Tony Hawk can still pull off a 900 at age 48

[~primetime~]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/28/sport/tony-hawk-900/index.html


Is anyone here in the loop on current vert skaters? I know there was an x-games recently, but can anyone tell me if there are current vert skaters that are pulling off the 900? I imagine others have done it now in addition to Hawk but I have no idea how common it is now.

[KNOW1EDGE]

Tony Hawk is a gawd.

Kids have been doing 1080s for a while now. Not sure if anyone has landed a 1260 yet but that's def next.

If you like skateboarding you should watch the show King of the Road on Vice, Tony Hawk is making a guest appearance next episode as well.

[sd3035]

Figure skaters can do 1440s without a ramp

figure skaters > Tony Hawk

[~primetime~]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbjzZHuGTng

damn, the first 1080 was done by a 12 year old.


it's just not fair, their center of gravity is so low to the ground...that's how it is with snow skiing too, I'll be going down a blue just trying to stay upright at a decent speed and some fckin 6 year old midget will come zipping around me doing all sorts of jumps and spins and shit. He's just so low to ground it hard for him to fall unlike me who is 6 foot and can easily tumble over just by leaning over too much.


That makes Hawk's 900 even more impressive...Hawk is 6'3", he doesn't have the advantage that kids with a low center of gravity have.

[sd3035]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbjzZHuGTng

damn, the first 1080 was done by a 12 year old.


it's just not fair, their center of gravity is so low to the ground...that's how it is with snow skiing too, I'll be going down a blue just trying to stay upright at a decent speed and some fckin 6 year old midget will come zipping around me doing all sorts of jumps and spins and shit. He's just so low to ground it hard for him to fall unlike me who is 6 foot and can easily tumble over just by leaning over too much.


That makes Hawk's 900 even more impressive...Hawk is 6'3", he doesn't have the advantage that kids with a low center of gravity have.


being short doesn't help much for spins but it certainly does for flips

[~primetime~]

being short doesn't help much for spins but it certainly does for flips
it helps a ton for staying upright in general...much easier for a tall person to fall over trying to control a moving object vs a short person

thats why when Hawk lands he is always squatting as low as possible

[DeuceWallaces]

Funny thing is how effortless it was today whereas he struggled mightily when he was much younger.

[DeuceWallaces]

it helps for staying upright in general...much easier for a tall person to fall over trying to control a moving object vs a short person

Yeah, there's a reason gymnasts and figure skaters are tiny and there's a minimum age in the Olympics. It helps with everything.

[sd3035]

Yeah, there's a reason gymnasts and figure skaters are tiny and there's a minimum age in the Olympics. It helps with everything.

It matters much more in artistic gymnastics than figure skating

[Levity]

when hawk was teaching himself the 900, it was a completely different time. i still remember when he first pulled it off too. but for skaters today, like young bball players, theres so many different aides/assitive devices that help these kids "advance their game" at an incredible pace

for young vert skaters, they have half pipes that are foam on one side. so kids arent as scared to come crashing down onto the vert when learning tricks. thus allowing them to pull of 900s at such a young age. and like op said, 1080's.... insane.

[DeuceWallaces]

It matters much more in artistic gymnastics than figure skating

Point remains. It still matters.

[dazzer87]

Hawk was not respected by alot of the old school pro skaters.

[sd3035]

Point remains. It still matters.

The American figure skater who won a gold medal at the 2010 Olympics was 6'2", the silver medalist was 5'10"

[~primetime~]

Hawk was not respected by alot of the old school pro skaters.
???

I was pretty big into skating in the 80s and 90s...I watched all the Bones Brigade vids, had a Thrasher subscription, etc, and I followed Hawk pretty closely. The way I remember it is that he was the single most respected skater in the biz.

[dazzer87]

???

I was pretty big into skating in the 80s and 90s...I watched all the Bones Brigade vids, had a Thrasher subscription, etc, and I followed Hawk pretty closely. The way I remember it is that he was the single most respected skater in the biz.
check out "Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi" and "All This Mayhem" and in these docs Hawk was not liked by others. I think it was that his skating style was "boring" "too many tricks and not enough style".......... I too grew up with Bones Brigade during the 80s and I was shocked to hear this too.

