Tony Hawk licensed a skateboarding video game series named after him published by Activision that same year.
45 Facts About Tony Hawk
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Tony Hawk retired from competing professionally in 2003 and is regarded as one of the most influential skateboarders of all time.
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Tony Hawk was born on May 12,1968, in San Diego, California, to Nancy and Frank Peter Rupert Hawk, and was raised in San Diego.
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Tony Hawk has two older sisters, Pat and Lenore, and an older brother, Steve.
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The results were that Tony Hawk was "gifted", as he was tested with an IQ of 144, so school advisers recommended placing him in advanced classes.
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Tony Hawk attended Jean Farb Middle School from 1980 to 1981.
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Tony Hawk's parents supported his skateboarding because it served as an outlet for his excessive energy.
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Tony Hawk's skills developed, and he made his television debut on Captain Kangaroo as "Skateboard Johnny" in 1981.
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Tony Hawk was officially the National Skateboard Association world champion for 12 consecutive years.
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Tony Hawk attended three high schools and graduated from Torrey Pines High School in 1986.
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Tony Hawk listed Steve Caballero and Christian Hosoi as his influences at the time.
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On June 27,1999, Tony Hawk became the first skateboarder to land a "900", a trick involving the completion of two-and-a-half mid-air revolutions on a skateboard, in which he was successful on his twelfth attempt.
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Tony Hawk was invited to US president Barack Obama's June 2009 Father's Day celebration and skated in the hallways of the nearby Old Executive Office Building on the White House grounds.
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In 2009, Tony Hawk was inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame at its inaugural ceremony.
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In July 2021, Tony Hawk briefly ended his competitive retirement to participate in the Vert Best Trick event at that year's X Games, finishing in fourth place out of nine competitors.
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Tony Hawk later appears in Moscow to teach them the "360 Varial Heelflip Lien" move.
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Tony Hawk appeared as a kid in the Backyard Sports game, Backyard Skateboarding.
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In 1986, Tony Hawk was a featured skateboarder and skater-double for Josh Brolin in the movie Thrashin'.
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Tony Hawk had a cameo in the movie The New Guy, and appeared in Jackass: The Movie with Mat Hoffman and Bam Margera, skateboarding in a fat suit and Jackass Number Two, while skateboarding through an obstacle course.
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Tony Hawk appeared in the film following the 2006 Gumball Rally, 3000 Miles, again with Bam Margera.
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Tony Hawk played the police officer who arrests Ryan Dunn in the movie Haggard: The Movie.
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Tony Hawk made a brief cameo appearance in Lords of Dogtown as an astronaut, where he is shown comically falling off the skateboard as he is a "rookie".
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Tony Hawk voiced himself in the 2006 animated movie Tony Hawk in Boom Boom Sabotage, where he is kidnapped by circus freaks.
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Tony Hawk was featured as an extra in the "Weird Al" Yankovic video "Smells Like Nirvana".
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Tony Hawk made a cameo appearance in the Simple Plan music video for "I'm Just a Kid", he can be seen, in a crowd, at a high school, watching kids skating.
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Tony Hawk guest voiced on The Simpsons episode "Barting Over", where he played himself, along with fellow San Diegans Blink-182.
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Tony Hawk ends up having a comical play off with him after Homer begins to show him up.
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Tony Hawk appeared as himself in MXC in a special "MXC Almost Live" episode in 2004.
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Tony Hawk hosted Cartoon Network's "Hall of Game" sports award show on February 25,2011.
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Tony Hawk appeared on the internet cooking show Epic Meal Time on October 28,2011, to celebrate the show's one-year anniversary, where he can be seen in the final scene eating a deep-fried pizza cake.
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Tony Hawk reappeared on another Epic Meal Time video on July 20,2013, as a guest on the educational cooking show Handle It.
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Tony Hawk assisted Harley Morenstein in cooking egg rolls.
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Tony Hawk guest-starred on the ABC comedy Last Man Standing.
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Tony Hawk played himself in an episode of Rocket Power.
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Tony Hawk appeared in Disney's Zeke and Luther as himself.
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In 2015, Tony Hawk acted as a stunt double for Will Ferrell during a skateboarding scene in the film Daddy's Home.
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Tony Hawk sustained an injury that required 10 stitches in his leg while filming the scene.
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Tony Hawk competed in the 2020 third season of The Masked Singer as "Elephant".
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Tony Hawk was the first of Group B to be eliminated.
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In 2002, Tony Hawk started a show tour featuring freestyle motocross, skateboarding, and BMX.
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In January 2012, Tony Hawk launched the YouTube channel "RIDE Channel".
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In December 2011, Tony Hawk was identified by Transworld Skateboarding magazine as the second most influential skateboarder of all time after Mark Gonzales for the invention of the Backside Ollie to tail.
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Tony Hawk was married to Lhotse Merriam from 2006 to 2011.
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Tony Hawk married his fourth wife, Cathy Goodman, on June 27,2015, in a ceremony in Limerick, Ireland.
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In 2020, the Tony Hawk Foundation changed its name to The Skatepark Project to better describe the organization's mission.