Tony Hawk
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Podcast Appearances
That's when I'm in my early 30s.
And I was riding that wave and it felt kind of surreal, but also I was so fixated on the actual skating that I kind of lost sight of relationships, like personal relationships, truly.
Because suddenly it was like all this, all my life that I've devoted to the skating is suddenly appreciated.
on a scale that I never would have imagined.
Um, it's just a lack of intimacy and... Emotional?
Emotional, yeah.
And then I don't want to blame, I'm not going to blame my upbringing, but that was the example that I was, that I saw growing up.
So I didn't really have any other example to emulate.
But regardless, like I could have, you know, I could have paused and maybe tried to figure all that out.
But I was on this rocket ship of success and I chased that.
And then at some point,
The fame aspect of it.
I never got into skateboarding to be rich or famous.
You couldn't be rich or famous skateboarding when I was a kid.
Right.
No one was.
Yeah.
Right?
So when it suddenly came, it was like, oh, this is what I'm supposed to do now.
I'm supposed to do the famous things.