[~primetime~]

check out "Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi" and "All This Mayhem" and in these docs Hawk was not liked by others. I think it was that his skating style was "boring" "too many tricks and not enough style".......... I too grew up with Bones Brigade during the 80s and I was shocked to hear this too.
Well I don't doubt he had his share of hate, that isn't really something that would come up in many skate vids, could have easily been something most weren't aware of.

[Thorpesaurous]

???

I was pretty big into skating in the 80s and 90s...I watched all the Bones Brigade vids, had a Thrasher subscription, etc, and I followed Hawk pretty closely. The way I remember it is that he was the single most respected skater in the biz.

I was the same way. About fifth grade, through middle school, although middle school started a bit more biking, but I was always more fond of skating.

I watched all those vids too. But Dazzer is right, this current new wave of docs is really really well done. The Hosoi movie was great.

There definitely was a dislike for Hawk when he was starting out. He was fairly well off compared to a lot of the younger guys. His parents would drop him off at parks and stuff all over LA, while other guys were lucky to have a single functioning parent. And because of that, Hawk focused way more on vert stuff, and the local kids didn't seem to have as much respect for him because he lacked that background getting from place to place and having much street style.

I've gotten that vibe from more than one doc, even if it's just been in the background.

[sammichoffate]

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51FPQ1B3FGL.jpg

[~primetime~]

I was the same way. About fifth grade, through middle school, although middle school started a bit more biking, but I was always more fond of skating.

I watched all those vids too. But Dazzer is right, this current new wave of docs is really really well done. The Hosoi movie was great.

There definitely was a dislike for Hawk when he was starting out. He was fairly well off compared to a lot of the younger guys. His parents would drop him off at parks and stuff all over LA, while other guys were lucky to have a single functioning parent. And because of that, Hawk focused way more on vert stuff, and the local kids didn't seem to have as much respect for him because he lacked that background getting from place to place and having much street style.

I've gotten that vibe from more than one doc, even if it's just been in the background.
That makes sense, I haven't seen the Hosoi flick, maybe I can find it online or something, wouldn't mind watching.

[Thorpesaurous]

That makes sense, I haven't seen the Hosoi flick, maybe I can find it online or something, wouldn't mind watching.

It was on Netflix, it's probably gone though. There's a good one about Mark Gator Rogoski, who was sort of the dude when I got started skating, but seemed to be the last remnant of a bygone era as the board technology seemed to improve pretty quickly right after him. He was convicted of murder in the early 90s.

SPOILER:
All these 80s skater guys were way into heavy drugs!!!!!

Who woulda guessed?!?!

[~primetime~]

It was on Netflix, it's probably gone though. There's a good one about Mark Gator Rogoski, who was sort of the dude when I got started skating, but seemed to be the last remnant of a bygone era as the board technology seemed to improve pretty quickly right after him. He was convicted of murder in the early 90s.

SPOILER:
All these 80s skater guys were way into heavy drugs!!!!!

Who woulda guessed?!?!
Ha yes that's how I remember it, everyone had a Vision Gator board until suddenly there was a plethora of new boards.

I had a Gator board, and a Hippy-Stick and a Psycho Stick among others

can't even remember some of the decks I had, I went through a lot after those Vision decks

[~primetime~]

I had read an article about Jay Adams who recently died...he was an OLD-OLD-OLD school skater, before my time...Dogtown stuff

anyway, apparently he murdered a gay man in a hate crime...

[Thorpesaurous]

I had read an article about Jay Adams who recently died...he was an OLD-OLD-OLD school skater, before my time...Dogtown stuff

anyway, apparently he murdered a gay man in a hate crime...

The Dogtown documentary was great, and obviously Jay Adams was nuts. But yeah, those guys were before my time too. Those are like the first guys getting air. They came out of a much different background as surfers though.


I was just googling boards I remember having.

I remember having a Roskopp Eyeball board. I was a huge fan of his art prior to that, each edition had a monster coming further out of a bullseye,
then the face, which I had, and then the eye, which I loved. Those were the first boards I bought after the Vision Gator. I had a few Doug Smith boards. I remember buying a mini, then growing like 6 inches that summer and not fitting on it anymore. I had a Jesse Grosso deck with the sea god guy on it.

I definitely preferred Santa Cruz to Powell and Perelta. I remember at the time feeling like they were harder and lighter, neither of which I'm sure was true. In retrospect I just preferred the stained deck to the PnP painted decks, and the more out there are than Powell's sort of set fit icons (I remember the Mike McGill skull, and the Tony Hawk skull both seeming to be the same size and layout). I do remember loving the Lance Mountain stuff though.

