Brief History
Roberto Rodriguez stopped a mugger with his abilities, and, in doing so, lead to his recruitment into the X-Statix. El Guapo was soon killed by a curse that was put on him by Henrietta Hunter, which caused his skateboard to impale him.
His power was apparently focussed through his skateboard, which moved at his mental command and sometimes acted out his subconscious thoughts, as when the skateboard beat him up for cheating on his girlfriend.