LOS ANGELES  In a professional skateboarding career that has spanned nearly 20 years, Danny Way has performed many first feats, like launching over the Great Wall of China in 2005 by using a mega ramp, an outsize creation he brought to the X Games a year earlier to create the sport’s newest and most thrilling spectacle.

Although he will be part of the broadcasting crew at the Staples Center when the X Games begin Thursday, providing commentary on his creation, the skateboard Big Air competition, Way wants to make one thing clear about his career: he is not done.

“I’m not taking the position at X Games because I’m trying to retire or slow,” said Way, 35, who in November set a Guinness world speed record on a skateboard when he was towed by a car at 74.5 miles per hour on a lonely stretch of blacktop in the California desert.

“My whole motivation with creating this event was getting it to a point where it could stand on its own, without me having to be out there putting the show on every time,” he said about Big Air, an event he has won three times.