The name Wicks is synonymous with whip cracking, but Daniel has more tricks up his sleeve.
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The 28-year-old is also a dab hand at billy boiling and motorcross riding.
In the past two months, the Gunnedah man clocked the fastest time in the 39th Roy Jaeger and Tony Bowles Memorial Billy Boiling Championship of NSW, and travelled to America to compete in flat-track racing.
Queensland dirt track rider Max Whale lent him a 2018 Kawaski motorcross bike so he could he compete in the half-mile race at Ashland and short track, TT and half-mile races at Harpster. He finished up fourth overall.
Daniel showed he was a man of many talents when he surprised and delighted the crowds with whip cracking displays at the races.
It was his second year visiting the states with Australian dirt track champion Tom Drane, who asked him along in 2018 to help out at competitions.
Daniel was back on the bike in mid-August, competing in the Australian Senior Track Championship in Mildura, and placed third in the MX open. Gunnedah's Tom Donnelly and Jordan Dall also competed.
"It's pretty good to get out there with the best dirt trackers in Australia," Daniel said.
The local said he started racing as a junior then had a break for four or five years before getting back into it in 2016.
When NVI asked which he preferred - racing or whip cracking - he said he leaned towards motorcross because it "really gets the adrenaline going".
But no matter how he ranks his hobbies, no one can dispute that Daniel is best known for his whip cracking prowess.
Steve said at the age of six, Gunnedah councillor Steve Smith asked Daniel to do a whip cracking display as part of the town's Australia Day celebrations and just three years later, he performed in the opening ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.
Over the years, he has gone on to demonstrate his skills locally and nationally at weddings, birthday parties, rodeos and festivals - to name a few - and internationally in England, China, Canada and France.
Steve says Daniel is a born "showman", but despite the countless accolades, Daniel sees his "hobbies" as a way to preserve Australia's heritage and simply says it "keeps you going".
