Tony Hawk

Anthony Frank " Tony" Hawk was born on May 12th, 1968, with Carlsbad in California. He is regarded as one of best the skaters of all times. It is a pioneer of the board with casters known as " verticale". Among several nicknames which it carries, " the man oiseau" (Hawk means French Faucon) is that which corresponds to him best.

Tony Hawk became professional Planche with casters at the 11 years age (a record). At its 14 years Stacy Peralta, thanks to the bones brigade, one of the three Z-Servant boys leaves the shade this wonder. It passed its schooling to Torrey Pines High School close to Del Mar to San Diego.

Initially under the mixed liability company of Powell Peralta, it is made known by gaining many competitions of street and of green It in particular gained celebrates it competition of the X-Ranges. In 1999 it takes part in the " Jam session" , 20 minutes session when all the skateboarders try to carry out the most impressive figure. It is at the time of this " Jam Session" that it carries out a " 900" , carried out for the first time of the history. A " 900" consist of a rotation of 2 turns and half in the air (360 + 360 + 180). This exploit definitively propelled Tony Hawk to the most popular row of skater. Today, two only skateboarders reiterated such an exploit: Sandro Diaz and Gianni Zattoni are only the skateboarders which made a success of this figure (after Tony Hawk) by carrying out it in a " Run" (45 seconds to carry out the maximum of figures) it also jumped over the great wall of China.

Tony Hawk invented about fifty figures, in slope primarily, of which the Madonna or the stalefish.

Following his exploit of 1999, Tony Hawk sold his name with a series of video games of skateboard published by Activision.

Video games

Tony Hawk with founded the mark “Birdhouse” (of with its nickname “the man-bird”) for which it wrinkles since, as well as the mark Hawk (drawn from its name). The mark Hawk does not belong to Tony but there remains the majority shareholder of this one. It is also the first millionaire of the industry of the skateboard to exclusively constitute this first going up thanks to the sale of boards and derivative products bearing its name.

Tony Hawk left the medium the competition but skate always at the time of demonstrations and devotes his time to the design of video games, the construction of skateparks through the United States and to the organization of events.

Career of actor

Tony Hawk is also a movie actor and series of television. he appears in Police Academy 4. With the weapons citizens and in New the. He doubled itself in the animated series Simpson at the time of the 300e episode. He also appears in one of the films Pirates of the Caribbean. He makes also to the role of the victim in an episode of the series the Experts: Miami . One sees it carrying out several of his figures on a slope. One also sees it in film on the Z-Servant boys: Lords of Dogtown as an astronaut. He also played the part of a police officer in Haggard , a film carried out by his compatriot skater and friend, Bam Margera.

External bonds

Official site of Tony Hawk
Compilation of videos drawn from the play éponyme

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