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1980S At the age of six, Way was a Del Mar local. In 1986 , at age 12, he won his first competition. He was connected to the skateboarding scene shortly afterwards by ''Hosoi'' and ''Vision''. In and was given the finale part in that company's first video, ''Shackle Me Not''. Danny again was given the finale part in H-Street's follow up video, "Hokus Pokus", filmed in 1989 and released in February of the following year. 1990S In 1990 , Way left H-Street to join Blind . He left Blind in late 1991 to start a new company called Plan B Skateboards with former ''H-Street'' co-founder Mike Ternasky. This same year, he was named Skater Of The Year by Thrasher Magazine . Having already established himself as one of the best skateboarders on vertical halfpipes, Danny turned more attention to street skating as it became the only popular form of skateboarding in the early 1990's, and became among the best at this form as well. He has enduring video parts from 1992's ''Questionable'' and 1993's ''Virtual Reality''. In 1994 , Way broke his neck due to a Surfing accident. It took him a year to recover. For this reason, he was not part of the Plan B video ''Second Hand Smoke'' that was made in 1994. He returned to skateboarding in 1995 to win the Tampa Pro Vert Competition. He broke the world record for the highest air on a skateboard in 1997. He did a 12-foot Kickflip , and is the first and only skateboarder to drop out of a Helicopter onto a ramp. The feat was repeated in 1999 for MTV . 2000S Between 1999 and 2002 Danny underwent 7 surgeries, 5 on his knee and 2 on his shoulder. Late in 2002, Way built the first Megaramp. 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 Skateboarding 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 ever Skateboarding Big Air contest held at the '' X Games '' at the Staples Center in Los Angeles , California . He established a new 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 , he jumped the Great Wall Of China on a skateboard, becoming the first person to clear the wall without motorized aid. On August 7, 2005, despite a sprained ankle and having his first three runs of the Finals leaving him far behind the leader pack, he managed a comeback to win the Summer X Games 11 Skateboarding Big Air contest. On his fourth run, he landed a frontside 360, gaining the highest score of all, a 94.75, which was good enough for his second-consecutive win in this event. On April 6, 2006, Way set the world record for a bomb drop (a general skateboarding term for jumping off anything) in Las Vegas, Nevada He jumped off the 82 foot, 3 inch Hard Rock Cafe guitar into a Quarter Pipe {Link without Title} . CONTEST HISTORY
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