his shadow is defying the laws of shadowing!! or it just lost it's stick. cool pic! I like the skates...and the hockey stick. Amd he doesn't look crazy.....well completely crazy he looks mostly insane tho....

Although I didn't do the coloring, I'll defend it. Technically it doesn't defy them. As you should know, light isn't omni-directional, it comes from many directions and bounces off things. Thus, if you have something thin and far away from the ground, you'll have diffused light from different directions easily getting around the stick and thus no shadow forms. As you can see the body's shadow is blurry, a product of the diffusion. If the hand is that faint and shadow so blurred, then the stick won't be visible at all.
The real questoin would be why the shadow is behind him, if the sun is also.

that's supposed to be the sun? reminds me more of a japanese flag or something...

well ya, the japanese rising sun flag, surprise surprise, has the sun on it.

Oh my God, that's awesome. It really makes me want to grab a stick and skates, go out and ride around while yelling gutsy japanese phrases and "ORAORAORAORA!". That's how great it is.