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Playing the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater remaster and learning to skateboard at 31 – Polygon
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 was released in September, a remaster of the two original skateboarding hit titles. I’m learning to skateboard at age 31 while playing the series and watching HBO’s Betty. Here’s what I’ve learned.
The first day I wore my oversized Volcom hoodie to school, a floppy-haired boy with torn-up shoes told me I couldnt wear it. He asked me, Do you even skate?
No, I didnt skate. When I got home, I put the hoodie in my closet next to a pair of bright white DC-brand skate shoes and left it there. If this sounds like a meme, thats because it is. Do you even skate? was the rallying cry of real skateboarders in the 90s and early 2000s, a way to weed out the posers. The people, like me, who approached …
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