Replying to McConkey's Influence?????

Hey, I'd like to hear back from the 18-and-younger crowd on this one:

What do you know about Shane McConkey as a skier?
What does he mean to you?
What does he stand for?
Did his skiing inspire you?

The reason I ask this is because McConkey's impact on the newschool/freeski movement is ridiculously important; I'm just trying to figure out if the younger crowd knows this or not.

I'm guessing that the younger generation really only knows him as a skier who BASE jumps and does funny shit like Saucer Boy. I am guessing that the younger crowd doesn't realize how important a figure he is when it came to fat ski innovation, big-mountain riding, inverts and switch flips, and helping pave the way, in a business sense, to be a paid, professional freeskier - stuff that we take for granted now, but was barely existent 12 years ago, and I mean barely.

By the way, if you don't think he had much impact on your skiing, please feel free to say that. I'm not trying to chastise you - I'm just trying to figure out what the younger generation knows about him.