@@lusio7182 not true at all. 100 percent false. He is a freestyle and later a street God but people were shredding bowls and halfpipes well before he invented his kickflip. Again, he didnt Do Shit for vert skating.
@@jeremyrafuse5330 for many years of Tony's career, people stopped caring about vert. with the start of X Games and then his 900, vert skating heated up again. he stuck it out through some rough years in the early 90's.
Man i miss the good days I remember going to Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson New Jersey to watch the boom boom Hawk Jam what a show he puts on🤘🤙‼️
it's totally wild to think about how Tony was already 29, 30 years old when he REALLY turned it up on our culture. _Tony Hawk's Pro Skater_ would've come out when he was already 30 years old. it's never too late, people. you can always do exceptional things as long as you're still pulling air.
Woah woah woah i get social distancing and i still dont have a phone despite me being 14 but if smart phones didnt exist this prolly would not have many veiws
You're joking, right? Look at the people on the sideline and then the height of the transition. If you were standing atop it looking down, you'd change your opinion real fast.
It’s cool watching Tony strut his stuff in these 90s X-Games, considering how he was struggling to make a living just a few years earlier. The 80s skate bubble had popped and the advent of street skating lead to vert becoming a lot less popular. The X-Games definitely saved Tony’s career when you really think about it.
thanks for the upload :) there used to be a feature on tony on eurosport back in the day. probably xgames 97/98, not sure. but he was skating a pretty light ramp mostly in slow mo. do you by any chance have that too? ^^
Damn his competitor number is pinned onto the back of his shirt. Imagine falling 20 feet from the air off a vert ramp and having the pins puncture through your skin, ugh.
@@fresnosean379 I don't believe that's the case, he considered his competition land the greatest day of his life, and he didn't land it for the competition, in fact the contest was over by that point, he did it for the audience and himself, and all sources say that 900 was the first ever landed 900.
If fact he does, at 7:16! He also invented the Kickflip McTwist in 1995. The "pure" one instead of a half flip varial. But clearly that was his, only, weak point. He wasn't as consistent with flips as the younger generation. Otherwise he probably would have competed for another five years after 1999, if it wasn't for the kickflip-pressure.
Lets see. Recorded from tv to VHS in 1997. 2 decades later copied from VHS to dvd. Ripped from dvd to VOD computer file. Coverted from VOD file to MP4 file. Uploaded to UA-cam. What the hell you expecting, 4K? LOL
Tony Hawk is the most legendary sportsman ever in my mind. People don’t always realize he basically invented all this shit he was doing.
@Chōjūrō Mullen didn't invent shit for vert
Chōjūrō Street skating is completely different
@@lolmanyeah1 most tricks (even on vert) wouldn't even been possible if it wasnt for Mullen.. just saying
@@lusio7182 not true at all. 100 percent false. He is a freestyle and later a street God but people were shredding bowls and halfpipes well before he invented his kickflip. Again, he didnt Do Shit for vert skating.
@alelusio bob isn't better than tony.
Wow almost the entire cast of THPS were on that score board ♥
I saw that top 4 and said to myself "how beautiful"
This guy is pretty good. Hopefully he makes a successful career out of this.
Imagine he gets a game made in his name one day, that would be rad.
Then years later, he gets a sick remake of that
hit game with huge maps ... sigh it could all happen ...
Are u guys being serious or do u know how old he is and that he practically retired
Rocketlunch Gaming you’re terrible at sarcasm my friend.
Art Madzart u can’t tell sarcasm through text kid
Thank you for uploading this!!
He’s the Michael Jordan of skateboarding.
The MJ of just vert skateboarding tho
Ricky Fever Exactly.
Sadly everybody only cared about vert. Rodney Mullen was an absolute magician on a skateboard.
@@jeremyrafuse5330 for many years of Tony's career, people stopped caring about vert. with the start of X Games and then his 900, vert skating heated up again. he stuck it out through some rough years in the early 90's.
@@APAL880 that doesn't change that Rodney Mullen is not more well known to the masses. Everybody always associates skateboarding with Tony Hawk.
