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On May 12th, 1968 Anthony Frank Hawk was born to Frank and Nancy Hawk in Carlsbad, CA. He was the youngest of 4 children. His parents, in their 40’s, took on a grandparent mentality, not a strict mom and dad role. This might have helped Tony in becoming even more devilish than he already was. His parents thought everything he did was cute and he could do no wrong.


In preschool he hated taking naps when he wasn’t tired. So when he had to go to school where he was forced to take naps, he clung to the fence and would start screeching and crying till his father won the battle. During class he was always fidgeting and could never sit still, if he wasn’t deeply involved in something or running around he would go bananas from boredom.


As he got older, he started playing traditional sports, but because he was so hyperactive he could never wait his turn to bat or wait to go on the field. When his team mates didn’t catch the ball he would take it personally and get mad at them. Once, when he struck out, he ran into a ravine and his father finally convinced him to come up by bribing him with an ice cream cone. He continued to play baseball and other sports but following rules, waiting for others, and counting on others did not suit his character.


When Tony was in elementary school he had as much trouble sitting still as he did in preschool. His behavior in class was always getting him punished. So his parents took him to the school psychologist who had him take an IQ test. He scored 144 which placed him in the “gifted” category. This helped Tony because it was more challenging, which is just what he needed, skateboarding did the rest.


When Tony’s brother, Steve, came home for a visit, he found his old skateboard he used for surfing techniques in the garage. Tony wanted to try it out, so Steve taught him how to stand and push off on the board, and once he achieved that, he wanted to accomplish even more. So Steve spent the remainder of the day teaching Tony how to turn. Tony didn’t give up until he achieved this goal too. At the time, skateboarding was another toy to just play with when Tony got bored, like a frisbee or nerf football. But as time passed, he turned to skateboarding more and more. As he dedicated more time into skating, his skills got better and his interest in the sport grew. Tony decided he didn’t want to play baseball anymore, so he told his dad. Tony thought he would be disappointed but he wasn’t, he was glad Tony found something he loved. Now that Tony found skateboarding, he found himself.


As Tony got better, he wanted not only street skating skills, but vert skills as well. The only place close enough for him to do that was at Oasis Skate Park, 15 minutes from his house. He asked his parents if he could go, but it cost to skate there and his father had lost his job after a heart attack so they were low on cash and told him no. Then one of Tony’s friend’s mother volunteered to take some of the neighborhood kids to Oasis Park. Tony asked his parents if he could go this time, and since his father had a job again, they said yes. From the moment Tony walked though the park’s gates he was spellbound. Just watching all the skater’s doing the seemingly impossible tricks amazed and inspired him. When Tony went back to the park, he noticed that to get off the ground, he needed to ollie (an unpopular trick at the time invented by 13 year old Alan Gelfand). This is the basis of all tricks used today, and Tony invented it.


As Tony got better he started spending all his spare time at Oasis. He then got a job as a paperboy to pay for his new hobby. At age 11, Tony started doing competitions. A week before each competition he would make a map of the park he would be skating and map out what tricks he would do and where he would do them. During that week he would picture the run in his mind, trying to commit it to memory. As he got older he started entering competitions more competitively. But as he got better, the sports popularity decreased. That didn’t matter to Tony, he just kept skating and got better. When he was 12 he got sponsored by Dogtown.


A few months after his 14th birthday, he turned pro for one of the most successful skateboarding company’s at the time, Powell Peralta. He was the youngest on the team. Now that he was a member of the Bone’s Brigade (the team name) he needed a skateboard design of his own that would in someway represent him. So he and a friend came up with “The Screaming Chicken Skull”. His board was made and on the shelves, and at the end of the month he was making $1,000 in profits. To 15 year old Tony that was like winning the lottery. As the years went by he kept placing 1st in almost every competition he entered. But he wasn’t happy with skateboarding anymore. In every competition he was expected to take 1st by his fans, and if he didn’t, he was a failure. So he thought long and hard about it and decided the best thing to do was retire from professional skating. He retired within the same year but still entered competitions.


He got married to Cindy Dunbar in 1990 the same year he came out of retirement. They had Riley Hawk, who also started skating at a young age. But because Tony was traveling so much and never really saw his family, they got divorced in 1994. In 1996 he got married again to Erin Lee; they had 2 sons, Spencer and Keegan. In 2004 they got divorced. He is now married to Lhotse (Low-t-see) Merriam who is pregnant with their first son. In 1999, Tony entered the X Games in which he took 1st in the doubles, landed the 900 and retired again. In 2003 he landed the 900 again at the X Games, this time, taking 1st. After that he retired for the last time. He still competes in the X Games and different competitions but is no longer a pro.


In over 20 years of skating he accomplished what no other skaters have done. He’s entered over 100 competitions, won 93 of them and placed 2nd in 17. He won 4 X Games, became a pro at age 14, and invented over 80 tricks, including some of the most well-known, the backside varial (which he invented when he was 11), nosegrind, 900, kickflip mctwist, airwalk and the gymnast plant. All of this success has made him the most well-known and famous skateboarder of all time.

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Reply:Yeah, it was a pretty interesting read.
Reply:I read the first sentence... looks a little short if its a research paper though. And looking at a few random sentences, you could spruce them up, cause you sound like a 12 year old.
Reply:It is a great story about reaching goals and aspirations. Where are your citations? Is this a research paper or a narrative/descriptive essay?
Reply:I only made it through half the paper, but from what I can tell it shows alot of research content. I think that it should be in an essay format. It would show good structural skill and better present ur information. (But it was good though!!!!)
Reply:Haha, I read it all. I like Tony Hawk. It%26#039;s really good, kept me captivated. The only thing I%26#039;d mention is in the first paragraph, you said %26quot;His parents, in their 40’s, took on a grandparent mentality, not a strict mom and dad role. This might have helped Tony in becoming even more devilish than he already was.%26quot;





The wording is a little awkward. I would change it something like, %26quot;Tony%26#039;s parents were in there 40s when he was born and they treated him as if they were his grandparents, not like a normal strict mother or father figure. This helped Tony become more devilish than he already was.%26quot;



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