Too young to be this good

You know I have a little theory about skateboarding.

In the same way as soccer is so popular in developing countries because it is cheap and simple to put together a game, and there are many tricks and skills to learn with the ball - I think skating is the same.

True, if you want skating to be expensive there are many companies who will sell you umpteen different t-shirts and different polymer-composite wheels to put your credit card on cryogenics... but at it's essence it is a piece of wood with wheels. If you showed it to someone who had never seen one before, at best they would consider it a clunky mode of transport.

But when you combine this kid with his board and wheels you don't have just a piece of transport. You have a piece of performance art.