How Tony Hawk Is Still Skating At 55 Years Old
The Checkup with Doctor Mike
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The Importance of Fear in Skating
As a ten year old, if I... If there were these studies and there was this information and my parents still allowed me to do it, I would probably be more scared in that moment of my first concussion. So, for me, pads were just part of life and you had to do it. But they were terrible. The padding of my helmet was so soft and thin that the helmet actually cut my... Cut through. And that really didn't improve until a few years later. It's all calculated risk. He never went at something thinking, I hope this works out. My dad was older when I was born. He was a child of the depression. Was it rubs some
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