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His wife Nancy Elizabeth Hawk, is a part-time business teacher.

Hawk was born in San Diego, California, to a retired U.S. He has also been involved in various philanthropic activities including his own Tony Hawk Foundation which helps build skateparks in underprivileged areas, and also including collaborations with other athletes in the charity Athletes for Hope. Throughout his career, Hawk has made numerous appearances in films and other media, as well as his own series of video games. In 2002, he created the Boom Boom HuckJam, an extreme sports exhibition and tour which launched in Las Vegas. In 1999, he became the first skater to land a 900. His parents supported his skateboarding because it served as an outlet for his excessive energy, and as Hawk's skills developed, he became a professional skateboarder at age fourteen. Raised in San Diego, California, Hawk was described as being "hyperactive" as a child. He is widely considered one of the most successful and influential pioneers of modern vertical skateboarding. Hawk gained significant fame for completing the first 900 as well as his licensed video game titles distributed by Activision. But on Friday night at X Games, vert once again reigned supreme.This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia ( view authors).Īnthony Frank "Tony" Hawk (born May 12, 1968), nicknamed "The Birdman" is an American retired professional skateboarder and actor. In a week’s time, the world will be closely watching park and street skating debut on sport’s biggest stage at the Olympics, represented by today’s big-name stars like Nyjah Huston, Sky Brown and Leticia Bufoni. On Wednesday, Hawk wrote in an Instagram post, “As park (and street) skating takes center stage in the upcoming Tokyo games, I have been working feverishly behind the scenes to bring vert back into the fold of big skate events. It’s no secret that in the last decade, vert has taken a back seat as street and park skating, which will debut in the Tokyo Olympics later this month, have rapidly developed around the world. Indeed, while it’s fun to believe Hawk, who was on hand as an observer during the regular vert contest earlier in the day, was so overcome with the urge to shred that he entered Vert Best Trick at the last minute, it’s also plausible Hawk’s guest star appearance could be a carefully considered move to inject some hype into vert skating again. “There’s a serious lack of vert events nowadays and I gotta support it as best I can. “If you build it, I will come,” Hawk said. Shazamm / ESPNĪs for Hawk coming out of retirement to skate in Friday’s contest, Craig McMorris asked Hawk on the broadcast, “Why today?” landing of a 900 in Skateboard Vert during X Games V. San Francisco, CA - June 27, 1999: Tony Hawk celebrates after completing the first ever successful.