File this under: things that make you feel old and devoid of talent.
For a certain generation, say, suburban twenty-somethings who owned at least one title from the Tony Hawk’s video game franchise and slept on bedding made from an assortment of SMP belts and burnt copies of the Up In Smoke tour DVD, Hawk’s game clinching ‘900’ at the ’99 X-Games just might be the most enduring skateboarding image of the 90s.
Over a decade later and Tom Schaar has one upped the icon with the world’s first 1080, a half revolution more than Tony could muster in his prime at a shocking one third of his current age. The 12 year old (I’ll just let you process that for a minute) completed the feat last week while skating the MegaRamp at Woodward West action sports camp in Tehachapi, California. After just five attempts, half of which Hawk required, Scharr created history with three whole revolutions and not a frogstomp or hand drag in sight. As Andre 3000 might say, so fresh and so clean, clean.
Watch below and just quietly think about how you’ll never be as good at anything as this 12 year old is at spinning on a skateboard.
