Z-Boys Skateboarding

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and Z-Boys details the story of a group of surfers turned skateboards who h the Zephyr skate crew, later to become known as the Z-Boys throughout California and the world of skateboarding. The film was directed by one of the founding members of the Z-Boys, Stacey Peralta, who would go on to be one of the most influential skateboarders of all time due his self-taught knowledge of film making, most specifically as a director. Around this time, there was a stigma surrounding the new sport of skateboarding, and many saw it simply as a thuggish lifestyle that was set to corrupt the streets of California. Much of the reason that people saw only the negatives was that the sport was pushing boundaries and taking a step away from a conformed society. …show more content…

Stacey Peralta’s film was released at the right time to counter much of this negativity, showing the ingenuity of the people who started up skateboarding and returning viewpoints of the sport to original focus, setting up a community of likeminded people who would push boundaries and continue to further what it is possible to achieve. This is one of many situations in which film making has diffused a negative situation. As well as this, Stacey Peralta had previously directed a film, The Bones Brigade Video Show 1983, using their young team to create esoteric images conveying the culture's sarcasm and disenfranchised dark humour’ to laugh in the face of the negative stereotypes, even making their logo out of a military motif, re-interpreting it as a piece of skateboarding history. Peralta weaponized consumer VCRs by directing The Bones Brigade Video Show, the low-budget amateur skateboard video was the first of its kind and sold 30,000 copies, re-establishing skateboarding in the public domain. This film popularised bowl and pool skateboarding, which led directly to the idea of vert skating, which would later revolutionise the

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