Tony Hawk by Tony Hawk

Tony Hawk by Tony Hawk

Author:Tony Hawk [Hawk, Tony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-06-200447-5
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2002-01-28T16:00:00+00:00


Courtesy of Tony Hawk.

Copyright © J. Grant Brittain.

12: THE PARENT TRAP

I will be the first to admit that I wouldn’t have been this successful without the enthusiastic support of my parents, but I’d be lying if I claimed that it didn’t cause problems when I was growing up. After my dad had helped get CASL up and running, he turned his attention to the professional skateboard contest circuit. At the time, pro contests weren’t unified and there was no ranking system. So, in 1983, he started the National Skateboarding Association (NSA) to fix some of the problems.

Skaters and people involved in the industry appreciated what my dad was doing, but I felt the pressure right away. I was a relatively new pro, and my dad was running the official contest series. Once again my mom became the official time- and scorekeeper to keep costs down (she worked for free). People started whispering that contests might be fixed in my favor.

My dad’s gruff way of dealing with people didn’t always help. Picture Oscar the Grouch from Sesame Street, take away the green fur and give him a larger nose, and you have my dad. He’d yell at skaters for practicing when they weren’t supposed to or for goofing off. I had always been basically well behaved at contests and he rarely had any excuse to yell at me, so sometimes it seemed as if he was favoring me. Eventually, skaters realized that he cared about them, and he just communicated by pretending he was a tough guy who grumbled and complained all the time. His bark was a lot worse than his bite.



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