Tony Hawk

A new HBO documentary dives into the impressive career of professional skateboarder Tony Hawk, and how his legacy was created. “Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels ...

The documentary begins with Hawk’s family life, and how he was first introduced to skateboarding. The documentary is available on HBO Max. You can watch HBO shows and movies through Hulu + Live TV and Amazon Prime. You can sign up for a 7-day free Hulu trial (afterward Hulu costs $5.99/month) and then add HBO on as an extra for $14.99/month. If you have an Amazon Prime membership, it’s the same exact deal as Hulu. “Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off” premieres on HBO Tuesday, April 5 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The documentary is available on HBO Max. You can also watch it on Hulu + Live TV (free trial) or Amazon Prime as an add-on.

"Until the Wheels Fall Off" brings home Hawk's obsessive quest, scientific mind and the pitfalls of fame and fortune.

Accompanied by the soundtrack of Hawk’s youth — pulsating punk rock from the Sex Pistols, the Clash, Stiff Little Fingers, Buzzcocks, Joy Division and Toy Dolls — footage of Hawk’s early competitive efforts return viewers to the 1980s and since-demolished skateboard parks in Del Mar and Upland. The latter was home to a terrifying, steep-bowled pool and the training ground of the teen’s top competitors. Pat, the second of Hawk’s three older siblings, connects painful dots relating to her mother’s comment at the time that Tony, born more than a decade after each sibling, was a mistake. “Tony does not tire of repetition.” “I wasn’t ready to commit to that spin.” I’m going to anesthetize with this. Hawk’s singular focus and fearlessness at mastering new tricks astonished even fellow professional skateboarders.

Tony Hawk's life is the focus of a new documentary streaming on HBO Max.

And I think kids all over the world should have access to try." In terms of competition, that's a whole other can of worms and all I can lend is my experience, but also to say, 'Hey, embrace the support that they give now. He's also looking at the next generation of skaters and has his eyes on a few of them. And obviously, I know the outcome, but when the whole theater erupted in applause when I did it, it was emotional." "I was around the entire time, and I used to see Tony skate in 1983 at Del Mar," Jones says. We were expected to perform at the top at the highest level," Hawk explains. I feel like skateboarding itself can be so beneficial to your mental health because it'll teach you so much about what you're capable of and finding your own path. And to never lose sight of that. He continues, "There were a lot of people that came out of those years, addicted to drugs with a lot of mental health issues, and not everyone made it through. ... And to his credit … He just tried his best to answer everything. With that achieved, he says his new goal is to be able to skate again at his Weekend Jam event in Las Vegas, May 12 through 14. The documentary features never-before-seen footage, and interviews with Hawk and prominent figures in the sport including Stacy Peralta, Rodney Mullen, Sean Mortimer, and Christian Hosoi.

'Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off,' debuts on HBO and HBO Max on Tuesday (April 5) at 9 p.m. ET.

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In his personal life, Tony has been married four times. His first three marriages ended in divorce, which Tony has blamed on his busy career. “Each marriage was ...

After three divorces, Tony is now happily married to Catherine Goodman. Catherine, a British artist who grew up in London, married Tony on June 27, 2015. Tony gushed over his daughter in the Sydney Morning Herald interview. Spencer works as an electric musician under the stage name Gupi. Tony and Erin got divorced in 2004 after eight years of marriage. His first three marriages ended in divorce, which Tony has blamed on his busy career. Riley, now 29, has followed in his father’s footsteps and become a professional skateboarder. In his personal life, Tony has been married four times.

Director Sam Jones' documentary Tony Hawk: Until The Wheels Fall Off is a remarkable look not just at Hawk, but at the last few generations of skateboarding ...

But that wasn’t the case with some of Hawk’s most famous moments, which came from failing, failing, failing, trying again, failing, trying again, and then eventually landing it. And a great aspect of Until The Wheels Fall Off is how it doesn’t solely center on Hawk’s own perspective. But many of those riders said later they now realize how much value Frank brought to the sport, and how he helped lift it further into the mainstream. And that’s also the case with Hawk’s arena tours and videogames; yes, he’s been the biggest name there, but each of those have helped to elevate many other skateboarders into the public consciousness. And while none of us in the audience will likely ever be able to do what Hawk can on a skateboard, there’s a lot to relate to in his roller-coaster ups and downs (from high-flying international star in the 80s to broke in the 90s to rock star in the late 90s and early 2000s) and in the challenges he’s found in life. “I think watching Tony learn and fall is more interesting than watching him land tricks, because you can see how fast he rifles through something called the calculus of variations, how he corrects himself and gets to the right spot fast. Part of what’s so interesting about Until The Wheels Fall Off is from other skateboarding figures’ assessments of Hawk. There are a lot of good ones contained in this two-hour, 15-minute film, including one from Mullen on what makes Hawk stand out. The Tony Hawk name is a great way to get casual viewers in the door, and his own story is fascinating and is the main focus of this film, but this also can be seen as somewhat of a whole history of skateboarding over the last few decades. And HBO documentary Tony Hawk: Until The Wheels Fall Off ( premiering Tuesday night at 9 p.m. ET/PT on HBO, also available to stream on HBO Max) is a strong indication of that. And they’ve done an amazing job of selecting a great group of films in that category. And it’s interesting and notable that they’ve been able to do that. Absolutely, Hawk has had an amazing run in his own right, winning countless contests in the 80s and 90s, becoming the first to land a 900 in competition in 1999, launching arena tours after that, lending his name to (and doing motion-capture and consulting work for) an incredibly popular video game series, and helping get skateboarding into the Olympics and then advocating for today’s skateboarders on NBC Olympic coverage.

