How Tony Hawk Is Still Skating At 55 Years Old
The Checkup with Doctor Mike
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The Importance of Wrist Guards in Skating
The kind of skating we were doing was empty swimming pools, right? It was Dogtown and Z-Boys era. We were trying to figure out how to get airborne. You can't survive that without the pads really. If you don't know how to slide on your knees, you're not really going to be able to learn all these tricks or survive. Or whether... Yeah, or whether a hit to the head. But I remember the liberation of getting rid of wrist guards where it was like, oh, yeah. And I had to overcome the idea that, well, you might break your wrist.
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