I'm positively swooning over how awesome my daughter is. Both of my kids, obviously, but this week the spotlight is on Dangerg!rl, 4 year-old birthday girl extraordinaire. For her birthday this year, she asked for a purple skateboard and also for a purple salon chair so she could style her dolls' hair. That's precisely the kind of balance I've been striving for at Action Academy, but here's the real reason I'm feeling four different flavors of fatherly pride over the whole thing:

 

When you're a lifelong skateboarder and Daredev!l Dad and your daughter tells you that one of the things she most wants in all the world is her very own skateboard.... Let's just say that regular readers of Action Academy are well-acquainted with the depths to which I've been known to nerd out. I'd been looking all over the place for a perfect purple skateboard to meet the occasion, when suddenly the universe perfectly aligned according to Dangerg!rl's purple parameters. 

In my other life outside of the superhero training facility known as Action Academy, my bespectacled Clark Kent alter ego writes about skateboarding and action sports for a living. Earlier this month FUEL.TV sent me out to San Diego to cover the ASR Action Sports Retailers convention, and on the flight home I met a representative from Boardpusher.com, a custom skateboard printing shop in South Denver and put my plan in motion. I wrote a bit more about it over at the FUEL.TV site, but thought Dangerg!rl fans would appreciate the skateboard and graphics, plus a rare peek at the birthday girl in full tiara regalia clutching her prize:

 – Colin Bane