Tony Hawk | Who You Callin' A Sellout? 

+Harley Morenstein Damn Harley! Back at it again with the excellent comments.

you watch skate vids?

suh dude

LA Turtle suh my dude

gg 1) pick up a dictionary and read the meaning of the word "propoganda". 2) nobody forced anyone at gunpoint ro buy skateboards and clothing.

Heard of Rodney Mullen?

savage davvaci Rodney Mullen has done more for the art of skateboarding while Tony has done more for the popularity and mainstream success of skateboarding. Arguing who is more important is a useless argument because without Rodney, there would be no Tony, but without Tony, nobody outside of skateboarders would know who Rodney is

@@paulmoore5392 Tony is a business man but a real skateboarder I disagree, dude wanted fame. He was hated in his day for a reason.

@@onepunch5907 he was hated because no skater has ever been as big as he is when he reached popularity..like nobody in the history of skateboarding

@@flakyderelict9820 what about Rodney?

lol you are the man !!

haha

that's amazing

Krisco Dangus He also paid for the park I grew up skating at.

You live here in Oregon.

Larry Finklestein anyone that doubts his love and commitment to the sport and culture is a fucking idiot. He’s the perfect ambassador of what we all love, skateboarding, and he’s catapulted our culture into being relevant and acceptable among the common culture. Skateboarding is one of the most difficult sports and it’s nice to see people appreciate what we all do nowadays. Skateboarders are high tier athletes, Tony Hawk is like 70% of the reason that we get seen as such

Larry Finklestein Huge 540’s 🧐

We Win you are an idiot

You are spot on there.

Josh, you're right and you're so cute

I just had this same conversation with my little brother, all we did was play Tony Hawk games every edition. The one with Dark Vator and his light saber was my favorite.

i love seeing josh comment on things ngl

oh josh!no one will take you seriously as a street skateboarder that wears a helmet.sighhhhhhhhh

Lucky dude

That’s really cool man

THPS3 got me on a skateboard

THPS4 is where its at. Skating the zoo and watching the hippos fuck

411VM

my reason is Tony Hawk Project 8

+Oscar godoy I take that back. the actual game that got me on a board is thug1 ! the story line was awesome for its time.

Ridiculousness

It's not selling out if you give some of it back lol

As a father that skated and have a son that skates, this made me tear up. That's good stuff right there.

That's the fakest shit Ive ever heard

Tony was once with his Birdhouse crew in Switzerland one day. My Mum found it out on Twitter and we went straight to the skatepark he was in. We sadly came too late so we couldn't watch the demo and the signing time was almost up, they also said they had no more Birdhouse Products to sell for the autographs (I believe we were talking to clint walker, but I didn't know of him at the time). After my Mum telling Clint that we were on our way as soon as we saw the twitter post, he gave us three Tony Hawk Posters to go sign. We then went to meet Tony and he signed our autographs and shook our hands, aswell as letting us take a picture with him. I won't ever forget the aura that surrounds Tony when you see him in person. I also had him on Xbox Live, but he was never online. I checked everyday just to ask if he would want to try me at Tony Hawk: RIDE.

Yeah...how about the people he toured with that had to buy their footage from birdhouse if they wanted to use it for themselves? scumbag

Joseph petersen, that’s called business. The videos were property of Birdhouse or whatever he named the production company. If they wanted to market that footage themselves then they need to license it. It’s all part of the contract they signed.

Sellout is suppose to apply to people that sell their principals and compromise their character for a price, not to people that simply get compensated for their work, be it athlete or artist. I never got fans of either that have the attitude of, "it was better when they only appealed to me and our niche audience." Seems odd for fans to not want the stuff they're fans about to succeed and get exposure on a wider scale.

@We Win That's a lame argument. It's not the success that's at fault for love of any craft or skill being diminished, it's the individual. Tony's constantly been opening up skate parks where there were none and making appearances at them along with his other pro-skater friends precisely to give skaters a place to skate and to expose new people to the joys of skateboarding. Tony's done nothing but use his success and image to spread his love for skateboarding around the world. And if that still doesn't please you, I'll just quote Lemmy Kilmister on the subject of artists being criticized as "sell-outs" for being commercially successful, "why should you be penalized for bringing people joy? Screw 'em! Do what you want."

Could NOT agree more.

Nope

You can be a sellout and a failure. Look at Megadeth's Risk album. It bombed.

I never got into the Underground games as much. I’m thinking of buying a PS2 and looking for the original THUG just to see what it was all about.

Florida Man IT WAS AMAZING ALONG WITH AMERICAN WASTELAND

@@dr.floridamanphd thug was the last of the great tony hawk games. You can play pro skaters 1-4 and thug and basically have all the best tony hawk games done.

@@dr.floridamanphd Don't bother, I tried THPS Underground 2 back then and it wasn't as great or leave a big impression like THPS1-THPS4.

American wasteland is up there too

For real. Once you start becoming successful everyone is at your throat. Of course you have your supporters but if people hate on you cause you eating good let em watch.

