Maybe "popular" isn't the correct word, maybe "mainstream" is? To illustrate, people far removed from the skateboarding crowd see me with a skateboard and joki

Maybe "popular" isn't the correct word, maybe "mainstream" is? To illustrate, people far removed from the skateboarding crowd see me with a skateboard and jokingly refer to me as either "Tony Hawk" or "Marty McFly", not because of any resemblance in skill mind you (I'm not even doing vert, and even then, I can barely heelflip) but because these are the people that conjure images of skateboarding to them, whereas they of course have no idea who Mullen is. In that sense Tony Hawk has entered pop culture like no other skateboarder has. > As I said I have no idea what is happening now. There's another revival in progress. The scene is getting incredibly more diverse. See Killian Martin's videos by Bret Novak, very dance like, awesome filming and storytelling. There are more women that ever, which is way overdue. There are old skaters still skating. There are both old and new skaters aiming for a healthy lifestyle. The "old, rebellious way" is still there, it's just not the only way to be a skateboarder anymore.