He also has loads of stories in the bank from a wild (and wildly successful) career. He helped create Tony Hawk Pro Skater-one of the most popular and fun sports video games of all time-that earned skating legions of new fans.Īt nearly 50, Hawk is still a competitive skater and has become an ambassador for the sport with a foundation that helps build skate parks. He was, and is, an immensely talented skater but he also helped define the moment when skateboarding hit the mainstream in the late '90s. Tony Hawk sort of is skateboarding in a similar way to how Tiger Woods defines golf for a lot of people. Hawk will turn 50 on Saturday and is celebrating with a video that shows him re-landing 50 of the tricks he helped innovate. At 48, he landed a 900-the trick he was famously the first to land in an X Games moment that shot him to an entirely different level of fame. Three years ago he skated the first-ever spiral loop. And that's pretty remarkable, considering just how badass Tony Hawk things are. At nearly 50 years old, Tony Hawk is still doing Tony Hawk things.
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