Tony Hawk, the master of skateboarding

Tomorrow, May 12 is the birthday of what has been the best Skater of the world: Tony Hawk, who has popularized the sport more than he could do on their day Bart Simpson.

Surely the world has lost a great scientist, for eight years, a psychologist who visited their parents due to problems of hyperactivity was told that an adult mind in a child's body. Instead of enhancing their understanding in fields of science or similar, Tony Hawk gave the world one of the best stories of skateboarding.

At age 9 he was given the first skateboard and three years later had won his first tournament, turning professional at the tender age of 14 years. But the height of his career, despite all the tournaments won, would in 1999, when he managed to make a 900 (two and a half turns in the air) after 11 failed attempts. The best he could say when I got was: "It was the best feeling of my entire life."

More than 10 competitions and won countless tricks invented by him raised to the altars to Tony Hawk, who has popularized the sport of skateboarding to the absolute limits, appearing in the best cartoon series in history, The Simpsons, but also in some movie as Police Academy 4, playing a young skater. He has also appeared in numerous video games that bear his name, which shares the bill with other skateboard greats as Steve Caballero, Bucky Lasek, Eric Koston, Bam Margera and Elissa Steamer.