Move Over, Tony Hawk. There's A New King Of Extreme Sports In Town
When you think about the X Games, your mind immediately goes to Tony Hawk. Plain and simple, cut and dry, he's been the biggest name in extreme sports for 30 years now. There have been a few other athletes who have carried the torch across to a mainstream audience. Guys like Travis Pastrana and Shaun White. But nobody has ever been able to touch Tony Hawk as far as being a household name goes.
That is, of course, until Air Manatee came onto the scene.
Majestic.
First of all, there aren't enough inline rollerbladers out there in the world anymore. Rollerblading hasn't been in the X Games for years and that needs to change immediately. Speaking of things that need to change immediately, we don't see enough units in extreme sports. Not a ton of love for the big boys out there who are just as rad, if not radder, than everybody else out there. We need more big fellas, we need more rollerbladers, we need this legend now more than ever.