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This week on X Games Trick Tips, the legendary Christian Hosoi breaks down his original trick, the Body Jar.SUBSCRIBE http://xgam.es/YouTube X Games has be...
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To avoid arrest, Hosoi stopped attending competitions and demos, including declining an invitation to the first X Games (then the Extreme Games), which was going to be marketed as a renewed rivalry between Hawk and Hosoi. Hosoi was finally captured in January 2000 at the Honolulu airport.
Aug 3, 2009 · 1980s vert dominator Christian Hosoi, who regularly used to compete against Tony Hawk, and Planet Earth founder Chris Miller shined in the finals today, one-upping each other with stylish old school and new school tricks. Hosoi took the title in the end, going huge on his transfers and getting almost upside down in the cradle, to the delight of ...
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Jul 20, 2009 · This clip was part of the first full TV show produced at a skateboarding event. The sports special aired in prime time on ESPN. The beach event set the stage for the XGames, the Gravity Games,...
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Jun 7, 2004 · ESPN needed personalities to sell the X Games, as the Extreme Games soon came to be called, and very quickly singled out Tony Hawk and Christian Hosoi as the main characters in the "drama"...
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Before there was the X-Games, there was Christian Hosoi. If you don’t understand the cultural relevance of that statement, just ask some of his skateboarding contemporaries like Tony...
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Jun 28, 2012 · Always the romantic, Hosoi turned to drugs. He hit a new low in 1995, when he skipped the inaugural X Games — with its promise of Hawk vs. Hosoi 2.0 — and hid out in Japan with a wealthy benefactor who loved skateboarding and methamphetamines.
