Tony Hawk

It's factual.

We didn't have big ramps to go real high, but I would try it.

And because it requires you being blind to your landing twice, there was no way of spotting it.

And so you had to go literally on blind faith that it's going to work and that if you let go and you stand up, you're in the right place.

When I finally got the courage to try to land one in 1996, I fell forward and broke my rib.

I forgot that there was another injury.

You forgot.

I bypassed my ribs.

So I broke my rib.

and kind of put it on the shelf because 1996, I'm not really making a living skateboarding.

I want to do this because it's been burned into my psyche that I want to get it done.

I want to figure it out.

But at that point in my life,

I mean, it wasn't that I was trying to get accolades for it, but it started to become risk versus reward.

Like I remember the day I broke my rib, I had been trying it at this ramp and because I had to sort of lay there and regroup and process that, I was late to pick up my son at preschool.

And for parents, when your kid's the last one at preschool, that sucks.

And the priest and the teachers just kind of like... So there was some sort of sign there.

It was like, what are you doing?

Like, why are you risking yourself for this?

You have someone that relies on you and now you're late to pick them up because you're trying some dumb skateboard trick that can be tragic.