Some good points, glad someone posted this. I went down a rabbit hole of Tony Hawk videos and interviews a couple years ago, including some in-depth ones where

Some good points, glad someone posted this. I went down a rabbit hole of Tony Hawk videos and interviews a couple years ago, including some in-depth ones where he talks the history of the sport in general and his history with it, and it's fascinating. As a sport it's been much more unstable than something like football or baseball, always expanding and contracting as laws and cultural attitudes change. Lot more room for innovation too though. And man, after watching three or four interviews with the guy, you really get an appreciation for how chill he is.