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I'm your host and CEO of Sports One Marketing, David Melzer.

All right, this is Dave Melzer,

this Dave Melzer, CEO of Sports One Marketing

for Entrepreneur The Playbook, and I have to to tell you I'm really excited to be here with

Tony Hawk not just because I wanted to be you when I was 12 you're already winning stuff I was you know live close enough and we probably

skated the same parks. I just was too much of a chicken to do what you did when

I think I was just blissfully ignorant. Yeah, you know what, that's good.

You know, let's start there.

You know, skateboarding to me is an analogy or an anomaly to life

is I believe that the thing with success

is that it's we prevent it. And the thing with success is that we prevent it and the thing that prevents

success from happening is fear and our ego-based fear and I think with

skateboarding especially you know it's really an area where how do you learn or is it

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