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BASIC INFOBirthdate May 12, 1968Birth place
San Diego, CaliforniaParent's names Frank
and Nancy HawkSibling's names
Lenore, Patricia SteveChildren's names
Riley, Spencer, Keegan and Kadence
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As a kid, Tony was intelligent,
high-strung, and hyperactive-combination
his mother once described as "challenging.
When he was nine, he received a skateboard from
his older brother That gift changed his life and
gave him an outlet for all of his energy.

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Tony Hawk was nine years old when his brothe
r changed his life by giving him a blue
fiberglass banana board. Before skateboarding
Hawk was a self-described nightmare.
Another time Tony struck out in baseball and was
so distraught that he hid in a
ravine and had to be "physically coaxed out" by
his father. "Instead of the terrible twos,
I was the terrible youth, he said. "I was a hyp
er, rail-thin geek on a sugar buzz. I think my
mom summed it up best when she said, 'challengi
ng.'"
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He was also pathologically determined.
When Tony was six his mom took him to an Olympic
size pool. "He decided that he had to swim the l
ength of it without a breath.
And then he was so frustrated when he didn't do
it," his mom, Nancy remembers. "He was so hard on
himself and expected himself to
do so many things.
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By twelve, Tony was sponsored by Dogtown
skateboards, by fourteen he was pro, and by age
sixteen Tony Hawk was the best skateboarder in
the world. In the ensuing 17 years, Hawk has
entered an estimated 103 pro contests. He won 73
of them, and placed second in 19. By far the best
record in skateboarding's history. (He even won a
contest after a redeye flight and only three
hours of sleep.)
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Skating died. Tony's income shrank drastically,
and suddenly his wife, a manicurist, was the
family breadwinner. The times were so lean that
Tony was allotted a daily Taco Bell allowance of
five bucks.The next few years ripped by in a
blur of financial uncertainty and personal
eruptions. He sold the Fallbrook house and the
Lexus and in 1992 Cindy gave birth to their son,
Riley. Tony refinanced his first house and
started a skateboard company, Birdhouse Projects,
with former Powell pro, Per Welinder.
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Two years later, he and Cindy divorced. Birdhouse
wasn't making money and Tony's future was
sketchy. If he couldn't make a living skating he
figured he could either edit video for other
companies or get a job "sitting behind a computer
doing some sort of programming or web design. I
thought skating was over for me." (Hawk is a
proud computer geek.)
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Today Recently, after slicing his shins open whil
e shooting a TV commercial (probably needed
stitches but didn't go to the doctor) he had to
rush back to pick Riley up from school. On March
26, 1999 Tony became the father of a second baby
boy, Spencer, who already has a weird attraction
to skateboards--he rides a mini-board around the
kitchen. Tony's third son, Keegan, was born July
18, 2001, and he has proven to be even more of a
lunatic daredevil than his father.
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Shortly after Keegan learned how to walk -- and
climb -- Tony walked into the kitchen to find his
youngest son standing on a chair with an ice pick
in one hand, a knife in the other and a small
lightbulb in his mouth. Though he and Erin
divorced in 2004, Tony remains a proud and
actively involved parent."It makes me proud
that I can switch from being a skater to a
responsible parent," he said. "But," he's quick
to add, "I don't feel as old as other parents."
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JiI continued n 2002, Tony launched the Boom Boom
HuckJam, a 30-city arena tour featuring the
world's best skateboarders, BMX bike riders and
Motocross lunatics performing choreographed
routines on a million-dollar ramp system, while
punk and hip hop music plays. The hugely
successful (and massively publicized) HuckJam
tour has sold out arenas across the country every
year since its inception and even been featured
as a Happy Meal at McDonalds.
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There was even a TV special featured as part of
the Super Bowl Sunday programming on Fox. The
tour was exclusively at Six Flags parks across
the country in 2006 and 2007. For 2008 BBHJ hits
the road to 24 cities across the country with
special guest Mike Relm.
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With the creation of the Tony Hawk Foundation,
Hawk also has made an effort to give something
back to the sport that has given him so much..
The Foundation has now been a part of 390 new
skateparks around the country.
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Designed to promote and help finance public
skateparks in low-income areas, the foundation
has distributed more than 2,300,000 to
non-profit groups building skateparks throughout
the U.S. from Homer, Alaska, to Needles,
California, to Greencastle, Indiana, to Glenwood,
Arkansas, to Livermore Falls, Maine
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Board of his choice
Elbow Pads
Helmet of his choice
Knee Pads
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Tony Hawks Proving Ground
Tony Hawks underground
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
Tony Hawks Underground 2 REMIX
Tony Hawks Underground 2
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Tony Hawk and wife Lhotse Merriam
Steve Hawk Bro of Tony
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"I'm pretty happy with the way things turned
out," Tony says. "I mean, I never thought that I
could make a career out of skateboarding."