Tony Hawk

And I got up pretty quick.

And that was the moment that I knew I could do it.

because i thought oh i can i'll get another chance at it and i'm gonna shift my weight to my back foot as i spin that's the key and i did that and then when i landed i fell backwards and it was like i just gotta split the difference and then i made the next one where does that rank in terms of the best individual feelings you've ever had in any moment of doing this

That was definitely the best... That was my best competitive performance.

And it was definitely one of the heights of...

progression and learning tricks that I could ever experience.

I mean, I never expected it to be in front of an audience like that.

When I first tried it to make it in 1996, I was literally on a ramp in a warehouse by myself with my friend shooting video on a Hi8 camera.

And then fast forward to three years later and it's live on ESPN.

Like it was just absurd.

I mean, there's definitely a synchronicity that I tried to do it so many times for a video or just for myself.

And I just came up short and it had to be that time.

I try not to because it makes you feel so old.

I don't know.

I mean, legacy, it's such a lofty word too.

I hope my legacy is someone that brought more attention to skateboarding, represented it well, and provided more places to do it.

That's the best I can hope for.

I mean, that's definitely my proudest work.

Also, the idea that now that skateboarding is so prolific,

that i'm drawing more attention to this discipline of skateboarding which is half vertical half pipe skating because that's still one that i think is underappreciated it was almost gone from the x games um when they brought it back i'm campaigning for it to be in the olympics uh it won't be in la because it has to go through a different process but i feel like it is