![]() I was surprised no one else had asked you about it. But for the first time in an official interview-here’s my attempt at getting Tony’s side. I’ll leave it to you to decide what the truth is. While there might always be three sides to every story, only two of them can ever actually be true. ![]() Without taking anything from the heartbreaking string of events described in the film from Tas’ battle to finally make the 900, Ben’s murder/suicide, and even the loss of Tas’ father discussion of the film’s subplot, where somehow Tony Hawk and all of skateboarding has conspired to keep Tas out of the ’99 X-Games Best Trick contest-has continued to grow unabated-almost eclipsing the documentary itself as people on social media and message boards worldwide debate the “facts” surrounding the world’s first 900. By now, as most of you probably know-the film chronicles the tragic and important story of Tas and Ben’s rise to stardom and subsequent fall-one that would leave Ben Pappas and his girlfriend dead while leaving Tas to live in a private hell of his own making-before ultimately finding redemption and crawling back up to tell his story. ![]() The opening quote to last year’s Tas and Ben Pappas documentary by Vice Films was rather telling. Tony’s lands on his first 900 before breaking his rib.
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