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 Wrathchild3:28 AM Tuesday, January 08, 2002 |
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Yup, this post is all about skateboarding. I love skateboarding. I think you're crazy if you don't think skating is cool or at least acknowledge how much skill is involved in being a good skater. Last night my girlfriend and I went to see "Dog Town and Z-Boys" at a cool little outdoor cinema (for anyone in Perth, the Luna's "Outdoor Nextdoor" in Leederville - check it out). This is a film narrated by Sean Penn and directed by original Z-boy and one of the father-figures of skating, Stacy Peralta. It's all about the birth and evolution of skating as it is today. Dog Town is a rather grim-looking working-class area of Los Angeles, that pretty much hit the shit when most of the ppl left and the amusement parks there went out of business. There were lots of roller-coaster ruins and piles of rubble. There was also a hardcore surf scene. A bunch of kids surfed like maniacs there through debri and in and around pylons jutting out of the water, and defended their ocean territory with equal vigor. They couldn't surf all day though, so someone had the bright idea of screwing rollerskate trucks and wheels to the bottom of a bit of wood and using it to surf on land when the waves weren't breaking. Thus the skateboard was born [insert angelic chorus here]. The first wheels were clay (!) and generally these contraptions were fucked. You couldn't do much on them and they were relegated to the same fad status as yoy-yos and hula-hoops. After a while some genius invented urethane wheels, and then kids everywhere busted out. The Z-boys had already been skating for a while though and when the better equpiment rolled around, they really started going at it, emulating their favourite Australian surfers on their skatebaords. Moves they were still trying to figure out in the water they could do on a skateboard. So they did. Then they took it further into un-charted territory, and they birthed the modern skating technique. A lot of people wanted to get on the bandwaggon. Real competitions were held. No-hoper teenagers started making more money than their parents. As Stacy says in the film "It was like just red carpets... everywhere. And the greatest thing about it is, we were not the valedictorians of the school. We were the guys that would have been chosen last to succeed. And for some reason, by doing something that everybody said was a waste of time, we ended up influencing kids all over the world." The film features interviews with most of the original Zephyr team, amazing skating photography recorded at the time by Craig Stecyck and Glen E. Friedman, as well as commentary from Henry Rollins, Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament and Fugazi's Ian McKaye. If you've ever had any interest in skating whatsoever, or even if you just like to see kids in funny 60's and 70's clothing and hairstyles carving it up on oldschool boards, I urge you to go see this film. When it was over my girlfriend turned to me and said "Makes me feel like going skating" which echoed my sentiments exactly, so we pissed off down to the Floreat park and did some side-ways rolling in the dark. It was a lot of fun of course. |
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