“I like challenging myself. It is something I have always done,” Eckert said. “I challenged myself to draw that maze, I did it, and once I was finished with it, I moved on.” A year after he and his ...

A few years later, Eckert’s friend, Mike Smith, who started the Bay, a skate park in Lincoln, Nebraska, approached Eckert about officially breaking the record. He was putting together a skateboarding ...