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I read some articles about his early years a while back. He had an absolutely insane focus on his craft. He’d spend a fixed amount of minutes training his riding skills, his match routines and freestyle skills every single day. If somebody came up to talk to him, he’d stop the clock, because those minutes wouldn’t count towards his training regime. Apparently, at some point, a friend drove 20 hours across the country to meet him, and arrived in the middle of his training session. He politely told the dude to wait till he was done, because he was in the middle of his routine. He was in a league of his own, and I think it’s safe the say he singlehandedly lifted the sport to unimagined levels. I mean, he invented the kickflip and heelflip ffs.. The guy is a living example of achieving the impossible, and making it look easy in the process. An absolute legend!