Hawk, Tony

Tony Hawk. The name brings back memories oflong school evenings spent with grazed knees and broken bones as I tried to impersonate the master on the ramps in the town. Tony was like a god to most of the kids at school. Bear in mind I left 10 years ago. This means Tony has been at the height of top skateboarding for about 15 years. He must now be in his late 30's at least as he was not young when he was first around. I saw him pull of that magic 3 turns at the X games on Channel 5 this year! Superb. The only man to pull it off and land on the board. I remember trying to get air like tony and failing! ...  Read the complete review

King of the board??? Maybe in the commercial sense, oui mon ami. He is a top skateboarder. EXTREME ....*ahem*....but what is all this crap?!?! The hawkster ?? 'I think if he beats the Hawkster hes gonna make it all the way'....it is quite quite sickening. Really, i respect Tone, hes goood. He looks nice in glasses. But....but....he isn't THAT DAMN good(okok he is good...but some other pros are there too....). He is skateboardings little commercial posterboy is what he is. I mean if we talk vert then people like Bob Burnquist, Colin McKay and Bucky Lasek are superior, or around that same level. But in the media they barely receive half the attention. ...  Read the complete review

why does everyone love Tony Hawk? because he is a proffessional skateboarder, he rides for birdhouse, and he has jis own game. WWHO CARES!! Tha doesn't make a QUALITY skater, a quality skater is someone who can pull off the maddest tricks, and be the best at whatever there preference is, vert or street. Sure, Tony Hawk is good at his prefered choice, but he is only REALLY big because his name is on the front of a GAME. That doesn't mean a thing to a lot of people, sure i can see their point. Some people ( myself included - i have been sjating for five years ) knew about Tony Hawks before his game, and i didn't and still don't like him, but that is just my ...  Read the complete review

*the Ollie* To do an ollie, you have to be smooth and gradual. you should try this at firat while you're not moving because you're gonna wipe out the first time if you are moving. First, put your back foot on the tail and place your front foot in the middle of the board between the trucks. Then, pop the tail of the board down with your back foot and immediatly jump into the air. Now put you foot in a position so the outside soul of you front foot is dragging up toward the nose of the board. Once the whole board is off the ground, gently push to tail of the board foward so it creates leverage and the back rises more. Then, position your two feet ...  Read the complete review

I love skateboarding and i have loved it for sometime now. i am trying to learn to ollie and i can nearly do it properly si all i need to do is get there!!! i love watching skateboarding on the television but all the extreme channel ever shows is snowboarding and i do like that as well but i wanna see a good half hour of skateboarding. so i got fed up with waiting for it to come on the television so i went out to HMV and i bought a copy of "Johnny goes down under" its a hardcore skateboarding video and now i am waiting for it to be delivered so i can watch it whenever i want!!! i have got the game Tony hawks skateboarding and i love playing it. it is ...  Read the complete review