He described an interview with a 21 year old participant in the event who talked about the young champion: "Yeah, when I was young, I just didn't care about anything either and took crazy chances the same way he does now." When he was young. Both racers had broken numerous bones in their "careers", participating in stunts and events that seemed more like scenes you'd see in a comic book where the characters bend and bounce like rubber balls instead of going "splat" like real people. Back when that 21 year old was young, he did really crazy stunts too, just like that 15 year old champion.

My friend described one event where the motorcycle rider raced up the side of a ramp and flew off the top, perhaps 70 feet into the air. The idea was to do what I'm describing as "acrobatics" while descending, lying down flat on the bike, doing handstands, whatever, landing upright without crashing. The 15 year old turned in a performance that was unreal, gaining 99 out of 100 points on his first run. The old guy in the event, the 33 year old, was faced with an impossible challenge, but turned in two excellent runs, then stopped at the base of the ramp, the crowd wondering what he was up to. An assistant handed him a black hood, which he tied over his head, then gunned up the ramp at speed and went through his acrobatics entirely blind, landing successfully. The crowd went nuts, but still, because of the earlier score achieved the by 15 year old champion, he had no real chance of winning. You don't score higher than 99 out of a hundred. Crazy chances, great theater.

The 15 year old came back for his second set. With the 99 out of a hundred score it didn't matter what he did, he'd essentially won, so he ran through twice, but stopped before continuing with his third and final go. The crowd wondered what was happening. The 15 year old had aligned his motorcycle on a track that led to a banked curve away from the ramp he'd been participating on. He gunned his engine and accelerated violently toward that banked curve, the crowd realizing he was nuts because he was going too fast to hold, curved or not, and he was clearly going to crash if he held his line. At the last moment, going into that curve at what was clearly suicidal speed, he ran up the side, using it to launch his motorcycle into an arc that landed him into San Francisco Bay. The crowd was absolutely destroyed and the 15 year old had topped the hooded rider's stunt with a spectacular finale.

I don't know anything about extreme sports. I don't know anything about this 15 year old kid, they say he takes chances. I don't know, but from the story, I'd say he was one hell a performer in a sport where I guess at 21, you're history.