![]() Granted, his name is in the title, and Jones keeps the majority of the film’s two-hour runtime centered on Hawk as a human being. Tony Hawk, Pro(filed) Skater: Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off is a curious beast, an intimately assembled documentary about the psychology of its subject, and by extension his entire cohort of daredevils. What fuels someone like Hawk to keep sacrificing his body for the chance at a twice-in-a-lifetime flip? Over the course of two hours, Jones interrogates this question, charting Hawk’s youth as a child skating prodigy, his difficult relationship with an emotionally distant father, and his fellow aging boarders of the Bones Brigade to find out just what keeps them all on the board, even when their cartilage has all but run out. ![]() His body slams into the wood with concussive force every time, occasionally hurting enough to make him scream in pain. When we first see him in the opening minutes of Sam Jones’ doc Until the Wheels Fall Off, we see exactly why: The skateboarding titan, still the face of the sport even in his fifties, tries and tries again to pull a 900 - the borderline-impossible skate trick he miraculously pulled off at the 1999 X Games - only to eat shit on each attempt. The Pitch: The secret to Tony Hawk‘s success is his willingness to fail. ![]()
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