Check out YOUNG Tony Hawk 🛹

[@RollMeOneKenobii]

The 80s was so colorful

[@lyndy101]

90s too with the pastel colors

[@MarioCavett]

You notice that huh.

[@moonlitegram]

@@lyndy101 nah, the 90s pretty quickly became all about muted tones etc. I wouldn't have been caught dead wearing anything i wore in the 80s for most of the 90s. Once grunge hit culture shifted pretty quickly towards moving away from the bombastic colorful vibes of the 80s.

[@DemonicDung]

you do realize the camera lense was different???

[@DemonicDung]

jesus christ when was the last time you saw something besides pixels?@@lyndy101

[@mrpowers4667]

What’s crazy to me is Tony still sounds almost exactly the same

[@karlepaul6632]

Naw...his voice was waaaaay higher

[@viceb7]

Seriously 😂 I thought the same. He's my favorite.

[@somerandom7672]

Tony 37 years ago when he was a slightly younger teenager.

[@bigsluryt]

his voice is literally the exact same

[@michaelpayt]

​@@bigslurytit sounds like he's tiny tony hawk

[@jesse_-]

Tony hawk was 19 years old in 1987. I looked it up, and we share the same birthday. He’s 5 years older than me.

[@nabranestwistypuzzler7019]

@@bigslurytnah his voice sounds different

[@UrMastaNigga2024]

​@@jesse_-He's got the same birthday as you????? That's soooo awesome and amazing!!!!!

[@billmurray4206]

“No working and no responsibilities, wearing shorts and t shirts all the time” 😂

[@trentbateman]

Or a modern day hybrid wfh worker. Lucky if many of us even have pants on for the zoom calls

[@TheBillMurrray]

Dreams can come true!

[@JamesCraigWhoop]

Wonder why so many homeless now

[@Joeri20cm]

Didn't know I was living in the 80s too!

[@bidibum]

@@trentbatemannot even close man, not even close

[@Shnecko]

Jeez, imagine making 6 figures in the 80s as a teenager for skateboarding. That'd be close to 400 grand today.

[@trentbateman]

Spot on…around 4x with inflation and technology improvements adding to costs

[@mattc9875]

Possibly more

[@tomfewins5803]

But skateboards are 60x more expensive so really tony was on 6 million

[@John-c4r1o]

​@@tomfewins5803 The skateboard tops were never a $1.50

[@FierceDeityRick]

More like high 200s but still yeah I was just saying that like wow he was raking it in since I was born lol..

[@TinnCup]

Shop owner was absolutely blasted 😂

[@misanthrope5063]

Baked*

[@marsbase3729]

dude totally! 😝

[@marsbase3729]

​@misanthrope5063 "blasted" is same as "stoned" or "baked" in some places

[@Krawberry]

@@misanthrope5063there’s a lot of different terms for it

[@0_____CJ-CJ______0]

@@KrawberryFacts hella slang for weed shits prolly infinite

[@chza1181]

For someone to get this much success and fame at such a young age and still be a down to earth humble guy today speaks a lot about his character.

[@joelroudette1708]

❤❤❤

[@leonhosie3053]

What an 80's hairstyle. I can't believe how brilliant he was!

[@Flappy_OW]

I know it’s a different time because this man said $1.50

[@willis_squintrillis]

It’s $150 if a skate board in 60s and 70s was like $20 then it wouldn’t drop to $1.50

[@helloproxy]

​@@willis_squintrillisthe news reporter in the video said $1.50

[@willis_squintrillis]

@@helloproxy dollar fifty is slang for $150 boards wouldn’t drop from $20 in the 60s to $1.50 in the 80s

[@davion4777]

Did you really think you could buy a board for ONE dollar and fifty? Come on now, even if they were different times, that’s literally impossible. He meant 150.