Hey ninja i came to this video after i saw your live cast :)

Ronaldo114 What about Greg Luzka ? He went with K-Swiss and people call him a Sellout. His stuff didn't sell well at all.

He should apply that idea to his own life and dealing with people like Taz Pappas, he destroyed a fellow professional's career and helped take food away from that family so.....www.solarmovie.is/link/play/4183036/

Stephen Gillis Tas Pappas did it to himself.

100%, just watch the Kardashians backwards money hungry self consumed, idiotic cun#ts, useless excuse for people, Tony worked hard from nothing, doing something that takes real skill and effort, he was humble, a true professional, with honor and dignity.

Good point!

Great fuckin comment.

@@kylebookout1789 Tony came to SA in 1989 , with Ray Barbie, he skated our local ramp, it was an honor to skate with him, that day, he inspired me so much , my 50 50's went to backside 5 O grinds, a backside stand up grind on Vert! He was standing on the bottom of the ramp to the side, signing autographs, I will never forget it, I am 47 years old now.

High Iq

Lol

is that the symbol for a semiconductor? or diode?

He took that money, and put it back into growing skateboarding.

Lol.. "MacDonald's is skatetastic"

Activision owns his name in video games. I don't blame him. He doesn't know how to code video games

TheGrandWhiteFox I love Tony Hawk so much as well, I am gonna spend my $100 just for a street board because I am kinda sick of the lame Penny boards. Tony Hawk has been a huge passion for me, that’s why I love his work so much!

I'm 5 years older than him and HE is one of my heroes .

TheGrandWhiteFox I do not hate Tony but lets not forget the amount of people Duane Peters has influenced as well. I had Dwane influencing many 2-3 times at the large club I had on Friday nights at the T bird. The US Bombs with Dwane on vocals. He is Gen X Punk and over 50 and still PUNK like me.

TheGrandWhiteFox I was just informed the reason he is hated. He played a role in a production that was bad for America. It was an Obamawood production called Sandy Hook released before the ink was dry after he was re elected and needed no more votes. He was Robby Parker in that and failed as an actor.

A good chunk of people here started skating because of the Hawk

Raid Mitch headburg jokes 😂

I don't get how you can be rich but eat the cheap garbage shit from mcdonalds

@@dp271 McDonalds is tasty even if it's garbage. Sometimes you just want McDonalds. Even if you are rich. Bill Gate's favorite burger spot is Dick's in Seattle which is nearly identical to McDonalds.

@@chan4est well if they like it ok, it's not my life but there are so many other things at least equally tasty (in my opinion) which are also way healthier

It’s a shame he doesn’t rep In & Out. haha

^this

so accurate

Same here. I think it would be great to see more people doing flatground freestyle like Mullen did too.

Mullen's video sections were the point you realised all these tricks you've been doing aren't just some make believe video game nonsense, they were invented and executed by a living breathing man. Mullen and Hawk are both legends in their own rights.

Jack Duggan That is so true! When i first played Tony Hawk pro skater i always thought that these tricks were just nothing more than a fantasy. I never thought it was physically possible to do an Ollie, till I saw a video of Rodney free styling on flat. I think if it wasn't for Tony Hawk and many of the other legends that were involved, many kids of today wouldn't be skating.

Can you skate mini ramps of pools?

superman by goldfinger

joshua ha, I couldn’t even Ollie but I liked riding when I was a kid. Couldn’t really do it in my neighborhood 35 years ago though. Too many skate punks.

Bands can lipsync, have ghost writers, have handlers that tell them how to look and act. But for something like Skateboarding, its all Tony out there putting in the hours and putting his body on the line. You cant fake it.

@Whitefright You're the problem. Stop calling rock bands sellouts. It's no different to people calling Tony a sellout. Idiots like you call bands sellouts if they just have their song in a commercial. They're not even in the actual commercial. Instead of being negative and bitter, why not show some support? Be happy that a multi-million dollar company is paying them money to use their song. I've noticed that idiots like you are mainly in the rock, metal, guitar world. I've noticed that pop and rap stars don't seem to get hate for even appearing in the commercial promoting the product. Instead their fans give them praise and are happy for them. Rock and metal fans are some of the most infuriating, narrow minded, hipster mentality pieces of shit. I hope you've grown up a bit since you posted this comment.

@@flannel396 you’re a legend!!!

its not an interview its a rant tbh.

radEmma what a great rant

lifes rad Carlsbad lol

and?

Woah cool

Sand Diego

Jack Ryan a lot of people mentioned the same thing in the comments haha

you must be OCD then

The fact that Tony doesn't care and let the string do its things just sums him up from what he said in the video :)

he flys so fast through the air that its just stuck there. the string knows now not to even bother going back to its regular intended position because it will just end up back over the shoulder when the Hawk soars so it just hangs out on the shoulder now true story

Yes It burns my soul.

