Throughout the eighties and even still into the nineties skateboarders have been
stereotyped, fined, arrested, and kicked out of places for simply having fun. To many
people this doesn't sound that bad since skateboarders are a bunch of punks and cause
trouble all the time. They smoke pot and get high and do nothing with their lives. These
last two statements could be seen as false since they could be disproven in many ways.
Tony Hawk is a pro skater who has achieved many goals in his life. Many people
won't know him but for the people that followed his career as a skateboarder they would
know that is the "Michael Jordan" of skateboarding. Tony started his career in the
eighties and at that time skateboarding was not too popular with the authorities. He has
dealt with the hardships of being discriminated and rose to the top. He was in the movies
Gleaming the Cube and Police Academy four. He also came up with his own company
which is Birdhouse, and has invented many of the tricks for vert skating, such as the
Madonna and the Bennihaha. This past year in the X-games he landed the impossible, the
900. This trick involves two and a half rotations. I don't think Tony Hawk is a trouble
maker and a punk for skateboarding. I think he is a great role model to many of the other
skaters out there working hard to do well at the sport.
Ed Tempelton is a pro skater for Toy Machine. He has run in with the law for
skating plenty of times. On the Toy Machine Video, Jump off a Building, Ed Tempelton
is shown getting kicked out of some place. Most of the graphics on the bottom of the Toy
Machine decks are painted by Ed as a way to show his artistic ability. He said that he got
into painting because he liked it even though he said his first paintings were crapy. He
said it was better than getting into drugs and that he really doesn't drink. Ed Te
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