[@FrackaLacka]

Yeah $1.50 if skating existed in maybe in like 1942 lmao

[@meneks6739]

Yo that first trick was actually sick asf

[@MalcolmTexxx]

Right?! Should be in THPS

[@TaylorPhase]

whats the name of it

[@supermoneyball420]

This era of skateboarding was like if they had wilt era nba games at the mall rodney mullen was in parking lots too u could probably get crazy lucky with what u saw 😮

[@Deezy_Ankh]

​@@MalcolmTexxxit was lol

[@RealJackjem]

@@TaylorPhasefrontside 180 ollie

[@user-yz5mn2go2d]

That dude talking to the news reporter at the end basically incorporated every major Californian stereotype into his brief moment speaking on the mic. 😂

[@shaunpiotrowski3185]

Or he incorporated the retrospective of the republican on the youth of a generation that didn't match with reality. Only time will tell. Btw Tony Hawk is the reason skateboarding is in the Olympics. Appreciate your national treasure. Nobody in the world has done more than him for the sport

[@shaunpiotrowski3185]

He is literally a Renaissance man in the world of skateboarding

[@shaunpiotrowski3185]

You literally know nothing if you hold that opinion about that scene at the time

[@user-yz5mn2go2d]

@@shaunpiotrowski3185 Did you really feel the need to make 3 separate posts refuting my comment which was solely my OPINION and meant to be silly and poke fun at the guy from the end? You sound like a blast a parties. Maybe you need to stop taking yourself so seriously, as no one was bashing Tony Hawk. I, myself, am a skateboarding fan and also respect Tony. But you just demonstrated one of the most anti-skateboarding and anti-free spirited attitudes I've ever seen, and Tony Hawk himself would probably spit at your feet if he saw you in person.

[@tubbluv]

@@user-yz5mn2go2dbro the store clerk geeked me up too 😂 hes got the california dreamin sparkle in his eye saying all that

[@thesleepingpusheen2650]

And 37 years later Tony still sounds about the same 😂

[@rickmann5227]

Thank you Steve Hawk for showing Tony the way!

[@theshamanarchist5441]

His brother Steve got him skating but his dad Frank was the head honcho at the American Skateboard Association. So that helped a lot too.

[@rickmann5227]

@theshamanarchist5441 Absolutely, Frank was the man! Tony's #1 fan

[@kentang1528]

Tony hawk the GOAT .

[@hermitally419]

The guy at the end made the most important statement.

[@emperomassinencambio...9941]

80's kids? I'm a 34 year old dude living in 2024 and I am 100% interested in the stuff he mentioned. 😅

[@mikeolson3939]

Word lol

[@purplepineapple7893]

Lmmfao

[@freeschaeffercox1640]

Diversity screwed it up !

[@heinrichstaubsauger3873]

That makes you an 80's kid....

[@emperomassinencambio...9941]

@@heinrichstaubsauger3873 I was born in 1990 Bro, you must sort your math.

[@97HawksFly]

We need to bring that first trick back. That was dope!

[@johngibbons3138]

So, sooo cool. Major respect for what he created. The poster child for making skateboarding accessible

[@I_SP0K3N_I]

Wow so beautiful to see the past

[@Jblizzybaby]

The mcsqueeb haircut

[@finnmcginn9931]

I had it. I was 12

[@hatred9427]

I like how young Tony Hawk's voice is almost as if old Tony Hawk inhaled helium.

[@89kilemal]

Almost like its the same guy but younger?

[@connoisseuroftigolbitts]

Andy the shop owner really foretold the future 😂

[@deathxcountry]

whoever skated just before hawk was sick!

[@starfox1984]

Was about to say. That dude was probably a skater's skater

[@GoodCookinAquarius]

Like cancer??.. he didn't seem sick at all.🧐

[@deathxcountry]

u r butthole guy@@GoodCookinAquarius

[@wedothis1563]

@@GoodCookinAquarius”sick” is slang for awesome

[@squeakyelbows]

@@GoodCookinAquarius No that's not what he meant at all. He probably just got a cold or something.

