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Hawk by Tony Hawk6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Also, in truth, I was only really into watching vert ramp competitions. My knowledge of skating was mostly just dudes on the X Games. I was a newly-minted teenager who had gotten on board but couldn’t do jack shit. ![]() I had been intro skating for a couple of years by the 1999 X Games. Getting that kind of air, and doing that number of spins, is truly crazy. You have to spin so fast, maintain your equilibrium, get a sense of when you’re landing, hope you’ve spun enough to land properly, and then skate away down the ramp. In essence, the 900 is a 900-degree revolution while you are on your board. You likely know what a 900 is, but just in case you don’t it’s simple enough to explain but nearly impossible to land. We will forever be celebrating Tony Hawk’s iconic, instantly indelible moment. It still popped up on social media over the weekend. Even though this is the 21st anniversary, it still feels significant. It is probably my earliest memory related to skateboarding. On June 27, 1999, in a time of Y2K paranoia and genies in a bottle that needed to be rubbed the right way, Tony Hawk landed a 900. Over the weekend, the anniversary of perhaps the biggest moment in skateboarding happened. ![]()
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