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Humboldt Beginnings

By Ryan Leyba
ESPN.com/Action

Friday, October 23, 2009

The Humboldt region of Northern California seems like it would be a great place to grow up as a kid. You've got the coastline, huge redwood tree-infested forests, and acres of lush land to pretty much do anything you want. But, for a kid profusely obsessed with a sport that nobody acknowledged, Humboldt County couldn't have been any worse of a place to grow up. Today, Humboldt's Julian Dusseau is a well-respected professional FMX rider, but his quest to stardom was anything but peachy. I hit h ...

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