Airborne Hawk, Boom Boom HuckJam rock the T-Dome

Joom Joom Buck Ham. Hoom Hoom Juck Bam.

It doesn't matter what you call it. Tony Hawk's latest venture into the world of sports shows is everything that makes boys' hearts pound, poured into a halfpipe and laced across the top with flying motocross bikers.

The key phrase in the Boom Boom HuckJam is "huck." It's air. Boarders and bikers caught it at the Tacoma Dome last night, and those in the stands held theirs. All the while, music pounded, lights raced across the floor like a prisoner had escaped, and the boys went nuts.

The girls can have their Britneys and Backstreets. The Boom Boom HuckJam is for the boys, the men who still are, and anyone who carries the scars of a million tries at what the Jammers did with calm precision.

Ollies, 540s, tailwhips, hand plants, McTwists and 720s, with the '90s gold standard for powerhouse punk, the Offspring, perched on an adjacent stage and keeping the energy high.

"The idea was to have a Cirque du Soleil for the action-sports generation," Hawk said before the show, which debuted in Portland Wednesday night to a crowd of 12,000 — one of the biggest draws the Rose Garden has seen this year.

"It's a hit!" said Pat Hawk, Tony's older sister and one of three executive producers of the tour. "And we were nervous because no one has done anything like this before. All the athletes were all smiles and the audience was like ... "

They were like Ramo Natalizio, 14, of Tacoma, who could hardly sit still before the show.

"I just want to see the cool tricks," he said. There were plenty of those. For Hawk is accompanied on the tour by some of the biggest names in skateboarding and BMX biking, including boarder Bucky Lasek and biker Matt Hoffman.

"One stop and it was a banger," Lasek said of the Portland show. He said he had just learned an invert fakie and was "looking to fold it into my line tonight," along with a 30-foot long jump.

Luann Hilger, 42, brought nine boys to the show — one of them her husband, four of them her sons.

"This is a total thrill for all of them. It's a boy thing."

It's a Joom Joom. It's a Buck Ham. Whatever you want to call it, it rocks.

Nicole Brodeur: 206-464-2334 or nbrodeur@seattletimes.com.