For stylish airs, no one came close to Christian Hosoi. At his peak in the mid-80s he was the rock star of skating, pulling down money that rivaled Tony Hawk's paycheck. Innovating crazy vertical maneuvers like the Christ Air, Christian knew how to stoke an audience. Then it all came crashing down when Hosoi plowed into self-destruction, getting hooked on crystal meth and hitting rock bottom with a prison sentence for drug smuggling. Completely annihilated, Christian turned to the Bible for answers and found new strength. With lots of action footage and a slammin' soundtrack, this gritty, inspiring film goes deep inside the world of skateboarding as seen through the incredible highs and lows of this legend's life, revealed through never-before-released home movies and interviews with Christian's family and friends including top skaters Jason Lee, Tony Hawk, Lance Mountain, Jay Adams, Tony Alva, Mark Ragowski and many more! Special Features:Quiksilver GrabsChrist TalesTrailerTony Hawk Video Game TrailerSystem Requirements:Running Time: 98:03 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE

Globe World Cup Skateboarding 2003

GLOBE WORLD CUP SKATEBOARDING: STREET RIOT /

A high-octane tour of the world of action sports, Keep Your Eyes Open follows some of the hottest pro-athletes on their quest for the ultimate adrenaline rush. Director Tamra Davis (Crossroads, Half Baked) takes you to the heart of the action, capturing some of the most jaw-dropping stunts and gruesome spills ever seen in the worlds of snowboarding, skiing, surfing, BMX, motocross and skateboarding.

The world-champion freestyle skateboarder and the man who brought the ollie - the trick that revolutionised the sport by taking it from the ground to the air - to street skating shares the history of skateboarding, as he tells the dramatic story of his life.pAt the age of 13, Rodney took the freestyle skating world by storm. He won 35 world titles in less than five years. But through it all, his father looked down on his son's love for skating and pressured him to walk away from the sport and leave behind his fans and status as the most famous skateboarder of his era. After years of stress and conflict, Rodney gave in and promised his father he'd quit for good. But by the time he finally broke free from his suffocating and abusive home life, the popularity of freestyle had waned and given way to vert and street styles. So Rodney picked up his board and started from scratch. With the help of mentor Mike Ternansky, Rodney used his freestyle background to usher in a whole new era of street skating.pToday Rodney is more popular than ever. The videos in his series Rodney Versus Daewon are among the most popular skateboard videos ever produced. He won the 2002 Transworld Skateboarding readers' choice award for favourite street skater and is the most popular character on the top-selling Tony Hawk's Pro Skater video games.

divFrom the hard-ridden half-pipe of a suburban driveway to teens doing boardslides down stairway handrails in Rio de Janeiro, from the bright-light glare of ESPN's X-Games to the groundbreaking street-skating videos of Spike Jonze, skateboarding has taken the world by storm -- and if you can't deal with that, get out of the way. In The Answer Is Never, skating journalist Jocko Weyland tells the rambunctious story of a rebellious sport that began as a wintertime surfing substitute on the streets of Southern California beach towns more than forty years ago and has evolved over the decades to become a fixture of urban youth culture around the world. Merging the historical development of the sport with passages about his own skating adventures in such wide-ranging places as Hawaii, Germany, and Cameroon, Weyland gives a fully realized portrait of a subculture whose love of free-flowing creativity and a distinctive antiauthoritarian worldview has inspired major trends in fashion, music, art, and film. Along the way, Weyland interweaves the stories of skating pioneers like Gregg Weaver and the Dogtown Z-Boys and living legends like Steve Caballero and Tony Hawk. He also charts the course of innovations in deck, truck, and wheel design to show how the changing boards changed the sport itself, enabling new tricks as skaters moved from the freestyle techniques that dominated the early days to the extreme street-skating style of today. Vivid and vibrant, The Answer Is Never is a fascinating book as radical and unique as the sport it chronicles./div

DIVRamp tricks—skate moves made on, over, or around wood ramps, cement bowls, and half-pipes—are a key, albeit challenging, component of skateboarding. Hundreds of captioned, sequential photographs demonstrate precisely how these exacting moves are safely made in this indispensable guide to 40 ramp tricks. Beginning with basic moves, including stalls, grinds, and slides, skaters gradually learn the particular positioning and balance needed to perform more advanced tricks such as flips and airs. A brief history of ramp skateboarding examines the birth of the genre as well as champions of the sport, including the pioneering Dogtown Crew and current stars Bob Burnquist and Tony Hawk.BR/DIVDIVBEvan Goodfellow/Bis a sponsored pro skater and skateboard instructor. He is the coauthor ofIStreet Skateboarding: Endless Grinds and Slides/Iand author ofIStreet Skateboarding: Flip Tricks/I. He has costarred in eight skateboarding videos. He lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.BTadashi Yamaoda/Bis a skateboarder and skateboarding photographer whose works have appeared inIThrasher/IandITransworld Skateboarding/I. He lives in San Diego.BR/DIV

DIVTaking place at real street locations, this photographic collection provides readers with the information necessary to take skateboarding abilities to a higher level of performance. Progression of style and technique in skateboarding has led to the cutting-edge use of real-world terrain such as curbs, stairs, and handrails. Beginning with instruction on how to properly negotiate curbs and escalating to the endless ways a skateboarder can maneuver up, over, and down the cement and asphalt that make up the urban and suburban landscapes, these step-by-step photographs will help skateboarders master the streets of the world.BR/DIVDIVBEvan Goodfellow/Bis a sponsored pro skater and skateboard instructor. He has costarred in eight skateboarding videos in as many years. He lives in Glendora, California.BDoug Werner/Bis the author ofISkateboarder's Start Up/I,ISkateboarding: Book of Tricks,/IandISkateboarding: New Levels/I. He lives in San Diego, California.BR/DIV

DIVWith sequential photos and step-by-step instructions, this guide to a performance cornerstone—the flip trick—benefits skateboarders of all skill levels. Often combined with curb tricks and applied to such obstacles as handrails and ramps, flip tricks are commonly used as the final touch on a more complex maneuver, and, with this guidebook, readers learn the basics of such tricks while progressing toward veteran moves. A section devoted to the history of skateboarding is included with an in-depth look at the individuals responsible for the creation of flip tricks and how they came to invent this aspect unique to skateboarding.BR/DIVDIVBEvan Goodfellow/Bis a sponsored pro skater and skateboard instructor. He is the coauthor ofIStreet Skateboarding: Endless Grinds and Slides/I. He has costarred in eight skateboarding videos in as many years. He lives in Glendora, California.BR/DIV