托尼·霍克：滑板是一门艺术

⊙ By Tony Hawk

翻译：Wendy

托尼·霍克：滑板是一门艺术

⊙ By Tony Hawk

翻译：Wendy

Tony Hawk: Skating Is an Art Form

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他是一个滑板天才，曾发明了几十个滑板动作，获得数不清的冠军，是美国人尽皆知的滑板巨星、极限运动高手。2009年，他应奥巴马总统之邀到白宫表演，这是滑板第一次被允许进入白宫。但他的身份并不限于此。他为推广滑板运动曾举办把极限运动和摇滚结合在一起的活动巡演，与电脑游戏开发商合作推出多款广受欢迎的滑板游戏，打造了一个规模庞大的滑板帝国。他还成立基金会，出资在低收入地区建造滑板场所。熟悉极限运动的同学可能已经猜到了，他就是本期《名人密码》的主人公——托尼·霍克。

My Love for Skating

As far as I’m concerned, like, when I started skating, I always felt that there was something to skating that people weren’t seeing. They were just looking at the1)hairdos and the music and the fact that it was2)outlawed everywhere. But they weren’t seeing the physical act of it as being something unique and something special. And I always felt like skating gave me the sense of self-confidence that I never had. And it’s sort of this art form and a sport, and I just feel like people have finally come to realize all that, and so, yes, I’m surprised it’s that big, but part of me is like, “What took you so long to figure it out?” You know, skating has always been amazing.

3)Basically I…my brother gave me his old board. I started riding down the4)driveway, and I remember yelling back at him, “How do I turn?” And then I just basically ran into the wall and picked the thing up, turned it around and went back. And so, I would get it out every once in a while, and my friends in my neighborhood were skating, and then, I think it was once I got to the skate park, and I fell into that5)mode of “Oh, you can skate these bowls, you can skate these5)transitions.” And when I saw a picture of a guy doing an7)aerial out of a pool, an empty swimming pool, that’s when I said, “I wanna do that. I wanna learn how to do that.”

My Difficult Time

I was dealing with two8)mortgages. I was just starting a family. I was still trying to skate and, basically, like, doing everything I could to make skating a career still. I really9)pulled back on all expenses, and I was eating10)Top Ramen, and11)Taco Bell, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for a good two years.

I think the lowest point in that time for me was agreeing to do exhibitions in amusement park parking lots for $100 a day, three shows a day, and traveling to St. Louis or to Dallas to go do that and staying there for five days to do that. I mean, that was12)literally just to pay the bills, ’cause it wasn’t something I was necessarily enjoying.

Skateboarding Video Games

1) hairdo ['heəduː] n. 发型，发式

2) outlaw ['aʊtiɔː] v. 宣布为非法

3) basically ['beɪsɪkəiɪ] adv. 大致来说，基本地，主要地

4) driveway ['draɪvweɪ] n. 车道，私人车道

5) mode [məʊd] n. 状态；形式

6) transition [trɑːn'sɪʃ(ə)n] n. 坡道过渡部分

7) aerial ['eərɪəi] n. 空中动作

8) mortgage ['mɔːgɪdʒ] n. 房屋按揭，抵押

9) pulled back 紧缩开支

10) Top Ramen 日清顶级拉面，日本方便面的大牌子，在此代指方便面。

11) Taco Bell 塔可钟快餐，上世纪50年代创建于美国加州，是世界上规模最大的墨西哥风味快餐连锁店，在此代指快餐。

12) literally ['iɪtərəiɪ] adv. 真正，完全

13) genre ['ʒɑːŋr] n. 类型，流派

Having skating as a13)genre of gaming is something that I never imagined at all. And Ican honestly say that. But I felt skating was never represented properly in those modes, and so, when I got a chance to work on a game, I dove in head first and I wanted to make it fun for skaters to play. You know, I thought it would be something that it was good, the skating industry appreciated it and the skaters liked it, and maybe inspired some people to go buy a game system,’cause they thought it was a cool game. But I never thought it was gonna be this giant14)franchise or create a genre, and I’m proud of that, though.

The Most Satisfying Work

The stuff [sic] that close to my heart is doing a foundation for public skate parks. Basically we try to help to fund public skate parks in low-income areas where there is a lot of at-risk youth that maybe don’t have much [sic]15)outlets for activities, but, choose to skateboard and don’t have many’s support in doing so. There are way more than people imagine. And, to date we’ve given away over $4 million. We’ve helped to fund over 500 skate parks. We actually want them to feel like they have16)ownership of it. And to go to the grand openings and see the faces of the kids is…that’s the best.

