If you want to see some crazy skateboarding ramps, keep your eye on Tony Hawk’s Boom Boom Huck Jam tour. If you don’t know who Tony Hawk is, he’s the first person to land a 900 on a skateboard. Here’s what the Boston Herald says about him:
“Calling Tony Hawk the Michael Jordan of skateboarding would be an insult to Hawk.”
This tour has some of the world’s best skateboarders, BMX bikers and motocross riders absolutely destroying some of the biggest and baddest custom skateboarding ramps ever created. Hawk himself called it the “best ramp system on earth.”
Here’s an excerpt from Tony Hawk’s interview with the Boston Herald.
Herald: The ramp system you built for this tour is enormous. As a kid growing up in California, would it have blown your little mind to see something like this?
Hawk: Oh, yeah. There was nothing like this. For one thing, no one could afford to build anything like it and no one would have believed that it could be part of a self-sustaining national tour. I had to drop almost 2 million dollars into the system. That was the moment of truth, writing the check to build these ramps. In the end I realized, well, regardless what happens with the tour, I now own the best ramp system on earth. Ask any skater and they’ll back me up.
Where do you put it when it’s not in use?
The ramp was the driving force behind me buying an office building in San Diego to put all my businesses in. When I first looked at the plans for the building, I had to have the architects raise the roof a few feet so it could house the thing.
If you want to read the whole article about Tony Hawk and his tour of insane skateboarding ramps you can read it here.
