Danny Way (born April 15, 1974 in Portland, Oregon) is a professional skateboarder. Events 1450 - Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. Portland is a city located in the Northwestern United States, near the Confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers Skateboarding is the act of riding and performing tricks using a Skateboard. He rode for Powell Peralta in the late 1980s. He was featured, with Chet Thomas, in very short segment in the Powell video "Public Domain. " Soon after Way left Powell to ride for H-Street, a then little known company.
In the 3rd season of The hit MTV show Rob and Big he joins the crew to celebrate Dramas 21 birthday. MTV ( Music Television) is an American Cable television network based in New York City. Rob & Big was an American Reality television series that followed the lives of professional skateboarder, Rob Dyrdek, and his
In late 2002, Way built the first Mega Ramp. A Mega Ramp is the informal name given to any large-format ramp structure used in Freestyle BMX and Skateboarding. With it, he set a new ramp to ramp record of 65 feet and a new highest air record of 18 feet, 3 inches (5. 6 m).
He won the Transworld Vert award in 2003 .
A second version of the Megaramp was built. On June 19, 2003, Danny broke two world records in one run: the longest ramp to ramp record at 75 feet and the highest air at 23. 5 feet. He also broke records for the highest Fast Plant, highest Christ Air, and highest McTwist. On May 26, the DC Video came out, with all the Megaramp footage. Later Way added the Megabox and the Rainbow Rail to the Megaramp for additional footage in the DC Deluxe Edition.
He won Best Vert at the 6th annual Transworld Skateboarding Awards.
He won gold in 2004 at the first Skateboarding Big Air contest held at the X Games at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. The X Games is an annual event with a focus on extreme action sports Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. He set a distance record of 79 feet.
Late in 2004 he became the first and only person to win the Thrasher Magazine Skater of the Year twice.
On July 9, 2005, Danny Way completed a 360 across the Great Wall of China with a broken ankle. Events 455 - Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
He won another gold in the 2006 X Games Big Air. The X Games is an annual event with a focus on extreme action sports He did this by clearing the 70ft gap with a Rocket Air Backflip, riding the half-pipe to a height of 95. A half-pipe is a structure used in gravity Extreme sports such as Snowboarding, Skateboarding, Skiing, freestyle BMX and 0ft.