![]() ![]() “‘And please don’t tell anyone yet.’” Hawk kept texting: updates about his surgery, his doctor, his hospital bed requests not to say anything to HBO right away promises that he’d still be making it to Austin, Texas, for the film festival. “I got a text that said, ‘Hey, I broke my femur,’” says the film’s director, Sam Jones, over Zoom. ![]() ![]() On March 7, during a routine (for him) Monday skateboarding session, the 53-year-old Hawk landed weirdly on a ramp and broke his femur, the human body’s strongest bone, an incident that would have sucked regardless but was made even worse by the fact that he was days aways from leaving for the SXSW conference to promote a new HBO documentary about his life and times called Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off. “I couldn’t do that a week ago,” he explains. “Just before I got on this interview with you,” he says over Zoom in late March, sitting in front of a decorative wall of skateboards, “I put my socks on, while I’m sitting here, by myself.” He looks slightly spent by the effort, and also relieved. Recently, the action sports icon Tony Hawk accomplished an important physical feat. ![]()
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