“Cameron paints complicated tricks in his head before trying to land them on a half-pipe in his backyard. The 90-pound competitor recently won the first two legs of a national five-leg freestyle scooter competition called Raise the Gnar. (Raymond Warner, of Murrieta, won the advanced division of the first leg.)

With several dozen tricks in his pocket, Cameron is young to reach the intermediate level, by most standards, having competed at least five times and, as he likes to say, “On the cusp of pro.”

“It’s full-time fun for me,” Cameron said casually from underneath an oversized skater hat emblazoned with a skull and wings, clutching one of his six scooters before diving into hours of practice. “I’ve been doing it long enough now (a year-and-a-half) that I can’t stop doing it. Even if I tried, I couldn’t stop because I’m so addicted.”

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