[~primetime~]

oh man I had a Roskopp board, the huge face...I forgot all about that, bringing back memories.


I had a Shmitt Stick too

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/84/40/5c/84405c0a0f4cc39f01aae7215f33cdd0.jpg


I had another Santa Cruz board that I loved but I can't quite put my finger on what it was, been searching the web for it.

[Lakers Legend#32]

48 and he's still ridding skateboards? Dude needs to seriously grow up.

[Thorpesaurous]

oh man I had a Roskopp board, the huge face...I forgot all about that, bringing back memories.


I had a Shmitt Stick too

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/84/40/5c/84405c0a0f4cc39f01aae7215f33cdd0.jpg


I had another Santa Cruz board that I loved but I can't quite put my finger on what it was, been searching the web for it.


Yeah, this is definitely a google rabbit hole you can fall into. I remember the Psycho Stick after seeing it, that was like the last Vision board trying to hold on after the smaller boutique shops had started to open. And there was a Mark Gonzales board I recall after seeing it.


I stumbled upon a Natas Kaupus board too while I was futzing around, and that was something I completely forgot about. I loved those boards but never got one. My buddy had one. Rode great.

I was a weird G&S truck guy instead of the independents everyone loved. And I know I rode slimeball and big ball wheels, but I remember liking another wheel better later on. I just can't remember the name.

[Thorpesaurous]

http://skateandannoy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/natas-projection.jpg

[Thorpesaurous]

The Vision decks.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/4c/5d/5c/4c5d5c0dc256232763930e567388b5de.jpg

[Thorpesaurous]

oh man I had a Roskopp board, the huge face...I forgot all about that, bringing back memories.


I had a Shmitt Stick too

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/84/40/5c/84405c0a0f4cc39f01aae7215f33cdd0.jpg


I had another Santa Cruz board that I loved but I can't quite put my finger on what it was, been searching the web for it.

Was it this Corey O'Brien deck? Because people loved this thing.

http://sublime99.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/skate-art-jim-phillips-213.jpg

[~primetime~]

I figured it out, it was the Jeff Grosso...

http://www.skatetilldeath.com/660-thickbox_default/skateboard-deck-santa-cruz-jeff-grosso-demon-.jpg

that took me a while to find


I recognize all the decks you are posting though



It can be so much fun to use the internet to unlock past childhood memories...love it when that happens

[Thorpesaurous]

I just spotted the Grosso in this pic and was gonna guess that. This is a good pic.

Powell n' Peralta on the top, and Santa Cruz on the bottom. The Santa Cruz stuff had more unique shape design too.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/a2/83/d5/a283d5d13ebd750270d86cdbadc6ebfd.jpg

[~primetime~]

Yeah I didn't own any of the PP decks...but I do remember friends having those

I can remember wanting that exact Natas board because I liked him as a skater.


what's crazy is that I was shoe shopping the other day and the high top vans are popular again...the exact ones I owned as kid

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/b7/6a/39/b76a39e98944ec09aa621411efa95c2d.jpg

I probably went through 5-6 pairs of these...all different colors

[~primetime~]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/c4/fc/9f/c4fc9fde13992e29db758d182774df62.jpg


they always end up looking like this after a month or two

[Thorpesaurous]

I see people rocking Thrasher t shirts all the time lately. They're probably coming from Target.

[Nick Young]

Who cares if people wear skate clothes when they aren't skaters. Many of you wear basketball shirts-yet are absolutely shit when it comes to playing basketball.


POSEURS DOE:hammerhead: :hammerhead: :hammerhead:

Let people wear what they want, whiners.

[Thorpesaurous]

Who cares if people wear skate clothes when they aren't skaters. Many of you wear basketball shirts-yet are absolutely shit when it comes to playing basketball.


POSEURS DOE:hammerhead: :hammerhead: :hammerhead:

Let people wear what they want, whiners.

That wasn't my point. I'm just saying I haven't seen the Thrasher Logo in like twenty five years. Now all of a sudden it's popping up again. I'm guessing it's coming from Target, because they seem to have cornered the market on that nostalgic T Shirt scene.

I would totally be wearing a Thrasher shirt if I bumped into one.