Tony Hawk

• Name: Tony Hawk
• Gender: Male
• Hometown: San Diego, California
• Date of Birth: May 12, 1968
• Family: 3 children - Riley, Spencer & Keegan
• Occupation: Launcher of the Boom Boom Huck Jam, Tony Hawk Foundation, Hawk clothing, Birdhouse, and featured in Tony Hawk video game series
• Began Skating: 1977
• First Sponsored: 1980
• Turned Pro: 1982
• Favored Discipline: Vert
• Stance: Goofy
• Tony Hawk is retired from competing

Tony Hawk Skateboarding Tricks Invented (partial list):

• Backside Varial
• Shove-It Rock'n Roll
• Fakie-to-fronside rock
• Ollie-To-Indy
• Fingerflip Backside Air
• Varial Gay Twist
• Gymnast Plant
• Frontside 540-rodeo Flip
• Lipslide Revert
• Airwalk (vert)
• Airwalk-To-Fakie
• Madonna
• Saran Wrap
• Stale Fish
• 720
• Backside Ollie-to-Tail
• Indy 540
• Frontside Gay Twist
• Nose Grind
• Backside Pop Shove-it
• 360 Frontside Rock n' Roll
• Frontside Cab
• Stale Fish 540
• Eggplant-To-Fakie
• 1/2 Elguerial
• Frontside Hurricane
• Cab Shove-It
• 360 Varial-to-Fakie
• Backside Rewind Grind
• Ollie 540

Backside Ollie One-Foot

Varial 540

Frontside Blunt

Cab-To-Tail

360 Varial Disaster

Heelflip Varial Lien

Frontside Noseslide

Switch Indy Air

Switch Backside Ollie

540 Board Varial

Kickflip Mctwist

Cab Lipslide

Heelflip Varial Lien Revert

Heelflip Slob Air

Stale Fish 720

Varial 720

900

Frontside Stale Fish 540

Shove-it-to-Backside Smith

360 Varial Mctwist

Shove-it Fakie Feeble Grind

360 Shove-it Nose Grind

1/2 Cab Frontside Hurricane-to-Fakie

Shove-it-to-Fakie Frontside 5-0

Tony Hawk Skateboarding Career Highlights:

1982 - Joined the legendary Bones Brigade team
1989 - Featured in Gleaming the Cube movie starring Christian Slater
1999 - Activision releases Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, the first in a long line of successful video games
1999 - X Games 4 - Tony Hawk lands the first 900
2003 - featured in the 300th episode of The Simpsons
2003 - wrote HAWK -- Occupation: skateboarder , a New York Times Best Seller
Life - Tony Hawk has entered about 103 skateboarding competitions. He has won 73, and taken second in 19