[@720erik2]

That was a pretty fucking high Ollie air Tony pulled off on that 80ib board

[@idhatemet00]

“Ollie air” lol

[@720erik2]

@@idhatemet00 that’s what it was called in the 80s fella when done off a launch ramp

[@worminator15]

But he did a halfcab didn’t he? So it’s a halfcab air back in the 80s?😅

[@mitchdavis9155]

He was also in an 80s movie with Christian Slater called "gleaming the cube" around the same time

[@moonlitegram]

Just rewatched that movie for the first time in years and years on Amazon the other month. I forgot it also had a performance from the Red Hot Chili Peppers in it too, back when they were really heavy on the funk sound.

[@mitchdavis9155]

@@moonlitegram I bought it off of eBay, I loved it so much when I was younger when I got into his games

[@chrisb15679]

He was in "Thrashin" as well.

[@sk82rok]

Rodney Mullen was also in gleaming the cube!

[@joshreinhart6644]

What a CLASSIC 80's movie for skateboarding. The classic 1980's movie for BMX is "Rad". The classic surf flick in that era is "Northshore"

[@thegoon3088]

100k in 87 for a teenager is wild

[@LostTemplate]

W Tony

[@dontworry1328]

and 100k for a teen today isn't ?

[@thegoon3088]

@dontworry1328 do you always put words in people's mouth you fukn puss e?

[@adamwatson5292]

​@@dontworry1328Did he say that ?

[@mr.hellraisaa]

comparing the price to everything that’s on the market at this time since then… no, 100k is not the same, and yes it depends how wisely they use it, 100%, 80%, 50%, or 0%, it’s up to them how they spend the 100k today, you can use it 100% wisely and still end up broke, or use it 100% wisely and make another 100k (legally saying) but yeah, in the end, 100k today wont buy as nearly the same shi it could 40 years ago.

[@mokari9268]

Always standing on business.

[@KelpPardue]

$1.50 for a deck in 1987?? 😮

[@crazyralph6386]

That’s what a skater got paid if his deck was sold. A fully complete board was over US$100 back in the mid 80’s, which was quite a lot. At his peak, Tony Hawk was making over $20K per month on board royalties from Powell.

[@benyseus6325]

A buck fifty is slang for 150$ bruh

[@Elitaracy]

⁠@@benyseus6325he said “a dollar fifty” I know what you mean tho

[@benyseus6325]

@@Elitaracy mate a dollar fifty is slang for 150$. Do ppl honestly believe a board costs 1.50$?? Use some common sense cmon

[@Elitaracy]

@@benyseus6325 I literally agreed with u…..

[@tcdamack4009]

$1.50 for a board, yeah our government has fucked us the last 50 years

[@martinkuliza]

it's not $1.50 that's rubbish I REMEMBER AND RECALL 1987 My first board was a ROAD WARRIOR From BigW it was $20 so there is NO WAY !!! that a Santa Cruz or Powell Peralta was 1.50 I later had a Power Peralta and my mate had a Santa Cruz I bought JUST THE BOARD $150 then after you get Trucks, Rail guards, Soft compound street wheels I think i paid around $200 approx for the completed board (that i had to build) My mate paid like $250 all up THERE IS NO WAY ANY BOARD in 1987 was $1.50 NOT A HOPE even back in the 70s they were like $5 i reckon $1.5 is code for $150 it was possible to buy a board for $15 but not for $1.50 NOT A CHANCE Back in the day $2 got you a bag or Marbles, think about that A Container of slime was $10approx A BMX bike was like $80 hence a standard skateboard complete was like $20 or $30 but if you went with top brands like Santa Cruze or Peralta, No... You're above $130 EASY ! Same if you got a BMX but then you want Handlebar pads and bark busters and tuffs etc and better brakes Your bike is gonna go from $80 to around $250 Hence why we didn't all have a Redline or Mongoose like you see in BMX Bandits and we didn't all have Boards like you see in Gleaming the Cube that was only in you were considered RICH at the time... or... IF YOU MOWED LIKE A MILLION LAWNS FOR POCKET MONEY

[@DarthEyesDragon]

You just found out?

