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San Francisco (AFP) - Being shot in both eyes and completely blinded didn't stop Zion Ricks-Gaines from skateboarding. It made him want to do it even more. "I still want to go pro, I still want to accomplish being a professional skateboarder," the 19-year-old said as he readied a kickflip at a skatepark in San Francisco. And now he wants to share that enthusiasm with everyone he meets. "I want to start more skate after-school programs for students. I feel like I wouldn't have really looked in that direction if I had my sight." Zion's life was derailed outside a bar late last year when a man wh...
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Houston (AFP) - Wheels whir and clatter as Jerahn Thomas and his skateboarding friends land tricks on the streets of downtown Houston, each success bringing broad smiles to their faces. Passers-by at nearby taco stands seem oblivious to their skill -- but it doesn't matter to Thomas. "What we've been through those last months, that's history in the making," the 25-year-old, dressed in a beanie, hoodie and glasses, told AFP on a recent Friday in January. The reason for his excitement? Thrasher, the iconic skateboarding magazine, recently confronted a historic image of whiteness in his sport by ...
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Tony Hawk may be 52 years old, but he is showing that he still has the skateboarding skills. In a recent video posted to Twitter, Hawk pulled off a successful 720 on a skateboard. The 52-year-old wrote about the feat saying, “I recently made a 720 and it was a battle.” In that same tweet, the legendary skateboarder wrote about how difficult it was to pull off the maneuver. “The last one I made before this was over three years ago, and it’s much harder now all things considered: recently dislocated fingers hinder my grab, my spin is slower, so I need to go higher for full rotation,” Hawk explai...
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