>> roger white: six-, eight-foot chain link fence. >> cathy white: we both flew over it. >> roger white ourselves on the ramp with him. shaun, are you all right? it's your dad. shaun? >> cathy white: it was the scariest moment in my life. i thought we lost him. >> simon: shaun suffered a fractured skull and broken bones and told his mother he wanted to call it quits. >> cathy white: i think, deep down, he was afraid. but i kept taking him to the y. >> simon: you kept taking him to the y? >> cathy white: yeah. >> simon: you didn't lock him up in a room? >> cathy white: god, no. >> shaun white: and i'm like, "i hate you," and i ended up learning a new trick because i stayed. and it just exploded from there. >> simon: the kid who says he was built for the board grew up to dominate two professional sports. far away from the snow, on the southern california coast, where he owns this house... i see there are some trophies up there. ...the spoils of victory were literally everywhere. >> shaun white: espy awards that are up at the top. this is x games summer. there's one right there. >> simon: