I like to try all kinds of styles so it always challenges me and forces me to try to look different.
People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.
I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.
Falling down became second nature and it really didn't bother me.
I started skating when I was six years old.
I worked also, doing things such as our paper route and, later on, waitressing.