Tony Hawk Man X Lands A 900 For Charity
October 19, 2009 – 8:41 pm PT by MeTags: 900, Johnny Knoxville, Perry Farrell, Standup For Skateparks, Terry Kennedy, Tony Hawk Foundation —
Blink-182 is a band who have had their trials and tribulations throughout the years enduring everything from the SKANKING punk scene, to the EMO LACE punk scene. They’ve broken up and now they’re back together. Johnny Knoxville has shot straight to the top of Hollywood but then fell to the midrange level, especially after his work on THE RINGER. Perry Farrell is known mostly for his work with JANES ADDICTION and for creating the highly anticipated, highly overpriced even Lalapalooza. And you can find Terry Kennedy and Paul Rodriguez together anywhere and everywhere. Unless JEREME ROGERS is around. I don’t know if they still like him.
But who’s the one person that can bind all of these famous celebrities together? Who else but the Hawk Man X himself, Tony Hawk. Having played the Tony Hawk Foundation’s first benefit in 2004, the re-united blink-182 took a break from their current North American tour to honor Tony’s invitation to perform at the sixth-annual Tony Hawk: RIDE Presents Stand Up for Skateparks event. But blink-182 wasn’t the only great comeback story of the day—Tony also landed the elusive 900 during a vert demo that saw contest-winning performances by Hawk and fellow skaters Bucky Lasek, Pierre-Luc Gagnon, Andy Macdonald, Lincoln Ueda, and Kevin Staab, plus BMXers Simon Tabron and Coco Zurita, as well as some ramp-top cheerleading from Tom Green and Fred Durst.
The sixth-annual Tony Hawk: RIDE Presents Stand Up For Skateparks benefit returned to the exclusive Green Acres estate in Beverly Hills, California to raise critical funds for the Tony Hawk Foundation’s mission to bring free, quality public skateparks to youth in low-income areas across the U.S. But that’s where the resemblance to previous Stand Up events ends. In addition to the amazing Vert Demo and blink-182 performance, the family-centric action-sports carnival featured all-new games, activities, plus unique auction items like a “Hawkized” 2010 Ford Mustang GT customized by Galpin Auto Sports and DUB. Guests mingled with stars like Tommy Lee, Tom Green, Danny Way, Victoria Beckham, Chris “Big Black” Boykin, Jon Favreau, Mat Hoffman, Chuck Liddell, Terry Kennedy, Fred Durst, Johnny Knoxville, Travis Barker, Erik Estrada, Verne Troyer, Tom DeLonge, Perry Farrell, David Spade, Mark Hoppus, Paul Rodriguez, Jr., and event emcee Sal Masekela.
A highlight of the day was the Pledge Drive for a skatepark project in the Watts district of Los Angeles. The Tony Hawk Foundation has joined with Wasserman Media Group, California Skateparks, and Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn to launch the project at the event with a fundraising Pledge Drive. Several youth from Watts joined Tony on-stage, where he led the effort and generated $43,500 in pledges for the project, which will be built in the shadow of the world-famous Watts Towers landmark
