A lot of people said I was the best in the world in the late 1980s. The record books show otherwise — that I often took second place to a guy named Tony Hawk. But record books don’t tell the whole story. They don’t say that I was known to be the most popular skateboarder of my time, and the highest paid. They don’t say that my nickname was Christ, and that I was the inventor of a trick called Christ Air. They don’t say that I was an outlaw and have lived in defiance of most laws, including gravity, most of my life. Everything had been one big experiment to see how far I could push things. And I pushed them further than anyone thought possible. I thought I got away with everything, but I was wrong.
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