Tony Hawk: My worst, life-threatening wipeout

your worst injury to date my worst injury is broken pelvis on November 2003 take me through what happened it was probably worth skating day ever we did a five-week us tour and I was invited to participate in in Wildboyz which is basically a jackass spin-off okay couple of the guys in jackasses like steve-o and give a steve-o and Chris Pontius they were doing it was more animal oriented and they said we have this chimp that can skate and do you guys want to skate with this chimp at um Bob Burnquist who was a fellow pro at his house and I was like yeah that sounds awesome I'll take my kids and see the skiing chimp and so we were chimp costumes and we were skating and bob has a bob has a loop ramp which is you know basically a full 360 you all the way upside down like a roller coaster right which is something that we had on our tour we had a loop ramp on our tour we're doing it every night it was almost like we took it for granted we were so cocky with it it was it became easy so became just sort of this this easy thing for us the problem was bob has this loop that's been out in the weather for years no one rides it because it's frightening to learn how to do it and so it's just different than the one that we were skating and as we were skating doing this stuff through the day said hey we should do the loop I said yeah let's do it and I should have known because my first attempt I started coming off the wall about at 12 o'clock and just fell and nice lived my way through it and it was the problem was the starting ramp was too slow and so I tried to overcompensate on the starting ramp and that sent me into sort of a wrong position for the loop and I ended up shooting out immediately at the loop and flying through the middle of it landing on my on my hip and on my head fractured skull broken pelvis broken thumb knocked out woke up in the ambulance and realized I should not take the loop for granted that one was pretty ugly and definitely life-threatening I hit my head really are and so it took me a full year to gain my confidence back of tricks that I used to take for granted what um because you just feel so fragile and you feel like maybe I'll fall what if I hit what if I hit my hip again what if I knock this loose and every time that I would hit my my hip or my leg at all during that time I could feel that shift in there because the the the fracture was was so deep that I could sort of feel that movement and it just it just gave me pause um it took me a long time for I did nine hundreds aghanim's like that do you wonder even if you feel fine now you know ten years down the line is age if you're gonna I do yeah a little bit but to be honest I've noticed that just staying active is what has kept me the the most limber and the most healthy um if I take any time off for whatever reason even if it's an injury or if it's just food for family purposes getting back is much harder to do and getting in that groove and feeling like I can handle that sort of endurance [Music]

Channel: Graham Bensinger

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Length: 3min 30sec (210 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 19 2016