Tony Hawk: A Life in Skateboarding

Review: Tony Hawk: A Life in Skateboarding is an amazing tale of how a small kid from California became one of the biggest legends around. Tony Hawk was born native to San Diego. He was the youngest of three other siblings, all in their late teens and early twenties. Tony was a very small child but very smart, but this would also lead to him having a rough time with people making fun of him. It carried on into when he first started skateboarding. Tony was too small to get the momentum he needed so he had to try other methods that others looked at as bizarre. As the years went on, that scrawny little kid from San Diego was becoming a child star. Tony began winning contest after contest all while creating new tricks and styles for vert skating. As he got older, Tony had developed fame, fortune and one of the biggest bags of skateboard tricks ever seen. His two most renowned tricks ever were the McTwist variants and, of course, the 900, the move he pulled at the 1999 X-Games that made him a household name.
I recommend this book to more than just skateboard fans. I recommend this to anyone that is seeking as story of inspiration, challenges, and perseverance. I was greatly inspired and motivated by this story of how a nerdy kid from California grabbed the bull by the horns and became possibly the biggest skating legends of all time. He worked through little to no support, the best and worst times of skating, major criticism, the death of his father, divorce and three kids and still made it to the top of the mountain. This is a very motivational story and I highly recommend it.

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