McClain skates bowls and pools with a raw surplus of energy that sets him apart from the pack, in any session. His transition skills can be attributed to the California real-estate bubble bursting, giving this Livermore, California skater unfettered access to abandoned houses with empty backyard pools. It was there, in the backyards of the foreclosed, that he learned to rip on the harshest and steepest of transitions, so that skating a park was a walk in the park.