Photo: Mike Blabac
Prints of Blabac's photos of Danny Way are for sale
at BlabacPhoto.com as part of Plan B's celebration
of Way's 20 year anniversary as a pro skater.Plan B has a sick new micro site up touting Danny Way's 20 year anniversary as a pro skater, with a 20 year D. Way timellne courtesy of The Skateboard Mag, links to Wes Humstead's old-school design for a 20th anniversary graphic, a gallery of Way's magazine covers, and a selection of video clips, from the 1989 H-Street video Hocus Pocus to his most recent 2009 clips for Plan B.

At the risk of dating myself here, I'll admit that Hocus Pocus is one of my all time favorites: Danny and I are about the same age, and 1989 was the year he and I first crossed paths, at the Bobby G Skate Camp in San Diego. I had just learned to drop in, he had just turned pro, and the gulf between our skateboarding abilities would continue to grow over 20 years, but he's always been one of my skate heroes.

Way has always been able to hold his own: On a vert ramp, in a bowl, on the street, and on these crazy Megaramp structures he helped devise. Lately, I'd argue, he's gone just plain nutso, wrecking himself like a ragdoll at X Games in the dogged pursuit of his dreams at risk of life and limb. Still, gotta hand it to the guy: There's NOBODY who has done as much to expand the concept of what is possible on a skateboard.

That 2007 backside disaster photo there is by Mike Blabac: Blabac's selling 16x20 ($100) and 20x30 ($250) special edition prints of his Danny Way photos to help celebrate the anniversary.