Tony Hawk

Because...

i guess just through through skating you learn perseverance and you if there's one thing it teaches you it teaches you to get back up so yes i was hitting all these setbacks in terms of livelihood um and you know in a lot of ways how do i navigate all this but at the same time um i gotta skate i mean that like

We went on tour, let's just say 1993.

We went on a team tour.

We were driving a van, beat up Toyota van that was our delivery van.

There were six of us.

We're going to different skate shops throughout the US.

We would skate in a parking lot and they would set up some wooden ramps or curbs or whatever they had.

We would skate maybe for anywhere from 40 to 100 people.

And then we would beg them for $300 so that we could get a hotel room, gas and food to get to the next place.

And all that sounds like a struggle.

But at the same time, we got to skate.

We were having a blast.

We all stayed.

We all shared in one hotel room.

And we would go out skating at night, shooting video, street skating in these new towns.

I mean, it was all sort of, I guess it was sort of magical.

I don't know.

No, it'd be somewhere else.

But definitely I was, as far as I was concerned, I was living the dream.