Six-foot-two and eyes of blue, Adam Senn is truly the ultimate skateboard kid. He talks in a low, quiet voice, filled with exclamations of "Dude!" and "Man!" and "Awesome!" But there's more to this new icon of indolence than meets the eye — a fire burning inside Adam Senn that puts the 'rock' in his board's cool 'roll'. An Aries, born in Paris, France, on April 10, 1984, Adam Senn was raised in Bridge City, a township in the southeast corner of Texas, right up against the Lousiana boundary.

Do you have any memories of Bridge City?

Yeah, man, I got crazy memories. But that would be like VH-1 'Behind the Music' stuff.

When you were that young? Really?

Yeah, it's a long story. I was kind of raised both by my mom and by my grandparents, so my grandparents were like my parents in a way. We were so close. And the thing is, I couldn't really see my dad much, because he was kind of banned. But something pretty tragic happened and my grandparents both died. So when that happened, my parents married and we moved away to Sugarland, TX, when I was seven.

So you got a new family and a new life at the age of seven? Sugarland must have been a huge change for you then.

Well yeah. For one thing, Sugarland wasn't as segregated as Bridge City, and the kids weren't straight out of the woods, so that was a lot better. I mean, it's still rural farmland, but it was a real community. And we lived in this great house on a golf course, so I loved it. I played golf every single day. I mean, I've really loved every sport, ever since I was little, but golf and baseball were always my main priorities.