Tony Hawk (Skater Bio)

Name: Tony Hawk
Gender: Male
Hometown: San Diego, California
Date of Birth: May 12, 1968
Family: 3 children - Riley, Spencer & Keegan
Occupation: Launcher of the Boom Boom Huck Jam, Tony Hawk Foundation, Hawk clothing, Birdhouse, and featured in Tony Hawk video game series
Began Skating: 1977
First Sponsored: 1980
Turned Pro: 1982
Favored Discipline: Vert
Stance: Goofy



Tony Hawk Tricks (partial list):

Backside Varial
Shove-It Rock'n Roll
Fakie-to-fronside rock
Ollie-To-Indy
Fingerflip Backside Air
Varial Gay Twist
Gymnast Plant
Frontside 540-rodeo Flip
Lipslide Revert
Airwalk (vert)
Airwalk-To-Fakie
Madonna
Saran Wrap
Stale Fish
720
Backside Ollie-to-Tail
Indy 540
Frontside Gay Twist
Nose Grind
Backside Pop Shove-it
360 Frontside Rock n' Roll
Frontside Cab
Stale Fish 540
Eggplant-To-Fakie
1/2 Elguerial
Frontside Hurricane
Cab Shove-It
360 Varial-to-Fakie
Backside Rewind Grind
Ollie 540

Backside Ollie One-Foot
Varial 540
Frontside Blunt
Cab-To-Tail
360 Varial Disaster
Heelflip Varial Lien
Frontside Noseslide
Switch Indy Air
Switch Backside Ollie
540 Board Varial
Kickflip Mctwist
Cab Lipslide
Heelflip Varial Lien Revert
Heelflip Slob Air
Stale Fish 720
Varial 720
900
Frontside Stale Fish 540
Shove-it-to-Backside Smith
360 Varial Mctwist
Shove-it Fakie Feeble Grind
360 Shove-it Nose Grind
1/2 Cab Frontside Hurricane-to-Fakie
Shove-it-to-Fakie Frontside 5-0

Tony Hawk Skateboarding Career Highlights:

1982 - Joined the legendary Bones Brigade team
1989 - Featured in Gleaming the Cube movie starring Christian Slater
1999 - Activision releases Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, the first in a long line of
successful video games
1999 - X Games 4 - Tony Hawk lands the first 900
2003 - featured in the 300th episode of The Simpsons
2003 - wrote HAWK -- Occupation: skateboarder , a New York Times Best Seller
Life - Tony Hawk has entered about 103 skateboarding competitions. He has won 73,
and taken second in 19

Tony Hawk Personal History:
Tony Hawk was a troubled kid. He would push himself to do well in everything - in fact, to do better than he possibly could do, and then get angry with himself for failing. His parents had him psychologically evaluated, and discovered that he was "gifted". His older brother Steve gave him a skateboard, and Tony found something that he could focus on, and get good at. He would still push himself relentlessly, which helped propel him to be the world's most recognizable skateboarder today.
Tony Hawk Interesting Fact:
Tony Hawk had his first film debut in the 1989 movie, Gleaming the Cube - the first feature film to use skateboarding as a major theme. The movie stars Christian Slater, with Tony playing Christian Slater's friend, Buddy. Mike McGill does all of Slater's skateboarding, Rodney Mullen is seen skateboarding during the opening credits, and Stacey Peralta did all of the film's skateboarding directing.
Tony Hawk Quote:
From the Tony Hawk Website - "I'm pretty happy with the way things turned out. I mean, I never thought that I could make a career out of skateboarding."