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The dictionaries of the future will be quite different from today’s. Due to advances in technology and simultaneously dwindling literacy rates, Merriam-Webster’s 2030 edition will include only this video clip of Levi Hawken bombing hills in Auckland, New Zealand next to its definition of “raw”:

He’s also probably the scariest looking human I’ve seen, ever. Which seems appropriate considering you’d have to be some kind of beast to handle those hills with such brazen ferocity. The last hill, complete with BMX torso armor, is kind of like Mad Max meets everything good about skateboarding ever, which has really always been the zenith I was hoping this sport would achieve. This degree of intensity is a marvel to behold — there wasn’t a single kick flip in this video, hell, there was only one ollie, but that doesn’t diminish the purity of Levi Hawken’s skateboarding by even the smallest percentage. You’d have to be a real prick to debate how hardcore this is, yet somehow I have a feeling that prick exists out there… probably in great numbers in fact. In which case, it’s a good thing that Levi’s trapped on an island in the Pacific Ocean. It just feels safer that way.