Man i miss the good days I remember going to Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson New Jersey to watch the boom boom Hawk Jam what a show he puts on🤘🤙‼️
I was there too man it was a day to remember
7:22 when you know you just put up the greatest run of all time
It’s crazy playing the games doing those moves and seeing the real guy do them it messes with your mind.
it's totally wild to think about how Tony was already 29, 30 years old when he REALLY turned it up on our culture. _Tony Hawk's Pro Skater_ would've come out when he was already 30 years old. it's never too late, people. you can always do exceptional things as long as you're still pulling air.
Back when ESPN2 was more then just regular sporting events,it was much much bigger,it expanded itself.Extreme sports is what it was.Now its no more.
How bout that EXPN?
No smartphones and social distancing = Happiness
Dalton Johnson ok
@@daltonjohnson2031 you shut up, dummy.
Woah woah woah i get social distancing and i still dont have a phone despite me being 14 but if smart phones didnt exist this prolly would not have many veiws
I’m with you man
happy 53th birthday anthony frank hawk !!!
Holyfield and Tyson both weigh in? That fight didn’t go down like people thought it would....
What do you mean by that
this guy is the Rodney Mullen of vert
I don’t even skate but this is badass I don’t care who you are. I hope skateboarding makes a comeback I kinda want to learn haha.
It hurts and is frustrating but worth the challenge and reward
Anyone know what the size of that vert ramp was? Looks tiny.
Can't believe he attempted a 900 on that thing.
You're joking, right? Look at the people on the sideline and then the height of the transition. If you were standing atop it looking down, you'd change your opinion real fast.
@@michaelstratton5223 No.. no I wouldn't, lol.
those disaster lands are gnarly
The 🐐
hey, andrew reynolds' birdhouse deck!
It’s cool watching Tony strut his stuff in these 90s X-Games, considering how he was struggling to make a living just a few years earlier. The 80s skate bubble had popped and the advent of street skating lead to vert becoming a lot less popular. The X-Games definitely saved Tony’s career when you really think about it.
Goat
thanks for the upload :)
there used to be a feature on tony on eurosport back in the day. probably xgames 97/98, not sure. but he was skating a pretty light ramp mostly in slow mo. do you by any chance have that too? ^^
Gnarly bruh 🤟
10:04 whoa!
Legendary
His varial to disaster is gnarly.
So weird hearing Jack Edwards announcing skateboarding
now he's a commentator for the boston bruins haha
Damn his competitor number is pinned onto the back of his shirt. Imagine falling 20 feet from the air off a vert ramp and having the pins puncture through your skin, ugh.
"he's done that trick before, he'll do it again" (the 900) Apparently the judges were from the future
I am pretty sure he had pulled it off in practice long before he ever pulled it off during competition.
@@fresnosean379 I don't believe that's the case, he considered his competition land the greatest day of his life, and he didn't land it for the competition, in fact the contest was over by that point, he did it for the audience and himself, and all sources say that 900 was the first ever landed 900.
@@kernelxsanders you are correct
9:05 His face is like, "Bitch shut up"
Crowd looks like modern day county fair.
6:22--7:30 wtf! 🙌👏👍
The original Bird man
559 Represent
But does he flip his board? ;) Anyways, amazing stuff, really like the extreme tweaked invert. Didnt know he could fall, he's human after all :)
If fact he does, at 7:16! He also invented the Kickflip McTwist in 1995. The "pure" one instead of a half flip varial.
But clearly that was his, only, weak point. He wasn't as consistent with flips as the younger generation.
Otherwise he probably would have competed for another five years after 1999, if it wasn't for the kickflip-pressure.
Bruh they got Hank Hill commentating
hi
Héroe
his wife's a beauty.
he sure does have long fingers and long hands. weirdo announcers lmao
Graphics are worse than THPS3
Lets see. Recorded from tv to VHS in 1997. 2 decades later copied from VHS to dvd. Ripped from dvd to VOD computer file. Coverted from VOD file to MP4 file. Uploaded to UA-cam. What the hell you expecting, 4K? LOL
@@fresnosean379 5K
@@JakenFren yeah just stfu
@@iantatro7908 Chiiiilll its a joke
@@fresnosean379 amazingly done!!
Gawd, the announcers are so terrible.