Tony Hawk
speaker
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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It's such a passion.
I mean, when I was growing up, I got very lucky that I lived near one of the last skate parks that existed at that time.
And it was never lost on me that I had a place of belonging because skateboarding was not cool in the early 80s.
It was probably the furthest thing from cool you could do.
I got hassled a lot at school.
In fact, I would hide my skateboard before school in the bushes near the bungalows, San Diego High.
And I would hide it.
And then when the bell rang, I would go retrieve my board.
Because if I walked through campus with it, I would get harassed.
They would steal it.
I'd get thrown in a trash can.
I mean, it was the 80s.
That's how it was.
You got picked on.
And so nowadays...
that whole attitude has shifted so far the other way, where, I mean, for the most part, like the cool kids in school skate, which is wild to me.
And so if I had anything to do with that shift of consciousness, I'm hugely proud of it.
But just the idea that skateboarding's part of the zeitgeist,
I mean, that's my best work then.
It's pretty impressive.
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