[@CountryKyle007]

$150

[@markoconnor4110]

I remember buying a hosoi just the deck around that year and over 50 bucks

[@anthonyv6962]

You can't be so slow as to think they really cost $1.50 and not that he intended to say a buck fifty.

[@oosthakker]

Lol that ending. like he was talking about someone else but he just tells what he likes himself

[@streetcrewskateboarding1632]

That dude at the end was speaking straight facts 😂🔥

[@davidantone4593]

Dudeeee a 1.50 for a board!!!!????? Wtfffff

[@dpend]

Hahahaha

[@privateprivate1865]

I caught that too. Was the dude trying to be hip by calling a $150⁰⁰ board a $1⁵⁰? Wtballz?

[@jawkojawko7094]

that shop owner interview was fucking epic

[@MrsGamerMom4]

The price of boards went up but the options in design went down 😂😂😂😂 it was like a million boards on that wall 😂😂

[@Doo-l5x]

$1.50 in 1987 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $4.06 today!!? Dude, the purchasing power of the dollar went waay down!

[@MrsGamerMom4]

@@Doo-l5x those same boards start at 50 dollars now

[@wolfpackwarriors]

My mom drove from Indina to Mexico on $5 of gas in the early nineties

[@chexcollects]

@@wolfpackwarriorshaha yeah right.

[@chimrichalds8985]

It's 150

[@finnmcginn9931]

Tony hitting that launch ramp switch in 87 is pretty sweet.

[@NotesFromTheOwlBox]

This kid obviously has no future

[@SadTown99]

😂😂😂😂

[@martinkuliza]

I mean, Look at that haircut... He'll amount to nothing

[@vim2286]

And he looks like a bad influence

[@melanchomusic1773]

ikr, should've focus on school, but instead he nonsensely fooling around with that thing called skateboard

[@BRNardy]

I know right, kid's gonna live in a birdhouse

[@TOMANDKATIE]

Dude the shop owner at the end of the video was so fucking mellow and down to earth. It was awesome.

[@the_real_cash_iconic]

A dollar gifted for a freaking deck is crazy

[@larrybecker9565]

It was awesome seeing all those old school skateboard decks

[@RaidersSuk4Life]

No working and no responsibilities hasn’t changed 😂

[@crazyralph6386]

Except the bikini clad chicks now have d*cks 😂

[@mattc9875]

Only that it applies to people well over that age nowadays 😂

[@enrico-pucci8984]

Dude everything used to be so colourful and vibrant

[@waavyfm]

That 1st trick was insane 😮🎉

[@E.T.FoneHome-lz4ce]

Right?!! That was way cooler than tonys 180

[@LaKwahsLament]

I was so fortunate to have come into this world in 87’ and be a kid in the 90’s

[@lyrikalkilla433]

March, ‘87 baby!!

[@joshnacua8998]

November 87 here

[@jedimindtrix2142]

Sep 6th, 87 right here 🎉

[@ConstantinFlattermann]

September here ❤❤❤😂

[@esseeedee]

1987 babies suck

[@Lyonatan]

Shop owner was baked af xD

[@AretiNamtzu-mi1qf]

God has blessed you young man 🙏. Now your the greatest of all time!

[@cslewisster]

Tony worked hard to the GOAT.

[@crazyralph6386]

He was the greatest by the late 80’s

[@shanksmcnasty6650]

In terms of doing the most for the sport worldwide and bringing it to the mainstream - yes But we all know Rodney is the true goat

[@sergioromero4408]

I remember reading his autobigraphy in the 5th grade. Still one of my favorites of all time.

