Teaches Skateboarding

Tony Hawk

Tony Hawk Teaches Skateboarding

Meet Tony Hawk, legendary skateboarder and your new instructor. Tony gives an overview of what you’ll learn in his class: basic, intermediate, and advanced skills in street, park, and vert taught by Riley Hawk, Lizzie Armanto, and Tony himself. 

1. Meet Your Instructor

Meet Your Instructor

If you’ve never stepped on a skateboard before, then here’s where you start. Tony walks you through the fundamentals, including pushing, stopping, and turning. 

2. Skills & Techniques

Skills & Techniques

The ollie is an essential trick in skateboarding. Tony goes deep into the nuances of the ollie to help you perfect it. 

3. The Ollie

The Ollie

Get an intimate look at Tony’s journey from a scrawny, bullied kid to a skateboarding icon with a huge fan base.

4. Underdog to Icon

Underdog to Icon

At the peak of his success, Tony nearly loses it all when skateboarding tanks in popularity. Tony opens up about rebuilding his career and how he learned that his love of skateboarding means more to him than the money. 

5. Trials & Tribulations

Trials & Tribulations

Tony teaches you some fundamental street skateboarding tricks: the backside pop shove-it and the frontside ollie 180. 

6. Street Basics

Street Basics

Tony hands the class off to his son Riley Hawk, a top-level street skateboarder. Riley breaks down intermediate and advanced street tricks.

7. Street Intermediate & Advanced

Street Intermediate & Advanced

Sharing pointers about going to a skate park for the first time, Tony demonstrates the basics of carving and dropping in.

8. Park Basics

Park Basics

Lizzie Armanto, one of the world’s top park skaters, takes over from Tony and teaches you intermediate and advanced park tricks.

9. Park Intermediate & Advanced

Park Intermediate & Advanced

Tony takes you through the fundamentals of vert skateboarding, from simple moves like pumping on a vert ramp to how to do his signature trick, the Madonna.

10. Vert Basics & Intermediate

Vert Basics & Intermediate

Learn some of Tony’s advanced signature moves, including the 540 McTwist.

11. Vert Advanced

Vert Advanced

Tony tells the story of the night he landed the 900 at the X Games in 1999.

12. Playback: The 900

Playback: The 900

Get a behind-the-scenes look at Tony’s first successful kickflip McTwist.

13. Playback: The Kickflip McTwist

Playback: The Kickflip McTwist

Tony shares his insider tips on how to stand out in competitive skateboarding and what it takes to win.

14. How to Win

How to Win

Find out how Tony created the iconic video game Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater and how it changed skateboarding. 

15. An Inside Look: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater

An Inside Look: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater

Skateboarding is no longer an outsider’s sport—now it’s going to the Olympics and changing lives for a new generation. Tony shares his final thoughts on what skateboarding has meant to him. 

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