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What can I say except that it was an awesome movie? Not much. As far as I know from watching the original documentary, Dogtown and Z-Boys and being a skateboarder for years it seemed to be right along with the story. I guess it should be since it was written by Stacy Peralta. The filming was really well done. All the angles while they were skateboarding were artistic and innovative like todays skateboard videos.(One of my favorites: Menikmati by es’ footwear)

I thought the actors did pretty well, especially the kid who played Jay Adams. I was not particularly fond of Tony Alva’s character… but you have to admit that he started the revolution in skateboarding for style, tricks, and branding skateboarders. Overall I really enjoyed the film and would tell you to go see it. For a couple of reasons: It’s a true story, heath ledger and johnny knoxville are cool actors, skateboarding and surfing is cool, the z boys are cool.

Here’s my very short story how I met Larry Gordan, or Gordan and Smith (G & S) a couple years ago…. so here it is. I was in a summer surf camp one summer (before I could drive myself to the beach) and one day we took a trip to the G & S factory in La Jolla. It was a pretty small shop, with surfboards being shaped in the back, a few offices and tons of surfboards all over the place. We were able to talk to him a little bit, take a mini tour and he signed cut offs of foam from shaping surfboards for us. So that’s my little claim to

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