Pro skater Tony Hawk explains ground and vert skateboarding in 21 levels of difficulty. From the olllie to the 900 and the heelflip 720, watch how Tony demonstrates and breaks down everything that goes into these tricks.
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21 Levels of Skateboarding with Tony Hawk: Easy to Complex | WIRED
Ahh I miss skateboarding, ain’t skated since I slammed off a hill. Good times tho 😂
Incredible eh how people make it look so easy. Its awesome
That dude kinda looks like tony hawk
This guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about!
This guy and curt Cobain have the same grandchild
Hmmm, I always use my heel to Heelflip…its my go to trick. When learning to Ollie for 1st time I was messing with my foot placement (because yea, trying to keep my board under me 😂😂) and I placed my toes off to try to off balance it and did a super high(at least 4 boards height) heelflip with land. Wasn’t want it was trying but was crazy stoked. Took over 100 trys to even flip the board all the way with no luck and gave up on it and went back to the Ollie. LOL took 2 weeks after but now is def my best trick. Even using my heel in a “funky position” to swipe directly forward (in front of me) to Inward flip with no frontside shuv.
Foot placement is actually key to just understanding angles. 90° and 180°. Adjusting your foot at right angle to compensate your “offness” which is (unique to everyone). So if you do a FS shut but keep landing 90° or even the dreaded 170°. 😂 that Lil foot adjust is really just the 10°-90° needed to complete said rotation.
Skate is math in motion. When you find the “angles” your off on. Adjusting becomes a Lil easier.
Level 1: Stand on the board
Level 2: Push without falling off after 5 seconds
Level 3: Lean and turn
En 6 años nos vemos de nuevo amigos, cuando el algoritmo nos vuelva a reunir.
Hey, I’m Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2
Anyone else mentally hear the ‘special’ sound when he demonstrated the kickflip mctwist?
i just wanna ride to the grocery store
no grinding? Wonder where that would be on the list?
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If that sounds difficult… … it is
Maaaaaan))) childhood skate games nostalgia kicked in)
Enyone december 2025?
Algorhythms blessed us, pall
level 1: (get on the board) push
level 2: turn
level 3 maual
level 4 kickturn
(after loosen trucks)
level 5 try not to fall off the board
loved these tony hawk vids back in the day…
Ok. But why did he become the Cobra kai sensei?
Could never do a kickflip. Could do heel flips maybe 1/3 of attempts though.
SUCH A HANDSOME GUY LIKE ME.