Tod Swank "The Push" Del Mar 1987 Size:30X40" Baldy Pipe near Upland

Baldy Pipe near Upland

This is a photo I shot around 1983 of a young Tony Hawk sitting in the little full pipe at Sanoland in Cardiff-by-the-Sea

In front of the helicopter on the bottom of the ramp is Stacy Peralta

The photo is made to order and signed by me in black Micron pen in the lower right and with the title of the photo in the lower left in the white border and shipped in a thick-as-you-know-what cardboard tube

Tod Swank "The Push" Del Mar 1987 Size:30X40" Baldy Pipe near UplandI honed my skateboard photography skills in the 80s shooting my skateboarding friends and the guys I worked with in the skateboarding industry. I drove by this shadow in Del Mar under the freeway everyday on my way from the Del Mar Skate Ranch to The Pannikin to get coffee and I always wanted to integrate skateboarding into the light play somehow. I got Tod Swank my friend and photo assistant at the time to skate back and forth until I got what I