Video Games

Although professional sports leagues have existed for a long time, they are limited to elite athletes, and mainly to team sports with strict rules and regulations. Other avenues, such as extreme sports, appeared in the 1990s and acquired worldwide notoriety with the Extreme Sports channel that led the X-Games. They have been qualified as extremes due to the much higher probability of suffering injuries. One of these sports, of course, was skateboarding. Any skier who aims to be the best must accept the certainty of injuries, because their arena is in the streets around them. For a skater, the term concrete jungle takes on a completely painful meaning. The flapped knees and elbows are the youngest of their concerns. Avoiding fractures or concussions is like winning the lottery. In this sport came Tony Hawk. Known as Birdman, he became the first skateboarder to make a 900 - which means making two and a half revolutions in the air. As a dominant skateboard force, Hawk has transposed thi...