Riley Hawk: 5 Greats
4/04/2022
Photo: MaddonShep Dawgs, gas-station dinners and advice from dad, Riley’s been in the game since birth and has the lists to prove it. Catch up with Baker’s six-stringin' round-rail master with this heavy feature from our May ‘22 issue.
All skate photos by Cribbs
Hard slams, long rails and the heavy sounds of Turnstile, Riley's new part brings the pain and the noise
- Andrew Reynolds is my boss
- Getting to be on a team with my favorite skaters
- The block-letter boards
- The artists
- Beagle
- What’s your last name?
- Where’s your dad?
- Who’s your dad?
- What’s your dad up to?
- How’s the coffee shop?
- Feeling good every day
- Having mental clarity
- Exercising
- Making mistakes
- Broken alarm-clock conversations
“Is that a kickflip? Where’s your dad?” Over the fence
- Casbah
- Johnny Brenda’s
- Music Box
- Larry’s Beach Club
- Bigfoot Lodge
- Water
- Theragun
- Yoga mat
- Golf clubs
- Jiu-Jitsu Gi
Propped tile to kinked frontside 50-50, Riley's no chicken
- Fuck!
- Kook!
- What are you doing?!
- Are you serious?!
- Next fucking try!
- Ankle ligaments
- PRP shots
- Knees to the face
- Broken toe
- Hot pockets
- Raw tomatoes
- Fast food
- Chicken (I’m allergic)
- Processed things
- Milk
Tanked and cuffed on a poised back Smith
- Watching T-Spliff effortlessly destroy every spot while filming for the third video
- Seeing Rowan become the best skateboarder ever
- Living in a house with all of my best friends making skate videos while we were 18-20 years old
- Getting the Shep Dawg block letters on a Baker board
- Shep Dawgs Vol. 3
- Expensive records
- Peloton bike
- Motorcycles
- Golf clubs
- Food
- Dustin Dollin
- Pedro Delfino
- Simon Bannerot
- Jack O’Grady
- Nate
- Water
- Coffee
- Green juice
- Sparkling water
- Tequila soda
Bluntslide to lip in Austin, TX
- Silence of the Lambs
- Snatch
- The Devil’s Rejects
- House of 1000 Corpses
- Batman Returns
- Theo Von
- Thrasher
- KEXP
- PGA
- John Danaher
- Right ankle surgery
- Another right ankle surgery
- Another right ankle surgery
- Left ankle surgery
- Collarbone surgery
- Supermensch
- If I Leave Here Tomorrow
- Dogtown and Z-Boys
- Tiger
- Minding the Gap
Backside 50, out and down. Put the lotion in the basket
- Larry David
- Tiger Woods
- Marlon “Chito” Vera
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Shep Gordon
- Tim
- Zeus
- Lola
- Rancher
- Muddy
- Jimmy Wilkins layback ollie, August ’21
- Marc Johnson casper stall, November ’12
- Any of Figgy’s
- Jon Dickson switch flip, March ’12
- Rick Howard getting water poured on him from an apartment above, July ’17
Back tail 270 in Baca Country
- Back Smith to back tail
- Front blunt to fakie nosegrind
- 5-0 to switch crook
- Back lip to sugarcane
- Feeble to hurricane
- Fireside ditch
- Home Ave.
- Boulder City ditch with all the bank to bars
- Perfect ditch by Bishop park
- Chula Vista ditch
Channel kickflip at a ditch that, sadly, did not make the top five 
- Adio — One Step Beyond
- Zero — Promo
- In Bloom
- Girl — Yeah Right!
- Birdhouse — The End
- Marisa Dal Santo
- Elissa Steamer
- Breana Geering
- Alexis Sablone
- Rayssa Leal
Headin' back from whence he came, back Smith up and around
- “Always be genuine and take a second, because a small moment that may not mean much to you—a fan will remember for the rest of their lives.”
- “A frontside air is not called a frontside Indy”
- “You’re always going to hear stuff about yourself that isn’t true. You can’t let it get to you.”
- When I was going to leave Birdhouse to skate for Baker he said, “Don’t just do it because you think it’s the cooler thing to do. Do it because it makes more sense financially and for your career.”
- I’ll eat at any restaurant he suggests
- Hendrix
- Ron Asheton
- Wayne Kramer
- Jus Oborn
- Isaiah Mitchell
- Beef jerky
- Sparkling water
- RXBAR
- Pistachios
- Chobani yogurt
- Sabbath — Paris, 1970
- Any Hendrix
- Joy Division
- Early Wu-Tang
- Metallica with Cliff Burton
- Skate as long as I can
- Learn to skate vert better
- Go back to Japan
- Stay physically and mentally healthy
- Have fun
Feeble as long as you can. That’s the secret-
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