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Catch the thrills of skateboarding with this new documentary on Tony Hawk
Updated On: 08 July, 2024 09:05 AM IST | Mumbai | Devashish Kamble
Watch this documentary about skateboarding icon Tony Hawk to soak in the spirit of the sport that makes its second appearance at the Paris Olympiad
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Tony Hawk performs a trick at an event in Copenhagen in 2015. Pics Courtesy/Youtube; Wikimedia Commons
"If gymnastics has Nadia Comăneci, we have Tony Hawk,” declared the announcers at the 1999 X Games in San Francisco. Twenty-five years later, the 56-year-old, who once entertained fans with jaw-dropping flips and spins, will cheer on a new generation of skateboarders at the upcoming Paris Summer Olympics 2024. Tony Hawk: Until The Wheels Fall Off is a deep-dive not only into the sporting icon’s life, but the journey of the sport to mainstream attention. In that, it makes for an essential viewing.
In the two-hour-long documentary, Hawk’s idols, including Steve Caballero and Stacy Peralta, revisit how a lanky boy from California carved out a space for himself amidst the rise fall, and resurrection of the skating culture in the USA. “He would fall, break a bone, and dust himself off for another run. We couldn’t do that,” states Peralta in a scene, aptly summarising the skateboarding spirit.
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