Tag: Skateboarder

Chipped Writing from a Skateboarder’s Lens


Free Download Chipped: Writing from a Skateboarder’s Lens by José Vadi
English | April 16, 2024 | ISBN: 1593767552 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 2.9 MB
A memoir-in-essays about how skateboarding re-defines space, curates culture, confronts mortality, and affords new perspectives on and off the board

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Hawk Occupation Skateboarder


Free Download Sean Mortimer, "Hawk: Occupation: Skateboarder"
English | 2001 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 0060958316, 0060198605 | EPUB | 15,8 mb
For Tony Hawk, it wasn’t enough to skate for two decades, to invent more than eighty tricks, and to win more than twice as many professional contests as any other skater.It wasn’t enough to knock himself unconscious more than ten times, fracture several ribs, break his elbow, knock out his teeth twice, compress the vertebrae in his back, pop his bursa sack, get more than fifty stitches laced into his shins, rip apart the cartilage in his knee, bruise his tailbone, sprain his ankles, and tear his ligaments too many times to count.No.He had to land the 900. And after thirteen years of failed attempts, he nailed it. It had never been done before.

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