Tony Hawk was nine years old when his brother changed his life by giving him a blue fiberglass banana board.. He was the terrible youth ... So he think her mom summed it up best when she said, 'challenging.'"When Tony was six his mom took him to an Olympic size pool.His frustration with himself was so harsh that his parents had him psychologically evaluated at school.Luckily, for those around, Tony's brother, Steve, supplied the answer to his sibling's brain/body problem-he gave him a skateboard. But Tony was still beating himself up If he didn't skate his best ...By twelve, Tony was sponsored by Dogtown skateboards, by fourteen he was pro, and by age sixteen Tony Hawk was the best skateboarder in the world...Unfortunately, being the world champion of skateboarding doesn't necessarily translate into financial security.A smaller ramp was wedged between his house and his pool...The next few years ripped by in a blur of financial uncertainty and personal eruptions. He sold the Fallbrook house and the Lexus and in 1992 Cindy gave birth to their son, Riley.In 1996 he married Erin Lee, and bought a new house with a new pool with a new waterfall.In 2002, Tony launched the Boom Boom HuckJam, a 24-city arena tour featuring the world's best skateboarders, BMX bike riders and Motocross lunatics performing choreographed routines on a million-dollar ramp system, while punk and hip hop music plays. The hugely successful (and massively publicized) HuckJam tour has sold out arenas across the country every year since its inception and even been featured as a Happy Meal at McDonalds.
