Jason Ellis Opens Up To Tony Hawk

the most inspiring thing two things being on this show with you and you talking about how you weren't that naturally gifted and you SC every day and and and to me I didn't know that like I just KN I just was always assumed when I first saw you when you came to Australia and all that stuff this guy is one of the lucky ones like this is a guy that like obviously grabbed a skateboard and was like Hey finger flip that's pretty easy what else you want me want to see me do but then hearing you say that I was like okay cuz that's like I knew I was n talented but I loved it so much that my body caught up with my love for it mhm but when you broke your leg and the before you got the second surgery there were times where we skated and I didn't say anything but you fell off and you couldn't get up off the ground and I was like this is insane what he's doing and then you went over to the street course and I didn't say anything to I haven't until right now but you were over on the on the on the Bo On The Pyramid thing sitting there with your skateboard on the side of the rail and looking at it and I was up on the deck and I looked over the rail and saw you down there and I was like [ __ ] man like you're in hell right now and and you're contemplating [ __ ] right now and I was like I feel so bad for you and and I'm like I don't know how he's going to get out of this and then your head popped up on the side of the you came up the stairs on the other side and I was like this [ __ ] guy is a warlord you know like like I think I'm tough I like tough people you know like I can relate to tough people people that don't give up I think it's awesome when somebody does that but there's there's a there's a limit to your stubbornness where you're just it it becomes stupidity yeah but you did it you got this you got a second surgery you played it smart you made another video part where you did a bunch I know all that I'm just saying in in that moment in that moment especially when my leg was out of place and I was I just kept forcing it those were the stupid moments where I was just so stubborn to be back on my skateboard and also it wasn't fun like those no it was hell I saw it there were no there were no glory moments in in that in I you're saying stupid and it was a stupid moment but to me it was one of the most inspirational things I've ever seen dude and when people ask me what's the most inspiring [ __ ] I've ever seen in my life it was that you know and then to see what you do now like every time I see a video where you're skating I'm like man I remember when he was on that box over there and it was over you know and and you and okay whoops you kind of jumped the gun a little bit but then definitely but I was definitely contemplating those moments like oh yeah I guess this is the end because I can't overcome it it made me you know cuz I want to quit dude I want to quit a lot of things that I'm in you know there's a like being a stand up comedian at my age with all the things that I've done and how long it's going to take to be a stand-up comedian of that level okay but but here's the thing but I'm not stopping right but here's the thing on that note you just killed at The Comedy Store The Comedy Store iconic Los Angeles comedy venue I know right right like it's it's an institution it is it's the spot it's the spot you killed it that place that's that's that's the trajectory right so you did all this stuff to work there I mean that that's inspiring all this all this all these steps all this just terrible shows yeah late nights driving yep you know and and um failing yeah not not because straight you failed just because you bombed straight up I've driven going through that going like and then this is and not saying this is the peak I'm just saying like that's your trajectory it's it's yeah it's not a straight line no right there's a lot D on the way but that combined with you just did 540 after not skating like all that stuff that's the that's the same level of that's the same level of what you're saying about me it is it absolutely is you may not see it because whatever I was on this professional skateboarding career for so long and that was my only focus but all those things is the same level of of warlord and commitment and stubbornness you have you're saying I'm a warlord of course I'm saying because because you persevered through all that stuff yeah to get there yeah so we're doing all right we got to take it we got to appreciate it more cuz you're telling when you said that to me I was like man I I'll admit like when I walked off the stage I was like oh you did it dude like you did it cuz there was an break like where people are just going to keep app like keep clapping and cheering so I got to stop so I'm just standing there and I'm like you hit it like you like people there was a bunch of people that are really good they were funny too but you got an Applause break in this thing like you're on fire right now dude and your background is not you're not in it for as long as these people know weere near and when I walked off I felt it it's like when I you know like when I made the 540 when I when I've done skateboard tricks I was like not going to do it but I'm not going to give up and then I did it that feeling of like feeling whole like feeling like that's why I'm here you know like when I die right before I die be like remember that you kicked ass yeah like those things mean so much to me but then this stupid this is the thing I don't like about me is I'm on to the next one like okay right but but that happened that's what it takes if you were to rest on those accolades you would not be motivated right to go further right you wouldn't you'd be like that's it I killed it comedy store later right I'm done but it's still slightly insane it is I could have done at least an hour on it it is but it's a mindset and it's an attitude that we're not letting go of right and so that's where we're at and that's what happens and when you know when you see me getting my tricks back and whatever else you're right I'm on to the next one right right and that is such a shortlived uh celebration yeah like it's it's really short yeah too it's too short sweet I did it yeah yeah and then yeah I'm out of here by the time your pads are off you're like what am I do the next week but it was so the the I think the the shift that I made in my life and in my in my Approach To My Career is that I learned to not let the disappointments linger cuz it would be like the wins are short yeah the disappointments linger yeah forever right so I learned to equalize that yeah so the disappointment is like ah I didn't make it get over it and you're successful at that yes yeah teach me cuz it's it's kind of like I remember my sister telling me once she watched me play Blackjack and she's like your anger towards losing is so much more than your hype towards winning wow I was like I think that's a metaphor for my life yeah yeah yeah cuz I man unfortunately can relate to that so much when it bombs learn to equalize that where it's just you just got to let it go I mean bombing is probably just as as crushing it's fuel though it's fuel but but you do have to but you can't it can't be just always just I gotta win you know what I mean you gota you got to let those go I'm just saying yeah don't you can't just take an stride which're just like n it's like you got to learn from it it's like when Rocky when Rocky watched uh uh Apollo Creed die and then he trained to fight Drago and he just had mean he was just like seeing Apollo die over and over again he's like I'm GNA kill that dude you know I mean and he's like running in the snow running up the mountains and like all the things that pushed him to keep running was that he's going to kill Drago you know and it's like if I bomb I just keep running it in my head and go I lik when we were we were using real world examples before well I'm trying to lighten it up a little bit dude even though it's very that was very that was very Rocky motivated me dude yeah I get it