January has barely ended but there has already been a huge amount of original web video content channels launched on YouTube. Extreme sports has always played a big part in YouTube’s makeup with fans and patrons uploading their favourite tricks, clips, calamities and how to guides. One of the latest channels comes courtesy of skateboarding’s most bankable icon Tony Hawk and his ‘Ride’ channel.

Tony Hawk has been a legend in the skating world since the 80s and with a string of high profile competition wins, an incredibly popular videogame series and numerous films he is the perfect star to launch a quality video channel that will no doubt be subscribed to by many a skate fan.

The web video channel has everything a fan of skating would need with trick tips, pro videos, interviews with members of the skateboarding culture and those who are influenced by it and so much more. Perhaps the best innovation though is the ‘Shredit Cards’ series that allows skaters to upload tricks to the channel to try and win money off skate time at a park in Tampa. Tough luck if you don’t live in Florida but the principle of the idea is sound.

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