Skateboard legend Tony Hawk has just nailed a Never Been Done trick; a horizontal loop-the-loop.
For a good while, skateboarders have been hitting loops, but the horizontal kind. Heck last weekend saw The Indestructibles do a full loop on a snowboard.
But, this new loop is different because it’s lying horizontally on its side, meaning that a slip could, and indeed did, see Hawk not just hit the ramp, but also then crash hard down to the floor.
Getting the loop nailed appears pretty punishing on the Birdman. Having never been done before, there was no right way of hitting the loop. Nobody to study. Nobody to learn from. Hawk was breaking painful new ground.
