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  1.                                  It wasnΓÇÖt the competition 
  2.                                  that drove Tony Hawk to 
  3.                                  become the best in the 
  4.                                  world at skateboarding. 
  5.                                  What Tony cared about 
  6. most was creating different moves. 
  7.  
  8. Tony was 9 when he jumped onto a skate-
  9. board for the first time. At first he just used 
  10. the board to get around the neighborhood.
  11. About a year later, he began taking it to the
  12. park and learning tricks. In 1982, the year he
  13. turned 14, he also turned professional.
  14.  
  15. Tony won six official national championships
  16. in a row. (He might have won more, but the
  17. national governing body of skateboarding 
  18. went out of business and there was no 
  19. one to keep official records.)