A skater named Danny Way has successfully jumped the great wall of China. Expect this to be a level in every skateboarding, snowboarding and BMX game made in the next five years.

But this is really what made me chuckle.

A crowd of several thousand people, including China’s ministers of extreme sports and culture, gathered at the Ju Yong Guan Gate about a 40-minute drive from Beijing, Quiksilver’s greater China marketing director Ryan Hollis said.

China has a Minister of Extreme Sports? Never mind how hard it was to get a Homeland Security czar off the ground here in the states — is anyone else imagining a fifty year old Asian man with a multicolor mohawk sitting in on otherwise staid and conservative (yet communist) cabinet meetings? EXTREME!