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In 2012, Alva appeared on an episode of the A&E reality series, Storage Wars to appraise a skateboard. Alva was featured in the 2005 skateboarding video game Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. He is seen on the cover of the album The Action Is Go by stoner rock band Fu Manchu.
Lords of Dogtown is a 2005 American biographical drama film that captures the rise of skateboarding culture in the 1970s Santa Monica and Venice, California.Directed by Catherine Hardwicke and written by Stacy Peralta, a key figure in the skateboarding community, the film chronicles the lives of the Z-Boys, a group of young skateboarders who revolutionized the sport with their aggressive style ...
Dogtown and Z-Boys is a 2001 American documentary film co-written and directed by Stacy Peralta, produced by Agi Orsi, and narrated by Sean Penn. [1] The documentary explores the pioneering of the Zephyr skateboard team in the 1970s (of which Peralta was a member) and the evolving sport of skateboarding.
Tony Alva [5] Alva Skates Ace Vans Jake Anderson [6] Skate Mental Thunder Spitfire HUF Former Five Points Skateshop Mark Appleyard [7] Element Thunder Bones Globe Volcom CCS Lizzie Armanto [8] Birdhouse Independent Bones Vans Bro Style 187, Action Cam, GShock, Mahfia Ray Barbee [3] Element Independent Vans Wesc Pedro Barros: Pocket Pistols ...
There’s no more iconic figure in the skateboarding world than Tony Hawk, the superstar athlete whose name has become virtually synonymous with the sport. The 53-year-old “Birdman” launched ...
"Tony Hawk's Pro Skater" dropped on Sept. 29, 1999, becoming an instant hit that not only introduced skateboarding to an audience of millions, but also exposed a new generation to punk music ...
The Z-boys began as a surf team for the Zephyr surfboard shop at Santa Monica. Jeff Ho, Skip Engblom, and Craig Stecyk opened the shop, titled Jeff Ho Surfboards and Zephyr Production Team, in 1973, and they soon begin recruiting young locals to represent them in surfing competitions. 14 year old Nathan Pratt was the first member of the team; he originally had worked in the shop as an ...
Hawk is the first person to ever complete a documented 900, too, which he first did at X Games 5 in 1999, and is behind the popular video game series “Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater.”