a reflect in it subtitle and stoke be not an original idea about a talented individual attaining success then lose it . a formula for a different time place that work represent during the 1980s skateboard scene . long before tony hawk reach the pinnacle of skateboard prominence to become synonymous with the sport and there be mark gator rogowski . hawk and who be an interviewee and roll in similar circle with gator . they and and others like them and be at work in an era before the gravity and x game be establish and eventually become permanent tv offering . with gator a the focus and viewer get a back story of when extreme sport be in it in infancy . rogowski be among a capable few who take a hobby of countless teenager to become a well pay performer . he earn money through merchandising and lucrative endorsement deal . just a he reach the top and he slowly decline personally and professionally surpass by an evolve skateboard landscape which beckon high skill . viewer need not be skateboard aficionados to be engross inside this dramatic profile and with an all too tragic conclusion . too bad for the uninitiated and mark anthony rogowski couldn not have be introduce under good circumstance .