14) franchise ['fræntʃaɪz] n. 特许经营权，系列品牌

15) outlet ['aʊtiet] n. 出口，发泄机会

16) ownership ['əʊnəʃɪp] n. 所有权

CY百科

◆ peanut butter and jelly sandwich 花生酱和果冻三明治：简称PB&J，通常在两块面包之间夹一层或多层花生酱和一层或多层果酱。这种三明治号称是美国小孩子的主要食品、最受美国人喜爱的三明治。据查，这种三明治最早出现在1900年的一本烹饪杂志上，到了上世纪20年代，它已经广受美国孩子的欢迎。有一项统计表明，美国人在中学毕业前平均每人会吃1500个花生酱和果冻三明治。

见招拆招

固定搭配：a good

Good是一个同学们再熟悉不过的词了，但它也有大家不太熟悉的用法。Good作形容词用时有一层意思是“充分的，足够的，相当的”，但要表达这层意思，它需要有“a”的配合，“a good”作为一种固定搭配一起充当形容词，如：take a good rest（充分休息）和a good five miles（足足五英里）等；下次再看到have a good meal（饱餐一顿），可不要以为这是指餐桌上食物丰盛的意思哦，如：It will take a good three hours to get to the next destination.（要花整整三个小时才会到达下一站。）

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我对滑板的热爱

就我而言，从开始练习滑板起，我总觉得人们一直忽视了滑板运动的某些精髓，他们只留意到发型、音乐，以及滑板到处被禁的现象，但他们没有看到滑手身体动作的别致及独特之处。一直以来，我都觉得是滑板运动给了自己前所未有的自信心。滑板是一种艺术形式，是一项运动，我想人们终于认识到了这一点。所以说呢，确实，滑板运动的规模现在如此壮大，我也很惊讶，不过我还是觉得：“你们怎么花这么长时间才明白这一点？”你知道吗，滑板一直是很棒的运动。

大致来说是这样，我哥哥将他的旧滑板给了我，我就沿着屋前的车道滑行，我记得当时回头对他大叫：“我该怎样转弯？”接着我可以说是一头撞上了墙，之后我捡起滑板，转过身，再往回滑。后来，我时不时拿出滑板，与附近的朋友们一起滑。有一次我到滑板运动场去，感觉自己来劲了：“啊，原来可以在那些碗型场地滑，你可以滑过这些坡道。”我还看到一张照片，照片上有个人从池中——一个空的游泳池——跃起做了个空中动作。那时我就说：“我也要做这个动作，我想学怎么做这个动作。”

我的艰难时刻

那时我要还两份房贷，又刚刚成家，但我依然想玩滑板，尽可能继续以滑板作为职业。我尽力紧缩开支。有足足两年的时间，我就靠吃方便面，上塔可钟这类快餐连锁店，吃花生酱及果冻三明治等度日的。

我觉得在那段日子里，最艰难的事就是同意在公共游乐场的停车场做滑板表演，一天演三场，每天的报酬是100美元（约人民币680元），还有就是去圣路易斯市或达拉斯市表演，在那里演出五天。我的意思是，我这样做只是为了支付日常开支，因为我并不喜欢这样的表演。

滑板电子游戏

将滑板运动做成电子游戏是我以前一点儿也没有想过的事——这我可得实话实说。但我觉得以前的电子游戏里没有滑板运动应有的位置，所以，当我有机会将它做成游戏时，我就义无反顾，我一心想给滑板爱好者做个好玩的游戏。你知道，我觉得这会是一件好事，是滑板业界乐见，又能让滑板爱好者高兴的事，或许还能促使一些人来购买一套滑板游戏，因为他们认为这是一款超好玩的游戏。但我从未想到这可以发展成规模这么大的系列游戏，还创立了一个游戏类别。不过，我为此而自豪。

最让我满足的工作

我最关心的事就是成立公共滑板场地基金会。我们主要是想资助低收入地区建设公共滑板场地，那些地区有很多面临各种问题的青少年，他们可能没有太多发泄精力的方式。而如果他们选择了滑板，需要的支持又不到位。这些人的数量会比人们想象的要多得多。到目前为止，我们已经拨出了超过400万美元（约人民币2700万元），资助建设了五百多个滑板场地。我们确实想让他们感到自己就是这些场地的主人。去参加这些场地的开幕式，看到年轻人的面孔……那是我最开心的事。