JaeOne3345 exactly! If it wasnt for Tony NONE of us would be skating. I grew up skating in the 80s and he was the poster boy for skateboarding. The other Bones crew for sure but Hawk was the face. We owe him a lot. All respect to the Birdman

You'll find the 'haters' would have been his peers who weren't making money like he was.

It is a factual statement that he is a sell out.. Does that mean that people hate him? most the time, no

I don’t hate tony hawk and i like him and yet i’m offended by your comment 😭.

Aimee Frost I don't see it as a negative term really, in my mind it just means that you allow your name to be put on clearly shitty product to make a bunch of money.. And I'm not saying I wouldn't do the same or that he's bad for doing it, I just think it's a fact that he did do it

Mde never dies

+DC3893 Same!!

I gotta pick that up

Hell yeah

2020. I've literally played it for like 200 hours in the past month lol

That’s a humble thing to say

Dude that takes a lot of courage to admit that. He is my favorite skater.

He’s got a few autobiography books. I’ve read two, one on his life and one on his business ventures. Really good books. Rodney Mullen has a auto biography book as well, which is pretty good. I forget the names of the tony hawk ones but the Rodney Mullen on is called “the mutt” or something

You must not have been old enough to have clear memories from the late 80s thru the 90s... this man WAS alternative sporting in America in the 90s. If you didn't like the big sports like football, basketball, baseball, etc.), you probably watched a good amount of skating, and this was the guy would be watching. Insanely skilled technician, balls of steel, almost unprecedent consistency of success in events, and the 2nd most important figure in skating after Mullen. This is the guy who made skateboarding a mainstream event - or at least mainstream enough to receive regular TV coverage. Back in Hawk's day, they broadcast skateboarding a lot more. Everyone wanted to watch Tony Hawk. This guy is a living legend. Usually the term sellout would apply to someone who accepted money from parties with selfish interests AND let the money they took change them for the worse. So what if Hawk got paid and made a fortune for doing what he loves? I wish I could do that. And everyone else does too if we'd all be honest about it. He took big companies money, used to help skateboarding reach WAY more people than it ever had before. And through it all, the guy never changed in the slightest. He's still that same guy who, at his very core, just loves skating.

@@kalorakaloragreat write up. Had to show some love

Yeah hypebeast lol

Spawn Of Satan biggest skateboarding pioneer ever, by miles.

Breakfast from Texas rodney mullen?

Eirik ^.^ rodney mullen is second but not even a close second, tony hawk is known by literally everyone, skater or not, rodney mullen is a real skaters skater

@@chocolatebumhole8904 rodney mullen is the biggest pioneer for streetskating

+Wade WZG I used to snake board dude. But kiteboarding allows me to do much more with boards now. Check out my channel.

Words from the bird himself: "If he can do it, I can do it too, maybe not as stylish or as good, but I can."

DavidParody suh suh g

@@Bocsaphoto ganggang

same ugh

i flipped mine over my left shoulder too

lameeeee

you're missing the point.

Ashby Kueh if u reply to this i will be very happy

And welcome back to tony on x ice

Jim West One step ahead of you, here it is - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZgEbxU5tZu4.html

The Berrics sorry ;((

The Berrics tony is saying the same thing that rodney says in bones brigade documentary...rodney said "it became my voice.."

The Berrics Damn link this at the end of this video.

hahahahaa I forgot he did

patbustatrick he did too ig

They need to make the lair skatepark from that episode somehow

Fuuuck yea, I gotta see that sode again, bruh! Shit was dope!!

I've never had one, are they good?

無料魂 - here it is - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bL4OPAdBzNM.html

i dont want to like cause its at 69 and i hope ppl feel the same way PS i liked it TROLOL

The Berrics

I heard Danny is a complete prick

I heard Danny is a complete prick

Cm901 pro model with stash pocket in tongue forever changed things

Captain Limabean it’s funny cause that’s what happened. Maybe tony didn’t have that in mind. But he’s so genuine and consistent. He’s still making games for skaters, not for gamers to become skaters. lol

It’s not too late 💚

So true

that's how it happened with me. but it was really rodney mullen in the games that got me to research him and go do his thing. now when kids ask me for a game of s.k.a.t.e. they get destroyed by my flatland.

You know you're doing something right when they have rules specific to you while rocking a game of skate, hahahaha.

Exactly ;)

TommioRS Thats what iwas thinking lol! Shout out to RS btw!

Incorrect. You still have to work extremely hard

Xavier Ferguson the point he’s making is that it doesn’t feel like “work” because you’re doing something you love for the rest of your life instead of slaving away and getting paid for doing something you hate.

@@milliefreg Amount doesn't equal work. That's not working.

Depends on whether it's skater owned or not.

@@therealwewin You're an idiot. Is Nyjah a sellout? Nike isn't skater owned

@@therealwewin your exactly the kind of people he talks about in the video 🤦‍♂️

@@RevoltPlays yeah he is actually lol

@@Robby7430 tony didn't save anything. Rodney mullen saved skateboarding. Tony used it to make money. End of story