Anthony Frank Hawk is an American professional skateboarder, entrepreneur, and the owner of the skateboard company Birdhouse.
Tony unraveled he was hyperactive and had to find something to focus on when growing up. Following a talk with his school psychologist, Tony did the IQ test and the result was an IQ of 144.
Subsequently, he went to Jean Farb Middle School from 1980 to 1981. However, skateboarding became his main interest, and he became a professional skateboarder at age 14.
He completed the first documented “900” skateboarding trick in 1999, licensed a video game series named after him published by Activision that same year, and is a pioneer of modern vertical skateboarding.
He retired from competing professionally in 2003 and is respected as one of the most influential skateboarders of all time.
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Hudson Riley Hawk is an American professional skateboarder.
He was born on December 6, 1992, in Carlsbad, California, United States.
He is the son of Tony Hawk and his first wife, Cindy Dunbar. Unlike his father who is a prominent vert skateboarder, Riley is well known as a street skater.
He turned pro on his 21st birthday in December 2013 and became Skateboarder Magazine’s 2013 Amateur of the Year on the same day.
He is sponsored by Baker and Lakai.
Riley’s is parents divorced only a year after his birth. Since then, his father remarried three times, and now has three half-siblings, Spencer Hawk, Keegan and Kadence Clover Hawk.
Riley is also fond of music and is a guitar player and a member of two bands – the punk rock band Warish with whom he released the album “Down in Flames” in 2019, and the EP “Running Scared” and also a part of the psychedelic rock band Petyr.