James (now known as Jay boy) and I went to see it last night - loved it. Few good laughs some goodish skating and a bit more insight into the z-boys lifestyle in the early days (with some poetic licence).
The kid that plays Jay does a brilliant job with the attitude and the look. Ledger is cool as Skip too. The recreated Sid’s ‘Dog Bowl’ must be something special wherever it is.
Ripper sound track too - gotta get that.
check this out
scroll to the bottom of the page to see a jay adams grind circa may 2005 pretty cool
STACY PERALTA
16 Years old, rides for Jeff Ho/Zephyr Productions
Originally appeared in SkateBoarder magazine vol. 2, No. 2 Fall 1975
Stacy Peralta is prototypical of the emerging new style in skateboarding today. At sixteen years, he has been riding skates “off and on” since the age of six (after watching him, one suspects he was mostly on). Stacy describes his early days as mostly “a downhill surf-skate style based around weight shifting.”
Recently, along with some friends from the Santa Monica area, he entered the Del Mar Ocean Festival Contest just to see what it would be like . . .and somehow wound up placing sixth or eighth in freestyle. Until this point, Peralta had considered himself a “surf skater as opposed to a trickster.”