From the Archive: Tony Hawk: Mastery, Failure, and the Trick That Changed Skateboarding

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And so the everything you do is is amplified in terms of your speed, your height, and so it's it's almost two to three times your usual height. And one wrong move on that, you know, just one small adjustment the wrong way is tragic. And I just don't have the youth that I can survive those kind of falls. I get paid more money than I ever imagined to go ride my skateboard, which still seems absurd to me.

It's funny, it was a totally different industry then. So the way I turned pro was I had reached the top of the amateur ranks and I'm filling out the entry form to the next event and there's a checkbox that says amateur and there's a checkbox that says pro. And so I checked the pro box. And then that was it. And I said, Riley, I know you're good at those things, but you're

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