Tony Hawk

Tony Hawk is an American professional skateboarder and entrepreneur whose competitive achievements, skateboarding video games, and media work helped bring modern skateboarding to a broad audience.

900 (skateboarding): A skateboarding aerial trick consisting of two and a half rotations, or 900 degrees. Hawk landed the first widely recognized 900 in competition at the 1999 X Games.
Stacy Peralta: An American skateboarder, filmmaker, and entrepreneur who helped lead the Bones Brigade. Peralta's team and films gave Hawk an early platform and helped popularize skateboarding.
Skateboarding: A sport and culture centered on riding and performing tricks on a skateboard. Hawk's career helped make skateboarding a global sport and mainstream form of entertainment.
Street skateboarding: A skateboarding discipline that uses urban-style obstacles such as rails, stairs, and ledges. Hawk became famous chiefly for vert skating, while street skating developed a different competitive language.
1999 X Games: The 1999 edition of the annual extreme-sports competition organized by ESPN. Hawk's successful 900 there became a defining moment in his career.
Per Welinder: A Swedish professional skateboarder and entrepreneur who co-founded Birdhouse Skateboards with Tony Hawk. Welinder partnered with Hawk to establish Birdhouse as a skateboarding brand.
X Games: An annual extreme-sports competition launched by ESPN in 1995. Hawk's repeated appearances and major performances helped establish skateboarding as an X Games centerpiece.
Vert skateboarding: A skateboarding discipline performed on vertical ramps, emphasizing aerial tricks and transitions. This is the ramp discipline in which Hawk made his name and landed his celebrated 900.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater: A skateboarding video game series launched by Activision in 1999. Hawk's name and likeness anchored a series that introduced skateboarding culture to many players.
Rodney Mullen: An American skateboarder known for developing foundational flatground tricks, including the kickflip. Mullen's technical innovations expanded the street-skating vocabulary that Hawk's era helped popularize.

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