was about everything and the ups and downs. Yeah, it was really cool.”

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  16. “Have a hangout during his birthday and go snowboarding. And so we became friends after that. It was really great. And so he sent me the book when it came out. And I was like, oh, this is great. I read the book. And man, I really enjoyed the book. It was so amazing to hear his story and his kind of like struggle of not enjoying the sport and then finally finding his love for it. And I don't know, it was just an interesting way he told the story and I compared so many things of that to my life. And I think the part that I enjoy the most is that once he realized that his life wasn't tennis and that it was his family and it was his foundation, he actually played better. He stopped. He got that little bit of like, I don't care. I'm going to play my heart out. I'm going to go home to people that love me and people that, you know, care about me. And that was something that I've always felt my whole life is that I snowboard for sure. I love it. I do it.”

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  17. “It was just awesome, yeah. And I just remember seeing that as a kid and going, This guy's got something right here. He's doing it right. You know, and I just thought he was so great. And I remember after the Olympics, we got a phone call from Steffi Graf. And my team manager for the company was like, gee, I just got off the phone with Steffi Graff. Andre's a huge fan. He wants you to come out and...”

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  18. “It was incredible. I mean, well, I was a fan of Andre Agassi just in anyways. I had read an interview that he didn't stretch before competitions. I never stretched before competitions. Like I just loved, I just thought the guy was so cool. And he had the white Lamborghini with the headband. Just like...”

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  19. “I purchased the house as an investment, you know. And when you're 18, you can't actually even, I'm sorry, before you're 18, you can't actually even own anything. You can't write things off in your taxes. You just get slammed. And so my parents, like, it looked shady in the beginning, but they took the money. They bought the house, and then they put it back into my name under a trust and things. It's complicated. But anyway, so as I got older, I was like, you know what? I love you guys. You did this such a great thing by supporting me my whole life. I just won the Olympics. Like, you just stay in this house and live here. I'm going to go get a new place. And that was a whole new, you know, like just growing up at that time is tough. And then to add all those extra things on top of it was even more overwhelming.”

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  20. “All this year is already not as great as the last one. And, you know, it was really hard on myself. And so that was a time where I would look back and tell myself to just obviously, you know, let things happen and refresh. Now that I'm older and I've competed at the Olympics, I know what that come down feels like. I'm prepared. Like this last Olympics, I was like, win or lose, I'm going to go play some music with my friends. Like that's what I really want to do. But at that time, it was really tough. And I was dealing with the new success and fame from the Olympics and endorsements and money and what to do. And I was 19. I mean, like normally you move out of home. When you're 18, you go to college, you go to, I was still at home with my mom, like, okay, cool. Like, now what? I was like, I guess I could buy a house. That'd be cool. Let's move out. Well, the plot thickens because the house we were in, I actually owned.”

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  21. “Smoked some weed, right? And like people in the community just didn't really understand, and so there's a big difference between holding up a X-Games medal and a gold medal from the Olympics. I mean, everybody understands that and can recognize that accomplishment. So it not only kind of like took the people that said I was going to be nothing and that I was never going to make it in this board and the teachers that didn't support me and all this, it really meant that we had succeeded. And so I don't know. It's kind of what do you do next? You know, I'm 19. I just like, we did it. And now what? I'm like, I guess we try to do it again, I guess. Like, what, you know, where do you get that same fight? You'd won the fight and it's like, what's next? And so I had a really hard come down from that. I didn't know what to do with myself. I had an undefeated season when I won that year in 2006. And so I was like, I got second place at the event. The following season, I was like,”

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  22. “Where that was going. I still don't know where I was going with that. Okay, I got it. Yeah, we were talking about like the community that I grew up in and they didn't really understand what I did. They're like, okay, he goes, yeah, that's cool. He goes up to the mountains and like, you know, they ask my parents, should you smoke weed? You know, my mom, like, what are you talking about”

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  23. “And I'm like looking around and like, I'm like, why does everybody look so nice? This is crazy. Everybody's dressed up. It was Picture Day. And I was like, okay, I had these huge black eyes from the head trauma and all these things.”

