X Games fixture, mega ramp creator and defending Big Air Rail Jam champion, Danny Way, will not compete in the Big Air or the Big Air Rail Jam this year at X Games 16. It was the talk of the Coliseum at Wednesday's practice session and qualifying round. Way, who is one of the true warriors of skateboarding, and has overcame countless hard slams, isn't pulling out because of an injury is he? Of course not.

Then why is he not going to compete this year? Well, you came to the right place. While I was cruising around the Coliseum during Wednesday's practice I happened to run into the one and only Danny Way, and I just so happened to have a cameraman with me, so here's the answer straight from the man himself: