For real. Dude could skate but his parents literally built him a skatepark in his back yard. He had so much advantage and treated it like a real sport and was just above the heshers who were doing it between fighting cops and playing in punk bands. Fuck Tony Hawk
Idk, want skateboarding “commercialized” pretty early on. The first Tony Hawk game came out in 99. Pretty sure there had already been a number of skate boarding themed movies and maybe even a video game or two before that. Skateboarding was invented in California around the mid 60s, and the late 70s and 80s had a pretty be obsession with “California Culture” and stuffed sanitized versions of everything cali into media. I remember seeing skateboarding in lots of movies Pre-99, and it was usually just presented as something “the teens do”.
Is it really a shock that a guy involved in the commercialization of what was a niche subculture would do this?
For real. Dude could skate but his parents literally built him a skatepark in his back yard. He had so much advantage and treated it like a real sport and was just above the heshers who were doing it between fighting cops and playing in punk bands. Fuck Tony Hawk
Idk, want skateboarding “commercialized” pretty early on. The first Tony Hawk game came out in 99. Pretty sure there had already been a number of skate boarding themed movies and maybe even a video game or two before that. Skateboarding was invented in California around the mid 60s, and the late 70s and 80s had a pretty be obsession with “California Culture” and stuffed sanitized versions of everything cali into media. I remember seeing skateboarding in lots of movies Pre-99, and it was usually just presented as something “the teens do”.