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New marks for highest and longest airs on a skateboard set the bar for "Op King of Skate" in first two days of pay-per-view production.

Professional skateboarder Danny Way this week set two successive world records for both the longest and highest airs successfully landed on a skateboard. Way, one of six elite skateboarders competing in the Op King of Skate contest, a pay-per-view television event, achieved the feats during the filming of the program.

Way, 27, of Encinitas, Calif., first broke the world record for longest air on Tuesday, beating the previously held mark of 58 feet, with a jump 60 feet 10 inches. By the end of the day, Way reached the 65-foot mark, after dropping down a 49-foot roll-in and achieving speeds of up to 50 mph.

"I really wanted 70 feet," Way said after more than 40 bone-jarring attempts, "but that’s good enough for the Guinness Book."

Returning to the secret Southern California desert location the next morning, miraculously able to walk, Way reaffirmed his reputation as a strong-willed, determined skateboarder and a worthy suitor of the Op King of Skate title. Rocketing 50 feet over the same gap as the previous day, Way upped the ante by spinning 360 degrees in the air, landing firmly, then powering up 20 feet of quarterpipe and launching into the air 18 feet 3 inches, eclipsing his previous highest-air record of 16 feet 6 inches.

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	D Way rolls into the record books again. . . New marks for highest and longest airs on a skateboard set the bar for "Op King of Skate" in first two days of pay-per-view production. Professional skateboarder Danny Way this week set two successive world records for both the longest and highest airs successfully landed on a skateboard. Way, one of six elite skateboarders competing in the Op King of Skate contest, a pay-per-view television event, achieved the feats during the filming of the program. Way, 27, of Encinitas, Calif., first broke the world record for longest air on Tuesday, beating the previously held mark of 58 feet, with a jump 60 feet 10 inches. By the end of the day, Way reached the 65-foot mark, after dropping down a 49-foot roll-in and achieving speeds of up to 50 mph. "I really wanted 70 feet," Way said after more than 40 bone-jarring attempts, "but that’s good enough for the Guinness Book." Returning to the secret Southern California desert location the next morning, miraculously able to walk, Way reaffirmed his reputation as a strong-willed, determined skateboarder and a worthy suitor of the Op King of Skate title. Rocketing 50 feet over the same gap as the previous day, Way upped the ante by spinning 360 degrees in the air, landing firmly, then powering up 20 feet of quarterpipe and launching into the air 18 feet 3 inches, eclipsing his previous highest-air record of 16 feet 6 inches.