Danny Way has been pro for 20 years. As a celebration Plan B has put up a 20th anniversary tribute site full of goodness. All his video parts are up there as well as loads of his best pics and coverage. If you are going to watch only one of the video parts I would recommend the On Video piece. It shows his ridiculous achievements up until 2000. The crazy thing is he has gone on to do even more this century: still flying the flag of progressive skating probably higher than anyone else. Sure you can go on the old ‘stunts are not skateboarding’ rant but Danny has lived to rip more diverse skating than anyone else on the planet. There is not much that hasn’t been said about Danny, so instead of repeating what you may have heard several times I thought I would share a little anecdote about when I met Danny, the day he jumped the Great Wall of China.

It was the after party for the Great Wall Jump and I was sitting at a table with Dave Swift, Grant Britain and Jake Phelps. Now this was a random assortment as it was pretty much Transworld guys (now Skateboard Maggers) sitting with the Thrasher guy. It is kind of like sitting at a table with Osama and George Bush. Talk about two world’s colliding! I tried to loosen up the vibe by introducing them to the strongest Aussie beer. I knew I had a plane to catch back to Glasgow in the morning so I took it pretty easy that night myself. After we had eaten some snacks I was back over at the bar. It was then that Danny walked in, well come to think of it, it was more of a hobble. As you may know Danny not only aired and three-sixtied the wall three times, he did it with a broken ankle. On top of that he nearly died when he got blown back over the lip of the quarter pipe on his final high air attempt. Anyway so a super human walks into a bar. He is applauded by the crowd for his efforts earlier in the day. The super human approaches the bar. The super human is then asked what he would like to drink. The barman has no idea that he is talking to one of the bravest, most coordinated super-people to ever walk the earth. Lets alone does he know that he has just had his signature embedded in the Great Wall for eternity. Random Australian tourist on the other side of the bar is thinking. “Ok so what would I order to drink if I had just jumped the Great Wall of China? Surely it would be something that was dark and contained Coke. Maybe a Slayer Surprise or a Megadeth on the rocks or something.”

No...

The super human, One D. Way asks for a Vodka Cranberry. What? A Vodka Cranberry? That is like the least scary drink of all time being ordered by the least scared person of all time.

 * Photo above shot by Spike Jonze, image below is Danny's 20th anniversary graphic completed by the one and only Wes Humpston.