Sports & Athletics

Get Tactical Sports Skills & Strategies

Improve Your Mental Game

Teaches Skateboarding

Tony Hawk

Meet Tony Hawk, legendary skateboarder and your new instructor. Tony gives an overview of what you’ll learn in his class: basic, intermediate, and advanced skills in street, park, and vert taught by Riley Hawk, Lizzie Armanto, and Tony himself. 

1. Meet Your Instructor

Meet Your Instructor

If you’ve never stepped on a skateboard before, then here’s where you start. Tony walks you through the fundamentals, including pushing, stopping, and turning. 

2. Skills & Techniques

Skills & Techniques

The ollie is an essential trick in skateboarding. Tony goes deep into the nuances of the ollie to help you perfect it. 

3. The Ollie

The Ollie

Get an intimate look at Tony’s journey from a scrawny, bullied kid to a skateboarding icon with a huge fan base.

4. Underdog to Icon

Underdog to Icon

At the peak of his success, Tony nearly loses it all when skateboarding tanks in popularity. Tony opens up about rebuilding his career and how he learned that his love of skateboarding means more to him than the money. 

5. Trials & Tribulations

Trials & Tribulations

Tony teaches you some fundamental street skateboarding tricks: the backside pop shove-it and the frontside ollie 180. 

6. Street Basics

Street Basics

Tony hands the class off to his son Riley Hawk, a top-level street skateboarder. Riley breaks down intermediate and advanced street tricks.

7. Street Intermediate & Advanced

Street Intermediate & Advanced

Sharing pointers about going to a skate park for the first time, Tony demonstrates the basics of carving and dropping in.

8. Park Basics

Park Basics

Lizzie Armanto, one of the world’s top park skaters, takes over from Tony and teaches you intermediate and advanced park tricks.

9. Park Intermediate & Advanced

Park Intermediate & Advanced

Tony takes you through the fundamentals of vert skateboarding, from simple moves like pumping on a vert ramp to how to do his signature trick, the Madonna.

10. Vert Basics & Intermediate

Vert Basics & Intermediate

Learn some of Tony’s advanced signature moves, including the 540 McTwist.

11. Vert Advanced

Vert Advanced

Tony tells the story of the night he landed the 900 at the X Games in 1999.

12. Playback: The 900

Playback: The 900

Get a behind-the-scenes look at Tony’s first successful kickflip McTwist.

13. Playback: The Kickflip McTwist

Playback: The Kickflip McTwist

Tony shares his insider tips on how to stand out in competitive skateboarding and what it takes to win.

14. How to Win

How to Win

Find out how Tony created the iconic video game Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater and how it changed skateboarding. 

15. An Inside Look: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater

An Inside Look: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater

Skateboarding is no longer an outsider’s sport—now it’s going to the Olympics and changing lives for a new generation. Tony shares his final thoughts on what skateboarding has meant to him. 

16. The Future of Skateboarding

The Future of Skateboarding

Tony Hawk Teaches Skateboarding

variant_1

Build in-demand AI skills with a certificate course from MasterClass and top-of-their-field organizations.

Learn AI from the world's best

Enjoy 7 days free

The promo may be over, but your opportunity isn't. Dive into the full experience, worry-free, with our 7-day money-back guarantee.

The offer has ended

Amount charged now

Your 7-day free trial starts today

Get 50% off an annual membership of MasterClass

Congratulations, you purchased an annual standard membership of MasterClass. A confirmation has been sent to your email. You will now be able to access 200+ classes in addition to your Certificate course.

You're all set!

Build practical AI skills that matter. Learn how to think with AI, make better decisions, and prove you’re ready for what’s next.

AI as Your Copilot (4 min)

Prompting: Speak So AI Listens (8 min)

Step inside The Moonshot Factory to see how teams prototype new concepts in hours, pinpoint the riskiest part of any idea, and turn bold thinking into real-world breakthroughs.

