Between Boardslides and Burnout: My Notes from the Road

Editorial Reviews. From Publishers Weekly. Beneath a scrim of grungy, distressed-looking design motifs, skateboarding superstar Hawk presents a tour diary of.
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Home Contact Us Help Free delivery worldwide. Description A leading professional skateboarder presents journal entries and tour photographs of his life on the road and in competitions. People who viewed this also viewed. Elon Musk Ashlee Vance. People Like Me Lynn Ruane. Convenience Store Woman Sayaka Murata. Going Solo Roald Dahl.

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I chose to read this particular book because I had read it when I was in elementary school and now that I am much older and have a better understanding of concepts stricter and other literacy subjects I wanted to test my knowledge and see if I what I could not have seen when I was elementary school. I basically wanted a different perspective on this book.

I find that this book shows us the true stories and feelings of being on the road most of your life and touring around like a band essentially. The theme I found in this book was Life on the road has its ups and downs.

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I found textual evidence here "I did not know who pink was until I got there. In summary of it all the book goes deep into the life of Tony Hawk on the road and that he had his up and down for the entire trip but it was fun and would not trade his job for anything else.

I also saw some new terms such as sketchy " Then in reading some of the reviews I had to agree with one of them it was " I am personally a Tony Hawk fan and loves this book because it gives a real understanding of the person under the skate boarding star.


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So in conclusion if you like Tony Hawk then this is the book for you I would recommend this to any Tony Hawk fan. TJHS 12th grade student. This book is a diary about Tony Hawk's world in the year The brutal life of being on the road, non-stop commitments while preforming, touring, entering events and competitions, filming movies and TV shows. He takes you on a visual tour to the X-games, his store grand opening, the Gigantic Skatepark Tour, Ocean Beaches skatepark Design, getting his Lifetime Achievement Award and many more appearances!

I am a young girl and I thought it was a little hard to read because of all the skateboard terms that I was not aware of.

Between Boardslides and Burnout: My Notes from the Road

I found it interesting and quickly learned what a flip to fakie was, a varial heelflip melon to fakie, stalefish , and a kickflip varial indy , with some of them named after his favorite stars. I would recommend this book to any avid skateboarder that is aware of skateboard tricks and the names of them. I gave this book 4 stars because I love Tony Hawk and his inspiration that he gives others. He is an example of being a true friend, co-worker, father and husband.

He is very grateful for all that he has and knows that it is his fans that have got him where he is today. This book is full of great photo's and awesome tricks! A must read for any Tony Hawk Fan! But the setting is probably in California because thats the state that mostly appears in the pages. The conflick of the story is that Tony hardly gets to see his family because he is a professional skateboarder and he is also famous. He is always traveling around the world.

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Sometimes when he has some extra time in his schedual he can visit his faily for a couple of days. The plot of the story is that it first talked about Tony Hawk's 6 grade teacher. Next he filmed for the movie The New Guy. Tony had to do a stunt on a ramp. One person found this helpful. Tony is a big inspiration to many people including me. So, if your child wants to read something that shows how much work they should put into a day, they should read this book and see how much Tony works for people every day.

Between Boardslides and Burnout My Notes from the Road

Anyone who likes skateboarding should buy this book. This book displayed an exuberant amount of beauty and color about skateboarding as it is.


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He has been my idol since I first learned to walk and after reading this book it has brought up my hopes of being a carnie. I beleive whoever reads this book will have the same opinion. It has changed my life's perspective on how tennis players are so awesome!! This book is really good. It has a lot of cool color pictures. If you dont like skateboarding dont get this book because it is about skateboarding.