Dive into the life of skateboard legend and visionary Stacy Peralta. Know about his skateboarding career, filmy career, business and so on,
The world wasn't ready for the Z-boys, there was so much aggression, they were more like a street gang than a skate team. I do not own any of these photos all rights are reserved to the owners of these photos. Alot of them were taken by Craig Stecyk. ...
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If you’re young, male and you live in the city, how do you prove yourself in the most materially comfortable country on earth? How do you show courage, daring, skill, strength? How do you prove you’re a man? If you’re a Masai Tribesman in Africa you kill a lion. If you’re an Aborigine boy, you go on walkabout, if you live in Dogtown, Los Angeles you ride a skateboard. Hilariously, this is how this vintage documentary from the golden age of skateboarding begins. At the time of its release in 1978, the sport of skateboarding was still a developing endeavor that a lot of people outside of California might have looked at with simple fascination. While the sport was growing, with skate shops and parks popping up all over the country, it was by no means as prevalent and integrated into world culture as it is today. Skateboard Kings, produced by Horace Ové for the British Television series The World About Us,features early pioneers Tony Alva, Ray Flores, Shogo Kubo, Stacy Peralta, Billy Yeron, Paul Constantineau, Jerry Valdez and Kent Senatore among many others. It makes them out to be this sort of...
Lords of Dogtown is a cult skateboard movie directed by Catherine Hardwicke. It tells the story of skateboarding legends Stacy Peralta, Jay Adams and Tony Alva.
