my skateboard career end in 1974 when my two by four skateboard with steel roller skate wheel hit a rock and i tumble and for day it seem and down the sidewalk outside my parent house in boston . by the time the cast come off my arm and summer be go . but i have always admire the x game type and surfer especially . i think i spend the first month after i move to southern california on the beach and pier watch the surfer and bemoan that fact that i have miss my call . it the sort of thing you should learn young and before the horrible sens of self preservation and self awareness burrow in . or else at best and you will be so worried about not get hurt or laugh at and you will wind up look like a trained bear . i always admire how a good surfer seem to not care about anything but that moment and that wave and that experience . at one with the force of nature . a good surfer make it look like there be nothing else but that wave right there and and the way you interact with it . there a lot of zen in it to me . this documentary outline how a few young folk take the surfing concept and extend them to skateboard . ramp and downgrade and low sweeping curve while interact with the cement wave beneath their foot . in their day and time and this be all new . radical . prior to the zephyr skate team the idea apparently be to go as fast a you could in a straight line on a skateboard and hence my long evel knievel at caesers palace like tumble down the front walk . this film be a look back through time and to an america before everything be label and tag and market and and jam force down our throat a extreme . ( seriously and what so extreme about an extreme value meal at taco bell . other than the fact that it be an extreme hazard to your colon . ) watch this film and watch the birth of extreme sport . before there be an x game and before boom boom huck jam and before crusty demon and before the asa . there be these young street urchin who create extreme sport without really try . they be just do it for the purity and the pure pleasure and of skateboard in the sun with friend . i hope they get a cut of the extreme money out there . goodness know they do not get the credit they deserve . maybe this film can correct that . excellent film with a great soundtrack and a portrait of a southern california and indeed an america and that no long exist . i do not care for sean penn but he do a decent job narrating .