Tony Hawk

Just gradually figuring it out and realizing that this is what will be expected of me, especially with video games.

I mean, I was going on press tours.

Like I was going to Australia for a week.

I was going to the UK all over Europe and being interviewed endlessly.

And I think I just got used to that experience.

How long were you bad at it or shy or uncomfortable?

Did you feel shy and uncomfortable?

Oh, yeah.

I mean, you know, all that stuff's documented.

But if you look at interviews, me in the 80s, like I was not good.

No, I mean, but also I was very self-deprecating.

I think there's one interview where I said, you know, who's who's your main competition today?

And I say, I think I'm gonna have a hard time beating anyone that entered this contest.

You weren't there to talk about it.

But also we had no we had no guidance.

I mean, we had no no one to look up to that had already made these things happen and was good at it.

It was like, I don't know.

What do you want me to say?

I suppose.

I mean, but I was just really young too.