How Tony Hawk Is Still Skating At 55 Years Old
The Checkup with Doctor Mike
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The Importance of Bailing and Slamming
Bailing is premeditated. You take off, something goes wrong. Take a step for impact and then go to your knees. Slamming is when you think everything's cool and then you're on the ground. Those are the KOs. So basically, when you're bailing, you're doing like a form of parkour where you're like trying to absorb the impact. And if it's in your contest ride, if it wasn't right, I still try to make it.
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