So I'm watching the Hosoi documentary (yeah, for the umpteenth time) and the film touches on not only Christian's father, Ivan, but also Tony Hawk's father who were both hugely involved in their sons' lives and completely supportive of their career choices.
The comment was made that, "they knew who their sons were" but it struck me that Christian eventually went to prison for drug possession as a complete addict. Tony, although immensely successful and relatively clean, after having yet another affair recently filed for his third divorce.
The question that arose for me was:
So what good did the heavy paternal involvement do either of the boys?
Could the poor decision making somehow have been influenced by the role the fathers played?
Completely unrelated?
Is this thing on?...
2 comments:
Things that make you go hmmmm......That is an interesting point!!!
As closely bound as my world is to fatherhood and skateboarding, the film ("Rising Son: The Rise and Fall of Christian Hosoi" http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2qn4l_rising-son-the-rise-fall-of-christi_people)
totally makes me ponder so many points. Definitely recommend it just because it's a rad documentary of an amazing skater.
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