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MINNEAPOLIS, MN – JULY 21: Toby Ryan drops in during practice for the Skateboard Big Air Final during the ESPN X Games at U.S. Bank Stadium on July 21, 2018 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images) /

9. 14-year-old Toby Ryan drops into The Real Cost Skateboard Big Air course as youngest in the field

On a ramp with a 63-foot gap that leads to a 27-foot high quarterpipe, one would assume that only the biggest and bravest riders would attempt this monster. Don’t tell that to 14-year-old skateboarding phenom Toby Ryan. Ryan stands just 4-foot-7, but he can fly higher than some of the best out there.

Ryan was competing with men that were three times his age, but he didn’t let that intimidate him. The little man went out there are threw some of the sickest tricks the fans have ever seen.

As an X Games rookie, Ryan surprised many by hanging with the big guns in one of the most feared competitions in all of the X Games. He was competing against some of the best skaters in the game including Mitchie Brusco, Rony Gomes and Jake Brown. Brown had won the Big Air competition in 2009 and 2010 and has been competing at X Games since 1997. If Jake Brown is the past and present of this sport, Toby Ryan is the future.

When Ryan is not soaring through U.S. Bank Stadium, he can be seen on YouTube ripping it up in his skate videos. Ryan has quite the following with the extreme sports crowd, and for good reason.

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