The 56-year-old legendary skateboarder regrets not receiving the right type of support through strength training and rehabilitation at the height of his career and thinks he understood their importance “a little too late”.

Reflecting on the differences between his career and that of his skateboarding son Riley, he told Men’s Health magazine: “There’s a difference between our generations. I would suffer through injuries and I didn’t have the resources or the support to do any recovery or strengthening.

“And to be fair, skating at that time was the antithesis of sport. We denied that stuff because we were like, ‘We’re not jocks, we’re not doing those things’.

“But as you get older, you realise you need support outside of skating.

“I might have got it a little too late, because I broke my leg and that’s when I really leaned into it. But Riley was already on that trajectory.”

By contrast, 31-year-old Riley – who turned professional in 2013, 10 years after his dad retired – always knew he needed to “take care” of himself to do well.

Riley said: “I wouldn’t necessarily say I see skating more as a sport.

“I just saw the writing on the wall early with my own body that if I wanted to keep doing it at a level that would be respectable as a professional, I needed to take care of myself and put in extracurricular work.

“You can only skate for so long before you’re wondering why you’re limping all the time or why your knees are jacked.

“I kind of went out on my own and found some basic strength and conditioning stuff.”