This Is Where Bold Begins (12 min)

"What If" Before "What Is" (8 min)

Learn from five former SEALs, including Medal of Honor winner Command Master Britt Slabinski (Ret), and hear how they tackle issues, recognize stress early, and use quick resets to regain composure.

The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense (DoW) visual information does not imply or constitute DoW endorsement.

Intro to High-Stakes Leadership (10 min)

Strategic Readiness Starts With You (6 min)

Learning budgets exist for credentials like this one. Request for your employer to cover your learning costs. Our template lays out the cost, the time commitment, and what you'll bring back to the team so you can send the request in minutes.

Employer Reimbursement

Enroll the whole team in Certificates and enable them to go deeper into in-demand professional topics and earn recognized certifications from experts and institutions they already trust.

Upskill Your Team

Learn how to find product-market fit, choose your next growth bets, and build compounding growth loops from the executives who scaled Uber.

Growing From the Core

Using Feedback to Grow

Become the AI catalyst your organization needs, grounded in Microsoft’s decades of experience turning breakthrough technology into trusted tools that drive measurable results.

Lead With AI: Adapt, Implement & Transform Your Organization

Choosing the Right Work for AI

Learn from negotiators who've trained U.N. diplomats and closed major sports deals to uncover what people really want and reach win-win deals without burning bridges.

Build the Relationship First: Why the Contract Isn't the Deal

Surface the Other Side's Needs

Learn to command a room, read what your audience really needs, and turn hesitation into a confident yes.

Overcoming Objection and Hesitation

Reading People: The Cues That Matter

Make better decisions with AI

Pre-enroll and save 30% on this course. Available Fall 2026.

di-preenrollment

Pre-enroll and save 30% on this AI Strategy course from NVIDIA. 

nvidia-preenrollment

From TIME ©2022 TIME USA LLC. All rights reserved. Used under license.

Times

Wirecutter

Reviewed - USA Today

An Inside Look: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater

Teaches the Runner’s Mindset

Joan Benoit Samuelson

Joan Benoit Samuelson Teaches the Runner’s Mindset

Teaches the Athlete’s Mindset

Wayne Gretzky

Wayne Gretzky Teaches the Athlete's Mindset

Teaches Wilderness Survival

Jessie Krebs

Jessie Krebs Teaches Wilderness Survival

Teaches Gymnastics Fundamentals

Simone Biles

Simone Biles Teaches Gymnastics Fundamentals

Teaches Effective and Authentic Communication

Robin Roberts

Robin Roberts Teaches Effective and Authentic Communication

With Noted Pros

Joe Fortenbaugh

Nick Kostos

Captain Jack Andrews

Gina Fiore

Rob Pizzola

Rufus Peabody

Bet Smart: Top Sports Betting Strategies

Teaches Chess

Garry Kasparov

Garry Kasparov Teaches Chess

Teaches Poker Strategy

Phil Ivey

Phil Ivey Teaches Poker Strategy

Teaches Shooting, Ball-Handling, and Scoring

Stephen Curry

Stephen Curry Teaches Shooting, Ball-Handling, and Scoring

Teaches Mental Strength

Robin Arzón

Robin Arzón Teaches Mental Strength

Teaches a Winning Mindset

Lewis Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton Teaches a Winning Mindset

Teaches Leading Winning Teams

Geno Auriemma

Geno Auriemma Teaches Leading Winning Teams

Teach Rock Climbing

Alex Honnold & Tommy Caldwell

Alex Honnold & Tommy Caldwell Teach Rock Climbing

Teaches Tennis

Serena Williams

Serena Williams Teaches Tennis

The Greatest of All Time

Angie Mar

Charles Gabriel

Quie Slobert

Stefano Secchi

Dale Harris

Tony Gemignani

Nancy Silverton

Jeni Britton

Melineige Beauregard

Chris Guinto

Wallace Wong

Anna Leigh Waters

Joy Mangano

GOAT

Teaches Values-Driven Leadership

Coach K

Coach K Teaches Values-Driven Leadership

Menu

What’s in every MasterClass membership?

Skills You'll Learn

Download