The upcoming Tony Hawk Ride comes with a skateboard peripheral, unveiled at E3, for use on your living room floor. The idea is you re meant to fake skate by standing on the board, pushing your other foot along the side to mimic gaining speed, and then to spin the board to create tricks.
It sounds absolutely crazy, and we’re just waiting for the ow i just totally smashed my face into my plasma screen tweets for rides gone wrong, but we re willing to give it the benefit of the doubt.
Even after watching a video that, at least to us, is a little cringe-inducing. Pro skateboarders having a try at fake skateboarding is sort of, well, wrong. The whole point is to have poseurs like us think we re really skateboarding. It s hard to believe pro skaters like Paul Rodriguez would really be that enthusiastic about pulling off an ollie when they do that in their real lives every day.
Anyway, here’s the video.