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  24. “Oh man, that's a tough one. I would say it's a tough one because I'm a firm believer in the fact of all those mistakes that I made at that point got me to this place and I wouldn't really have learned my lessons and things, I would have told myself to just kind of like enjoy it more. It was a really, to be honest, it was one of the hardest times in my life. I mean, I just won the Olympics. It was an amazing, like, we did it, you know, in my family. you know, in the community that we lived in, you know, I had a, someone yelled Bob Burnquest earlier over here. Here we go. You know, there's a skateboard of Bob Burnquest and I had crashed into him during a demonstration. I fractured my skull. I broke my hand. I broke my foot. I had to go to school immediately after this crazy accident. And the teacher saw me and like cried at the sight of me.”

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  25. “Yeah, I just was like, I can't picture it on the shelf. I can't picture me standing in front of a crowd like yourself trying to like, oh, look, it's great. I mean, I can, the dog loves it. And the people, like, how am I going to promote this? And it doesn't really, you know, I didn't even use deodorant at the time. Let alone a fragrance, you know? It's like, what's BO? Like, what the... Oh, excuse me. That might have been you. I'm blaming you. But yeah, so it just didn't make sense and I had to really ask myself, is this something I can pull off? Is this something that's going to kill my cred and think about it? I mean, the world of snowboarding was a very core group. And at that time, especially it was like a very touchy scenario to be in, to be doing big endorsements with corporate America.”

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  26. “And then, like, this was our home. We would go up to the mountains. And like, and now I'm just turning down this You know, as many things I said no to, there was a nice list of things that I was currently involved with. And I was like, you know what? For every one of these, there's probably a couple more down the line that are the real deals that you want to wait for. And if it was meant to be, it would have been, you know, it would have made sense. Was there any particular...”

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  27. “I was like 16 and I'm like, we should do the Sean White fragrance I was just like, what? Is it winter fresh? What are we going to like? What is this gonna be? And it just didn't. And I was blown away at the amount of money they were willing to offer me. And I was just like, man, like pad sweat, what are we going to call this? Like, I don't know what to do. And so I remember turning it down, and that was a crazy time because I was like, wow, I don't think I'd ever could have ever my wildest dreams imagined turning down this amount of money, you know. Yeah, I mean, as a kid growing up and like my family and I like to make ends meet, we would camp out in this van at the mountains. My mom and dad bought a van and then they took it down to tijuana to get it re-upholstered because it had like crazy amounts of fleas. It was used as like a lookout car for the police. I can't even make this up. This is real. So they took it down to Tijuana, had it re-upholstered and like flea bombed it.”

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  28. “Oh man, bobbleheads. Can you imagine? It was just like. That was a real one I turned down. I was like, I don't know. This could be cool. Then I saw someone else's bobblehead and I was like One that got away, you know. I don't know. I'll probably end up doing this in a year, which is we'll look back at this and laugh.”

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  29. “The rocks are hot there in San Diego. I was like, give me that milk. Yeah, so he was a great guy and he taught me a lot of important lessons and things along the way. And I don't know. I feel like I always had a bit of excitement about it. I always wanted to know more. And my mom is definitely someone that's influenced me way more than anybody you can imagine. I mean, she was the one that was driving obviously my father as well, but my mom was at the time. She was my mom. She was my business manager. She was kind of my agent. She was, you know, making sandwiches. She was doing everything. And so, you know, I really so thankful that she was there at that pivotal, you know, that important time in my life.”

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  30. “Might be on to something, and he came back to meet me and he said he didn't want to meet with me and my mom. He just wanted to meet with me. And he's like, I'll never forget it. I realized how young you were because you sat down and ordered a milk I don't remember the last time I was like, I'll just take a milk.”

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  31. “I was really fortunate when I was younger to come across an agent named Mark Irvin at IMG and he was a really great guy. I mean, we worked together for probably eight years or more. But he was really someone that I looked to and he's like, you know, we could do these things and we can work with these companies and we won't even do the deal until we have the approvals. And kind of like we put ourselves out there to where You know, we wouldn't even get the deals unless we knew they wanted to like work with me, not tell me how to do what I do. But he was a great mentor in that space. And it was funny because my mom, I mean, when he tells the story, it's pretty good because my mom asked him to represent me and he said, no, because he was really busy, had all these other big clients. And then he, I think he went back and like checked me out online. He's like, oh, this kid's money.”

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  32. “It's like the only redhead around. I was like, oh, this just won't work. And so all I remember is I signed this poster for this kid and I'm thinking now he's going to put it on his wall. All his friends are going to see it. This is just awful. And so, but the product in the shot was amazing. I mean, this thing, you snatch it off the page and drink it. It just looks so good. And I'm like, this isn't fair. I want to change this. I want to be able to prove these things. And I asked my agent at the time about it. And my parents, I was like, what's up with this? And he's like, oh, you want the right, you want to look through all these and actually approve them? I'm like, yeah, I want to be a part of that. I want to know what's going on with my name on it. And that was like my slow intro to having more control of the imagery and my likeness and all of those things that come out that I'm endorsing, I guess.”

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  33. “Yeah, no, I'm sorry. So I totally got lost there. Excuse me. No, so what happened was I was growing with the success and so sponsors were coming to me and asking me, hey, we want to do this ad. We want to put you in this commercial spot and these things. And I'll never forget the day this kid came up to me. And asked me to autograph this poster for him, and I'm looking at the poster and I'm like, I look horrible in this photo. It's just terrible. Like the worst photo ever. And I was young. I was like super sensitive about how you're insecure about how you're still pretty sensitive and insecure.”

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  34. “Nun, it's a great question. I mean, I feel very fortunate that I was able to grow with my success within the spore. It started here, the free snowboard, and then it became, hey, we'll give you a travel budget to get around your competitions. And then I actually started getting paid to snowboard. And I went pro and these things. Sorry, I got a little lost. What were we talking about? Oh, no.”

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  35. “They were cool. I mean, your question was about me letting it go to my head, I guess. My parents are really great at making sure, you know, I just had a normal childhood in that sense. Like, you know, I was doing the snowboard stuff, which was cool and all, but they're like, you got to do your homework. You got to do, you know, they were encouraging with the snowboarding, but they kept me in line when I came home.”

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  36. “So what I'm getting at is I had my whole life on the mountain and then I'd come home and I'm like walking to school like everyone else. I was like doing homework and walking the dog like doing normal things. So I never really got to kind of like have my head blown up because I never lived.”

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  37. “I don't know, it was a strange circumstance because I was sponsored by Burton, but it wasn't the biggest, I mean, it was a really amazing thing, but it was the circumstance of just like the right place in the right time. Burton Snowwards was actually coming out with a whole line of kids' products and they needed kids to ride their board. So they're like, oh, we got a local kid here and he'll ride your stuff. And then a local kid there. And so I was kind of like part of the development team. We were testing products, doing all these things for them. But I remember the encouragement was they're like, we'll give you this free snowboard. You keep riding. We'll give you another one. And so it didn't really like, I mean, as a kid, like that's all the motivation you need. You're like, oh, I'm getting in this next snowboard. But I lived in San Diego area. There's not much snow. I mean, if you were a”

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  38. “I have an older brother and an older sister, I have actually two older sisters and an older brother. So I'm the youngest. But the two, so there's my sister Carrie, who's one year older than me, and then my brother Jesse, who's a half-brother, who's seven years older, and then I have a sister named Jessica, who I don't see as much, so she's kind of the one that's like, that's why in the beginning I was like, oh, I got a brother and a sister. So a half-sister, and she's great, but we don't see much of her.”

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  39. “My mom was a waitress and she worked at the Hilton Hotel at Tory Pines. It's now the Sheraton. It's now the Hilton. And my dad worked for the city of San Clemente and the water department. I don't really know what that means. I'm pretty convinced he was the guy that had the roadmap out. Was like actually sleeping behind it. You know what I'm saying? He was like fixing main brakes and all sorts of things that were going on, but we always, whenever I ask my mom, she's like, he's sleeping. He's sleeping on the job. It's like, oh, wow. Pretty harsh.”

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  40. “Terrible influence too. No, it just brought him down to reality. I was like, oh, he's a dad. He's got to deal with kids and these things. And it allowed us to become friends. I took him as a person rather than as this untouchable guy. So that's how he really influenced me growing up. He never really kind of steered me in any direction. He was just someone to be observed at that time, at that young age.”

