Skateboard used by Tony Hawk to complete his last 900
date: label: date made
content: 2016
name: label: user
content: Hawk, Tony
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Skateboard used by professional skateboarder Tony Hawk to complete his last 900 is a birdhouse design with Independent trucks and three green, Tony Hawk Skate Park Formula wheels and one white Hawk SPF 60 wheel. The top surface is covered in black grip tape and the bottom surface is green with a golden bird design in the center. There is a green Independent sticker a black and white birdhouse sticker on each end of the board. A "900" is a skate trick in which the skater completes 2 1/2, 360 degree revolutions on the skateboard while in mid air. Hawk began competing at age 12 and turned pro at 14. He is an innovative vert skater competing in 103 competitions before he was 25 and was the first to land a 900 in competition. In 1999, Hawk created the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater video game franchise which became one of the most popular video games in history. Hawk retired in 1999 but continues to skate in exhibitions and demos and the Tony Hawk Foundation has funded over $5 million to over 550 skatepark projects throughout the world.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: name of sport
content: skateboarding
label: level of sport
content: Professional
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Sports & Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Tony Hawk
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2019.0311.01
label: accession number
content: 2019.0311
label: catalog number
content: 2019.0311.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: skateboard
label: Object Name
content: skateboard
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: urethane (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 32 in x 8 in x 5 1/2 in; 81.28 cm x 20.32 cm x 13.97 cm