Tony Hawk gets candid about femur surgery, says he's 'taking it slow'

Even though Tony Hawk is delaying performing a kickflip, for the time being, he will eventually return to skating at a "high level."

The famous professional skateboarder, 54, explained on Friday why he still uses a cane and assured his worried Twitter fans that his injury won't keep him from moving around.

"To those seeing pics of me using a cane and assuming it is a permanent situation: I had my femur surgically realigned 2 weeks ago in order to get back to what I love doing at a high level," Hawk wrote. 

"And I'm taking it slow this time around. See you on the other side."

After his performance this year in the Thanksgiving parade in Detroit, where he was skating next to floats, Tony posted on social media that he would be having femur surgery just a week later.

Discoursing the "hundreds (thousands?)" of people who yelled "do a kickflip" at him, Hawk delivered a suitable answer as to why he missed out on nailing any tricks.

"My apologies; it was hard enough skating through the whole parade on my misaligned femur," he wrote. "Surgery is scheduled for next week to put it back in place."