![]() He experienced an unprecedented kind of fame and lavished in the wonderful parties and brain-rewiring drugs that are its spoils. For nearly a decade, Hosoi was held up as an example of what happens when you fly too high. His almost masochistic sense of discipline has guaranteed him continued success as a skater, board and apparel manufacturer, occasional actor, and video game pioneer. He is the most famous skateboarder of all time. ![]() He was the one with the swagger to pull off women’s jeans, hair extensions, and the blasphemous nickname “Christ.” Tricks are for kids. Christian Hosoi was the natural, the very definition of style, the one who seemed to be carving full sentences into the cement with his perfect runs. Hawk was the one who sought a virtuosic, straight-A’s kind of perfection, an uptight kid who seemed too busy collecting trophies and devising new tricks to truly dream. ![]() For those who appreciated craft and technique, there was Tony Hawk - diligent, inventive, a gangly mess of limbs and kneepads capable of retracting into a perfect, spinning sphere. ![]() Among skateboarders in the 1980s, there were but two choices. ![]() All great sporting rivalries are really conversations about style, philosophy, what it means to live the good life. ![]()
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