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The production company will also work closely with CA RampWorks on course design and construction, according to its sports and competition director, Jeff Jewett, who runs CA Productions with cofounder Brian Harper, its director of operations.

According to Jewett, the CA Productions game plan makes sense for ESPN as it attempts to streamline event management heading into what's likely to become its busiest X Games season yet.

Learn more. X Games Aspen Schedule Announcement. X Games Aspen Returns Jan. X Games Aspen Is Back! In , the Baltimore native quit his job at an auto body shop and moved to California to pursue skateboarding full time, and his life changed forever. Since then, Lasek has become the most decorated vert skater in X Games history, with eight gold and 14 medals total. Overall, Lasek has 20 medals in 23 appearances.

And at age 43, Lasek was the oldest invited skateboarder at X Games Austin , but he says he's nowhere near the end of his career. Ryan Sheckler might be one of the most popular skateboarder in X Games history, thanks in part to his MTV reality show, "Life of Ryan," which ran for three seasons and earned him millions of mainstream fans.

But for a legion of core skateboarders, his skateboarding is his greatest accomplishment and it is video parts, such as Plan B's "True," that will go down in the history books. In , Sheckler, at 13, became the youngest gold medalist in X Games history, a record he still holds. Ryan has won seven medals in 17 X Games appearances. From an early age, the skateboard world has been fortunate enough to watch Nyjah Huston grow up before their eyes, tagging along on his journey to his rightful place in the skateboarding Hall of Fame.

In , Huston earned the title of being the youngest athlete to compete in X Games history, when he was only He's now the second-youngest competitor of all time. Fast forward a decade, Huston now has 12 X Games medals to his name. He has medaled in his past 10 X Games Skateboard Street starts -- a success rate untouched by anyone else in skateboarding.

It has been remarkable to have watched Huston go from being a contest machine coached by his father to one of the most respected street skaters of the modern age, producing some of the heaviest video parts in recent history. And it's only getting better from here. The entire skateboard world knew that Bob Burnquist was something special when he arrived in the U.

His abilities were so pure, humble and progressive that when asked by Thrasher Magazine if he could spin s, his response was, "Which way? No one else in skateboarding has grinded a rail into the Grand Canyon, done a loop switch, or used a moving helicopter as an obstacle.

At age 40, Burnquist holds the record for the most medals in X Games history with 30 total in 25 X Games appearances, and he is the only athlete to compete in all 25 X Games summer events. He has 13 consecutive Skateboard Big Air medals, and he is also the first skater in the world to land the on the MegaRamp.

If there were a tough man award in skateboarding, Danny Way would win it, hands down. One of the few skaters to ever receive Thrasher Magazine's Skater of the Year twice, Danny Way is a true all terrain skater. He's also the skateboarder who helped to pioneer MegaRamp skating, and was integral in introducing the discipline to X Games competition.

Way has always been regarded as one of the greatest of all time by both his peers and fans, but that sentiment was amplified when Way began performing death-defying stunts at the end of the s, including jumps out of helicopters, long-distance jumps and a skateboard long jump over the Great Wall of China in Still, he got back up, insisted on taking every run of the contest and won silver for his efforts.

Last year, Way partnered with the "World of X Games" to continue pushing his quest for high air beyond his limits. Since turning pro for Powell Peralta in at age 14, Tony Hawk has been widely regarded as the greatest skateboarder of all time. As the most popular skater in the world, Hawk's contributions to the culture of skateboarding for the past 35 years as both a global ambassador of goodwill and an innovator within the sport are unparalleled.

He has even pushed a skateboard inside of the White House. Although Hawk hasn't officially competed at X Games since , there are few names more synonymous with the event. Having medaled every year he competed, Hawk was a vocal supporter of the event from the beginning.

Hawk's most defining X Games moment came in during the Vert Best Trick competition, when he became the first person ever to land the , a trick he had been trying for 13 years.

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