Tony Hawk
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1,607 appearances
6 recordings
5 series
first heard Apr 2024
last heard 21 May
Tony Hawk’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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which you can hear about bands, comedians burning out because they're just traveling and they're taking every opportunity and they're trying to record new stuff.
And I definitely felt that, but at the same time, it was like, I got to strike while it's hot.
And it stayed hot for a lot longer than I ever imagined.
Like, I don't know.
Yeah, the hunger wasn't for more success.
The hunger was skating.
And I guess the irony of all that was that I was finally able to skate for myself and not just for fun, but really be creative because I didn't have to rely on it to make a living anymore.
which was strange because in those, in those earlier days, everything relied on my skating and my performances, everything.
And so I was skating even when I was hurt, I had to get back out there.
Um, and then when it wasn't the thing that I was doing to provide for a family, it became the most fun thing because I could just do it in any form and, and
really test new techniques and new limits.
I mean, those days, I'd say my years of sort of 2005 to 2012 were some of the most creative.
Yeah, and I don't think I appreciated it then because I was just always doing it.
It wasn't until I got older and realized I'm not capable of these things or they're far more dangerous than I ever acknowledged that I appreciate it.
So yeah, it's more in hindsight, but yeah.
It was just so much fun.
And even now it's still so much fun.
There is definitely a burden.
I guess if there's any burden that I was not chosen necessarily, but at some point I was supposed to represent skateboarding to a broader audience or that was sort of expected of me because I had the opportunities that other skaters didn't.
to go on to talk to bigger media outlets or whatever it is.
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