It's crazy to think that the generation which joined skateboarding inspired by tony's videogames is now old and a thing of the past. The games were so good and captured the feeling of skating at such level it pushed people to actually skate, A LOT of people. What i love of skaters peculiar mentality is that if they're hyped nothing discourages them, like you see a completely unreaĺistic level of skating in a vg and you still buy a board and be lke 'imma do that fkn thing, no way i'm not gonna do it'🤘🔥😂
As much as Tony has been accused of being a sell-out or a shill for the corpos, the truth is it has been a necessary evil for the skateboarding community to be far better known and to survive. Jamie Thomas stated in the THPS documentary that he was initially hesitant to join the game project Tony was in, believing it was akin to being in hock with the corpos, but he eventually warmed up to the idea of lending their likenesses as it helped spread awareness of the sport to a wider audience. Many Happy Returns of the day, Tony!
If it hadn’t been for all of them paving the way, we wouldn’t have all the skateparks everywhere we had today. The vast majority of them have come from public funding, which requires representatives and leaders from the skateboarding community to converse with our elected representatives. And the politicians would have never given any one of us the time of day if it hadn’t been for the mainstreaming and increase of public acceptance of skating as a legitimate sport and art form. We have the legends like Tony and Rodney to thank for that. And also all the guys that put time and money into running shops and putting on contests, which ultimately led to the X Games, and then it all slowly but surely blew up from there.
Tony deserves way more respect. If it weren’t for him, many of us wouldn’t be skateboarding right now. He literally influenced multiple generations post mid 90s with the video games alone. Not even counting the people he influenced in the late 80s
Tony Hawk influence skateboarding in general. People that didn’t know nothing about skateboarding, but they would know who the heck Tony Hawk was that’s true facts he is the legend and at this point, I would call him one of the forefathers of skateboarding because he really pushed the sport into the future because it was on its way out as a dying sport.
I feel like he should be as famous as Tony Hawk is to non skateboarders. Everybody remembers who did the first 900 but nobody remembers the guy that invented Ollie’s and kick flips
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THAT is the ultimate compliment... To have Rodney Mullen be influenced by and look up to you...
God Rodney speaks...I listen.
Rodney bless.
his voice is oddly calming
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Yeah, it allows you to hear every word and take in the meaning.
legend 🤙🏼 🍺 🎯
I'm always surprised how eloquent this dude is
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He's skateboardings' Nikola Tesla, with a Hemingway twist.
I really appreciate what Tony and Rodney both have done for skateboarding 🙏🏻
And the nine club guys are starting to have that affect too. They love skateboarding to their core and try to support anyone they can
It's crazy to think that the generation which joined skateboarding inspired by tony's videogames is now old and a thing of the past. The games were so good and captured the feeling of skating at such level it pushed people to actually skate, A LOT of people. What i love of skaters peculiar mentality is that if they're hyped nothing discourages them, like you see a completely unreaĺistic level of skating in a vg and you still buy a board and be lke 'imma do that fkn thing, no way i'm not gonna do it'🤘🔥😂
As much as Tony has been accused of being a sell-out or a shill for the corpos, the truth is it has been a necessary evil for the skateboarding community to be far better known and to survive.
Jamie Thomas stated in the THPS documentary that he was initially hesitant to join the game project Tony was in, believing it was akin to being in hock with the corpos, but he eventually warmed up to the idea of lending their likenesses as it helped spread awareness of the sport to a wider audience.
Many Happy Returns of the day, Tony!
If it hadn’t been for all of them paving the way, we wouldn’t have all the skateparks everywhere we had today. The vast majority of them have come from public funding, which requires representatives and leaders from the skateboarding community to converse with our elected representatives. And the politicians would have never given any one of us the time of day if it hadn’t been for the mainstreaming and increase of public acceptance of skating as a legitimate sport and art form. We have the legends like Tony and Rodney to thank for that. And also all the guys that put time and money into running shops and putting on contests, which ultimately led to the X Games, and then it all slowly but surely blew up from there.
Tony deserves way more respect. If it weren’t for him, many of us wouldn’t be skateboarding right now. He literally influenced multiple generations post mid 90s with the video games alone. Not even counting the people he influenced in the late 80s
Respekt get straight to Rodney.. No hate tony
GOAT !
I'm some ways ahead but in other ways Rodney you were lightyears into another stratosphere ❤
The Alan watts of skateboarding. Some how everything he says I hear dramatic inspirational music behind haha. 😂
Tony Hawk influence skateboarding in general. People that didn’t know nothing about skateboarding, but they would know who the heck Tony Hawk was that’s true facts he is the legend and at this point, I would call him one of the forefathers of skateboarding because he really pushed the sport into the future because it was on its way out as a dying sport.
Happy birthday 🎂🎁🎉🎈🎊
He was the video game dude
Albert Grindstein always speaks eloquently
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I feel like he should be as famous as Tony Hawk is to non skateboarders. Everybody remembers who did the first 900 but nobody remembers the guy that invented Ollie’s and kick flips
Even the king is humble
Please make or remake or remaster more tony hawk's pro skater games. 🍀🙏🏽
That's interesting
It was because Tony wore pads before it was a thing. Most skater were too tough Also his parents ran the contests.
lol definitely NOT ahead of Mullen. Dude invented a bunch of ramp tricks Mullen invented street skateboarding. One is cool and one is gay just saying
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