The Biggest Lesson I Learned From My

The Best Advice I Can Give Is To Believe In Yourself And To Create New Challenges No Matter How Far You Get. Even If You Think You Earned It All Or If You're Considered The Best In The World, Keep Challenging Yourself Because You're Only As Good As Your Last Trick In The Public's Eye. But Only Do It Because You Love It. Don't Do It Because You Think It's Your Ticket To Fame Or Fortune. If That's The Motivation And You Reach Any Of Those Goals, You're Not Going To Keep That Passion.

If You Look At The Success Of Snowboarding In The Winter Games And How That's Brought A More Youthful Edge To The Olympics In General, They Don't Have That With The Summer Games. They Don't Have Anything That's Drawing In A Younger Viewership. To Be Honest, I Think They Need Skateboarding More Than We Need Them. Skateboarding's Popularity Is Solidified For The Most Part In A Lot Of Countries.

I Think That There's A Sense Of Self-reliance That Exists In Skateboarding That Kids Can Take To Their Daily Lives. I Think There's Also A Sense Of Creativity And Community-based Goals - In Skating, Even Though It Is An Individual Pursuit, A Lot Of Things That You Learn Are Things That You Borrow And Expand From Other People's Ideas. I Call Skating A Combined Evolution - It's Individual, It's Artistic, But At The Time, There Is A Communal Push To Keep Doing Your Thing. And A Sense Of Camaraderie In That.

My Definition Of Success Is Doing What You Love. I Feel Many People Do Things Because They Feel They Have To, And Are Hesitant To Risk Following Their Passion.

I'm Proud That I Was Able To Use My Recognition To, Maybe, Raise The Awareness Of Skateboarding And Help Grow It, And To Help Fund Public Skateparks. That's The Legacy, Just Trying To Grow The Entire Sport.