[@alexmurphy4697]

Firt guys trick was crzy

[@Ben20188]

Still the coolest man alive

[@BiblicallyAccurateToaster]

Lol, I wish it was only $1.50. Nah, back then a pro board alone would run you somewhere between $100 to $140. He was right about the bikini babes though🤙

[@JosephIrvin-pm4cr]

Watch this young man. He’s going places.

[@christmasdespacito2505]

the amount of different colored, bright shirts and clothing is so awesome now its all black and white and red and blue

[@ConstantinFlattermann]

Beige and brown is IN too now….can’t forget beige my guy 😂❤

[@redfordreddington8834]

It's the same colors

[@junebug313]

Dude wasn't wrong..growing up in the 90s in Detroit skateboarding hit the streets pretty hard. Us younger kids were watching Rocket Power, skating until we had to come inside, dreaming of skating near a beach in California. I didn't make it to California until I was 22. That year I hit both coasts and saw a lot in between. Wish I got to experience it when I was younger, but the little kid in me definitely perked up when I hit Ocean Beach in San Diego that first time.

[@2bin]

Tony was really good back in the day. I wonder whatever became of him...

[@crazyralph6386]

😂

[@Mylastusernamewastakedown]

Do you not own a television? 😂

[@Doug_Brest]

That first move was actually nuts

[@Ghostsrt392]

Bro ant no one gonna talk about how 100k was a lot back then in a year?

[@mamaharumi]

I mean, it still is.

[@zukodude487987]

​​@@mamaharumialmoat 40 years later its not the same. I calculated that Tony hawks 100k today would have been 270k, a 2.7x increase is a lot. That money i could throw in the stock market and live off passive income.

[@sharp3552]

Tony Hawk net worth 2024 = $140 million!!!😳

[@HeadNtheClouds]

This is still my life! 40 years later, only I ride rollerblades more now

[@willis_squintrillis]

Traitor lol

[@HeadNtheClouds]

@@willis_squintrillis I’m a 58 year old skater, so when I fall, I break bones, sooo, skating on blades is safer,somewhat & I like the amount of ground I can cover & all the people I talk to all over the place, soooo…. Yeah…

[@ConstantinFlattermann]

@@HeadNtheCloudsdo your thing, love it. Maybe i try to start again too

[@elgenfranord1651]

So gay

[@HeadNtheClouds]

@@elgenfranord1651 I’m a woman

[@RobertAragonIsGhxst]

That last part was words to live by🤙🏽😂

[@TheCitrusCollective]

A DOLLAR FIFTY?!

[@SethParr]

Yep, talk about inflation.

[@seveneyes77]

Nope

[@Anzio_VR]

$150

[@ecksfactor]

I was 13 in 1987, Tony was and still is the pinnacle of skating

[@Vice_Admiral_Garp]

1.50 😢 everyone puts too much faith in corrupt bankers and lobbyists

[@RobertAragonIsGhxst]

He hit it on point at the end😂

[@anarchist_parable]

I can't convey to the Z Babies how good Tony was. Like they don't understand that he was making up tricks back when we only had one another to learn from. There was no video to rewatch 1000 times until you got it. When skate videos came out they were crude and in VHS tapes that you had to circulate amongst your friends. Tony was out there getting air.

[@jukijunk]

Yo that first trick off the ramp was dope

[@shockysocky5396]

California was cool back then, how times have changed

[@MaxRager80]

Now it's infested with woke morons.

[@MaxRager80]

Now it's infested with woke weirdos.

[@wilfordbrimley6938]

That first trick was sick though!

[@graemeguthrie8758]

You don’t realize how bad things are until your realize the price of a skateboard has risen 1000% in the 40 years

[@carstenpfundt]

Buck fifty is slang for $150

[@charlesc.b2435]

@@carstenpfundt Skateboards were no 150 in 87 I got my first board in 94 at 9 years old and my Dad paid 15 dollars for it and it was custom!