Tony Hawk, who's considered the greatest skateboarder, is the subject of a new documentary. With a reported net worth of $140 million.

It’s not some great bread and butter for me, but I love the connection, and I love the reaction to it, and I love having that one-on-one with people who are fans or people who are giving it to people who are fans. I just saw him coming up the stairs and he was talking to a friend of mine and I was like, “Oh my god, Wesley Snipes, I have an opportunity to get a picture with him. My favorite part of the night was walking on stage because I never thought I’d be on that stage and I walked unaided without a cane, so that was exciting. It’s hard for me to believe that my presence or a video of me would impact someone like that. Someone sent me a video of their husband watching it and he started crying. I think that’s the takeaway, for me, is that “all this hard work, all this repetition, in the end, is worth it. And then I think the second most exciting was meeting Wesley Snipes because we have this kind of meme thing, and he didn’t know about it. A lot of times I will literally just jolt myself up and be like, “Okay, write that down because you’re going to forget it.” And I honestly haven’t gotten sick in a long time. Tony Hawk, who’s widely considered the greatest skateboarder of all time, is the subject of a new documentary, “Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off,” which premieres on HBO and HBO Max on April 5. “I immediately go get some coffee and start checking messages, emails, checking the pulse out there on social media, what’s the buzz?” says the professional skateboarder, 53. Hawk was a high-energy kid and skateboarding became an outlet for him.

Here's a collection curated by The Associated Press' entertainment journalists of what's arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. MOVIES. • Tony Hawk may not have seemed the most obvious Academy Awards presenter but he does ...

• Celebrities try to stump each other with stories that may or may not be true in CW’s “Would I Lie To You?” based on a hit British series of the same name. “Tokyo Vice,” debuts Thursday with three episodes on the streaming service, with two episodes released on subsequent Thursdays until the April 28 finale. • Andrea Arnold, the British director of “American Honey” and “Fish Tank,” is among the most vibrant filmmakers working today.

Sam Jones's HBO Max documentary on the skating legend centers on what it looks like to be a pioneer in a progressive endeavor—and how it feels when the ...

(Riley is now 29 and a pro skateboarder in his own right; his latest video is titled “ Nepotism.”) “It was this moment in life,” Hawk says in the film, “where I was like, ‘What am I doing?!’” The gap between the quotidian responsibilities of fatherhood—Hawk is now a father of four—and the untethered abandon of Hawk’s vocation feels as enormous as one of his vertical ramps. In terms of his own personal milestones, Hawk continues, “Today, I was able to put both my pant legs on without having to drag them across the floor.” There was also the success with the socks. “We’re never in the same place with them.” To Jones, the constraints and contradictions of parenthood and legacies are key to the film. On the day he got hurt, Hawk had taken note of his speed, but “I just sort of went into that mode of ‘Oh, I can do it, I can snap it fast, it’s OK,’” he says. “It’s always something ridiculous like that—or the whole thing is Jell-O.” It’s easy to look at someone like Hawk and see recklessness and a complete disregard for risk, but that isn’t the case. According to Hawk, Peralta “did first call my wife,” with his concerns, which Hawk says was a smart move: “The sort of hierarchy of who I’m going to take advice from,” he says, “starts with her.” Peralta also called Hawk’s brother, and Mortimer, and then Hawk directly. “I couldn’t afford a Video Toaster system,” he says of the tech at the time, “but they asked me to do a promotional video for them and they offered me a Video Toaster in return. He hired a drone racer to navigate the device, via a VR controller, above and beneath and around Hawk as he skated one day—“we all had to hide,” Jones said, “because the drone saw everything”—a gambit that drew blood only once, when signals got crossed and the drone crashed into Hawk. During a trip to Japan in the ’80s, he bought a high-end camcorder that wasn’t available in the U.S. “All the instructions were in Japanese,” he says. “There’s some [old] footage,” says Jones, “that we didn’t end up using in the film, but at one point Stacy put a camera on a cable and tried to shoot overhead, and Tony comes up at one point and hits the camera.” Watching some of the other old camera work, like some super slo-mo shots of Hawk, inspired Jones to try something newfangled of his own in Until the Wheels Fall Off: drone shots. As a youth, Jones sometimes crossed paths with Hawk at skate parks, and he always felt a kinship with the shrimpy lad: “I was a scrawny, skinny kid that was years from development when other kids were hitting puberty and all that,” Jones says. Told with an appreciative apprehension reminiscent of other extreme-athlete documentaries like 2010’s The Birth of Big Air and 2013’s McConkey, Jones’s Until the Wheels Fall Off is about what it looks like to be a pioneer in a progressive endeavor, and about how it feels when the glory of weightlessness gives way to the dread of the void.

Here's a collection curated by The Associated Press' entertainment journalists of what's arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.

• Celebrities try to stump each other with stories that may or may not be true in CW’s “Would I Lie To You?” based on a hit British series of the same name. “Tokyo Vice,” debuts Thursday with three episodes on the streaming service, with two episodes released on subsequent Thursdays until the April 28 finale. • Andrea Arnold, the British director of “American Honey” and “Fish Tank,” is among the most vibrant filmmakers working today.