Hey all
Are there any documentaries that covered the Era AFTER Dogtown, when the NEW guys took it to the next level on ramps and onto the streets. It doesnt have to be based in the same part of America?
Thanks!
Not really a documentary, but have you watched the original Bones Brigade video and its sequels?
Rising Son – The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi
Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
Bones Brigade: An Autobiography
There is one, recently released: Bones Brigade: An Autobiography. It's not the tapes they made during their era, it's current interviews of Stacy and Craig Stecyk's team that was put together after the Zephyr team fell apart.
You see most of the Z-boys as well as the next generation with Tony Hawk, Rodney Mullen, Lance Mountain, Steve Cabelarro (pretty sure I spelled that wrong), etc.
It's really good, I highly recommend checking it out.
There's also Rising Sun, about Christian Hosoi. It's mostly about him, but it does also include his era of skating, his rivalry with Tony Hawk. It's also good.
shareAlso--The Motivation. It's about the current era of skateboarding. It's a profile of five or six of the top guys going for the Street League championship.
There's also a sequel, The Motivation 2: The Chris Cole story, which focuses on Chris Cole specifically. It's interesting because he's in his forties and still at it. He crosses two generations of skating, it's cool to see his evolution as a skater alongside the evolution of the sport from the X-game time period until the contemporary.
As many have said, the Bones Brigade doc would be the logical next one to watch. The Gator and Hosoi docs focus on the individual while touching on the state of skating in the 80s. But the Bones doc starts off in the late 70s, early 80s and continues through the 80s and early 90s. It is very biased and tends to twist the facts a little, but it's good nonetheless.
After that I would watch Man who Souled the world, a doc about Steve Rocco, and the downfall of large skate companies like Powell Peralta and Vision. Also biased but gives a good over view of what happened after PP dominated skateboarding.
Then watch All This Mayhem, it focuses on the Pappas brothers, who dominated skating during the late 90s.