[@jtg_edc]

"Reach for the Beach" was an awesome store.

[@Lilyoto]

1.50

[@MailmanRSO]

I bet people back then were still saying "hey, did anybody ever tell you that you look like Tony Hawk?"

[@kingacegamer7254]

$1:50 is Crazy

[@willis_squintrillis]

150$

[@babujakosia9395]

DID HE SAY A DOLLAR FIFTY ?????? man times have changed huh😂

[@SlicersGolf]

1.50 for a deck?

[@kylewattssurfing3266]

NICCCCCCEEEE NICCCCCCCEEEE THROWBACK!! ✌️😎✌️

[@bink9797]

bro even with inflation that’s like 5 bucks for a board.. even if he’s talking about just a brand name deck that’s insane hahahaha

[@MarioCavett]

It wasn't the boards

[@jimmyberry4451]

Bruh It was a 150 dollars not 1.50

[@mathewspider-maneigen4826]

This was the hair jason Ellis was talking about when he would do a trick then whip his hair ..😂😂

[@kennethglover6633]

$1.50!?

[@61936]

Buck 50 is slang for $150 companies can’t make money selling boards that took them thousands to produce for that cheap

[@carpo719]

Funny timing as I'm watching a Bones Brigade documentary right now. I grew up as a skater in the 80s and let me just say it was the time of my life

[@Lost9am-5pm]

Did that man say 1$ for a skateboard. how much did they go for anyways back in the days

[@zukodude487987]

I wish i could travel and visit 80s california.

[@callamastia]

$1.50? 😐

[@JustinJamesXJS]

Exactly. Lol

[@saul3680]

I remember Tony hawks board in the 80s. It was a board that a lot of my friends wanted to get.

[@ramibeni87]

😂😮

[@larrybecker9565]

That kid doing the first trick of this video that was insane awesome 👍

[@craigmactak1839]

Per Welinder. He and Tony created Birdhouse Skateboards in the early 90s.

[@Kushomatik11]

$1.50 for a skateboard 34 years ago. Now a board alone cost 150-200$

[@FrightBites]

$150 complete not $1.50

[@benyseus6325]

A buck fifty is slang for 150$ in the 1980-1990s. If they’re still 150-200$ that means they actually haven’t gone up in price that much. Use common sense, you really believe a skateboard would actually cost 1.50$???

[@spht9ng]

@@benyseus6325 lol maybe if skateboards existed in the 1910s you could probably get one for a nickel

[@shaunpiotrowski3185]

You gotta understand, Tony Hawk was the Henry Ford of his time. No he didn't invent the assembly line, but he did make skateboard more popular and thus more accessible to a generation.

[@61936]

Are you in Australia or something

[@mattrobson113]

Id like the take on California now

[@jordanrosario5159]

Bruh, if boards were a $1.50 back then, they should be $4 according to inflation. Who tf made them $30+

[@MangoTreeWildAndFree]

Golden times i miss youuuu

[@bchillbong-uf2io]

That surfer dude in yellow is a cool dude.

[@whileistaysecluded]

“You, flock of seagulls.. you know why we’re here?”

[@SpiritOfTheWest1]

That first trick is absolutely nuts😳😳

[@querty292]

This kid looks like he’s going places, maybe even have a videogame franchise

[@oysterward]

i love his hair

[@josephvanwyk2088]

Hahahah, that shop owner is literally the definition of 80s.

[@JohnTube2K]

The good old days

[@mrpowers4667]

Did this local news station shoot on film, which was later upgraded? No way this was shot on 3/4 or beta and looks like this

[@manuelmurua8167]

Good ol’ days!

[@eacomedy]

The Greatest Skater of All Time®️™️

[@davebertoletti]

Those were good days

[@carlossandi4260]

This. Its gold my friend.. 💔💔✌️✌️💔💔✌️✌️