There's been so much trial and tribulation and the irony of, you know, falling and getting back up has become such a big part of my life because, you know, if you don't know how to fall, you can't learn how to skateboard.

And falling is part of everything.

I mean, you're getting fall on your face all the time,

but it's how quickly you can get back up.

Or if you get hurt when you fall on your face, how quickly can you rehab

yourself out of it. Yeah. You know, and that mentality applies to pretty much

universally everything. Welcome to Living 4D with Ball Check. In this two-part episode, Paul Talks with Legendary Skateboarder, Danny Wave.

Winner of six X Games medals, including five gold ones, Danny has set or broken numerous world

records, including biggest air and longest distance jump on a skateboard.

Well, Danny, great to see you buddy.

Always the pleasure, my friend.

What a journey we've both been on, eh?

Yeah, it's been a long run.

A long ride, a lot of experience over the last 25 years that we've known each other.

Yeah, wow, I remember when you first came to me, you were in, you were in a lot of pain and a lot of trouble,

but we worked through it, didn't we? Yeah you know and that was a long

journey of lots of disappointments to get to hearing about you and getting led to the one person that finally I guess

trusted at that point to guide me out of this stitch I was physically in.

Yeah, I know it was scary for you. It was a very serious injury.

Yeah, and not many people understood. Not anybody understood and you know I I don't

know how many hands I went through at that point before I heard about you and got a hold of

you and at that point I was just like I guess I'll try anything because I don't know what

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