Most of us don’t decide our lifelong-career when we’re nine years old – but then again, most of us aren’t Tony Hawk. Born in San Diego, California in 1968, an elementary school age Tony was first drawn to skating while watching his 21-year-old brother. “I was nine years old and my older brother was skating in the alleyway,” Hawk recalls of the first time he saw a board, ” I asked him if I could ride it and he said, yeah, but you can only ride that board over there – and his old board became my first skateboard.”