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  41. “Was just sticky. And I was like, what the? There's like jelly on it. And then there's like, and I'm looking, I'm like, wow, there's like there's chips buried in the seats. And I was like, oh man, there's like a car seat. I was like, oh, this is a dad. He's a dad. I was wondering”

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  42. “It's good. So, you know, as a kid, I was just like looking up to him and he was doing it, but he was great. He was a family man at the time. And so that's something that really kind of allowed us to become friends, at least in my eyes, because he was this like untouchable figure. And then he asked me to come to a demo once or to go on the, actually it was the Tony Hawk Gigantic Skate Park Tour, which I was just like baffled. I was just amazed he actually asked me to go on this. And I remember getting to his house. He had this big house and the gate opened up and my mom's like, just go in. I'm like, okay. And I like wander in there. And, you know, he had a couple nice cars. And it's like back when having a TV screen and your car was just the craziest thing ever. And he had a PlayStation in the glove block in the glove box. You know, kid, I was just like, this is just incredible. And all I remember is I go to grab the remote, the controller.”

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  43. “Yeah, you should make your own video game, or you should do this. I mean, it never really was him telling me what to do or advice or anything. He was just actually the only guy going through everything that I was just about to go through. I mean, his video game came out. He just landed his 900 at the X Games and he was world famous and people would approach him. And I was just sitting standby, a witness to all this, like, well, how did he talk to his fans? And like, oh, he's still a normal guy. He's like, he's eating the dirty ice out of the limousine mini bar. Like, you know what I mean? Like, he's like, I don't care. Whatever. Like, he was just the same guy. I was like, oh, that's cool. I was eating ice. That was a kid. I was like, all right.”

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  44. “You know, he really, he wasn't, he wasn't. I mean, that's the funny thing is he never really kind of like sat me down and gave me certain advice. It wasn't like, hey, you should, uh, wasn't.”

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  45. “showed a lot of promise. No, but I started to learn and he owned the company Birdhouse Skateboards and so is my dream. Not only that once he then talked to me in my mind, he was then going to ask me to ride for a skateboard company. I had it all worked out. So, you know, he finally came up to me and we became friends and he invited me to come do some demos with him because he was doing these, you know, hey, we're going to show up and we're going to skate and sell skateboards for birdhouse and things like that. And I was kind of like the token little kid on the ramp, but I was learning at the time better and better tricks. So I slowly became. Really, really good rider skaters.”

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  46. “I can't recall. It was probably doing a McTwist, which is... A trick invented by a skateboarder named Mike McGill, and it's like a front flip wall spinning of 540. So 540 is degrees of rotation, you know, if you take a full circle as a 360, so keep adding up.”

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  47. “Man, Tony Hawk, I was probably like... Five years old or something like that, he would come to the local skate park. I was just lucky enough to grow up in Dalmar was the area and he skated at the local YMCA in Incinitas. And so I would go there and he would just be there. So I got to kind of like say hi and watch him do his thing. You know, it's one of the best ramps in town. He grew up skating Del Mar. I wasn't of the age group that got to skate the cement park that they had, but there's a very famous skate park at Del Mar. And so I ran into him all the time. And I was a little fearful to talk to him. I mean, it was Tony Hawk, so I never really said much to him. I just wanted to impress him enough with my skating that he would come talk to me one day. And so, yeah, he finally came to me and I was just like, yeah.”

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  48. “As a little kid, you're not really encountering a lot of scuba. It's like, oh, that's whatever. Now as an adult, it's a real pain. You're floating on the surface and everyone's down there. Pet and sharks”

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  49. “I did something where I overexerted myself, and I just wasn't ready for that. But I don't know. My parents never really told me I couldn't do anything, which was, I think the reason why I was never fearful, you know, so I always went out and I would do sports. Do whatever. The only thing I was told I couldn't do was scuba dive. I don't know why it was like anomaly of something about the air bubble getting, I don't know.”

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  50. “The very beginning, Sean. Let me take you back. No, it's actually a little bit of a sad story, you know, or just a bit of a struggle in the beginning. You know, I was born with a heart defect. I was called tetrology fellau. So I don't know too technically what happened, but some of the valves in my heart were leaking and I had to go in and have multiple open heart surgeries in order to correct this. I was known as what's called a blue baby. Actually, my skin was turning blue because I wasn't getting enough oxygen. And so, you know, my mom sent me in there multiple operations. They said, you're going to have a sluggish heart. He won't be very active. You should be ready for these things. And then, you know, sure enough, I want to do that. I want to go jump off things and, you know, run around. And I only had a couple incidents where, you know, I like passed out on a soccer field once or, you know.”

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