It's amazing to think this documentary is nearly as long ago from now as the z boys were from 2001...

Last year at the St. Cloud Minnesota skate plaza I got the pleasure of meeting Tony he was a very pleasant guy to be around and he still rips

Song is "Hots On For Nowhere" by Led Zeppelin, on the "Presence" album

one of the greatest docu

This guy is a sick ass skater and surfer!!! Mad respect

i like how all the other guys talk about each other behind their backs and say, "oh dude jay was the best hes was way beyond us"..." tonys time and balance were just so superior" good friends right there

I rode an Alva board back in the day......in England! 10" wide which was WIDE back in 77/78? Mid Tracks and YO-YO wheels as hard as rock......Tony in the dessert in a storm drainage pipe riding past 90 degrees from the floor was my inspiration.....He's da best 4 sure. I'm 48 now and still ride. Had a huge wipe out 2 days ago.....still feeling it where back then we'd have been straight back at it?

We’re lucky to have all that footage to see how it all started.

Sid was based on a real person but was not the same as in the lords of dogtown. He was a boy that lived in the rich part of LA that had a pool. And he loved watching them skate and that, so he invited them all up to his pool when he was ill. He died of brain cancer

My dad saw Tony Alva and Stacey Peralta on wide world of sports in 1977. I was 4. The next payday I had a skateboard.

Thank you for posting "Tony Alva - Dogtown And The Z-Boys."

It was fun to be a teenager back then in SoCal. We all looked to Tony Alva to see how to have an attitude long before punk came along.

My Family I love you!

Tony!!!! yeahh!! great pioneer!!

So still stoked in my old ass day . Hell yeH

surfing, skating, weed & muzik!

I met this man today, he was touring with the vans bus and they made a stop to the naval base here in pensacola fl. rad dude.

The Godfather of skating boarding

The Z-Boys remind me of Pink Floyd. For Pink Floyd, the inspirational creative genius was Syd Barrett. He was the guy that got them to write their own songs, and to break the boundaries and be comfortable with being different. David Gilmour was the one with a lot of talent and a strong work ethic that made Pink Floyd "Pink Floyd". In the same way, I think, Jay Adams is the "Syd Barrett" of the Z-Boys, where Tony Alva plays the role of David Gilmour.

met him yester day he is legit he is soo rad!

Tony and his family sill here in an diego , sorry to hear about one of your other doc vids got cut off sound due to a song confict. Great music in this movie , I watched all thos guys take over some of some pools remember everything like it was yesterday

I wished I grew up in their neighborhood in the mid seventies.

Tony’s the type of guy to ask if you want his autograph

I have to agree, when Alva came to Guidford it was pure

AWESOME! I have this docimentary!

My moment I never had

He's just the coolest guy ever. He's the boss, Hands down.

Gosh dayuuum! Alva was sooooo fine!

luv these curly hairs... He is amazing!

i agree , stacey peralta sponsord ton hawk when he was 14. alva started the 'vert air'. as shown in this doc.

Totally man, someone pointed that out before, now I can't not see it!

@Cotahere I don't know the sort of xylophone one at the start but the more upbeat one is Hots On For Nowhere by Led Zeppelin

just saw the movie!

thanks dude. i knew the singers voice sounded familiar

awsome

Yeah, same here!

oh shit he does still thats a trip

THE MAN!

forgot to add......now in BC, Canada riding a Longboard Larry DK Penguin.....sweet board.

Led Zeppelin and Skating. What more could a man ask for?

Imagine being around for something that was so early in its existence. That you could do so little and be considered a pioneer. Trying making a name in skating today. It's almost impossible with what guys like rodney and daewon have done. Those are the most important names in skating.

It's Drexl from True Romance!!! Minus the scars... =O)

Long live skateboarding.

Wow I didnt know about stacy, thanks.

the best

of course

Hots On For Nowhere

Although skating and surfing are so extreme today, take me back to this era. I love watching Jay Adams and Tony Alva skate pools, As for surfing, I would rather watch Tom Curren or Shaun Tomson carving J Bay.

1:26 - 1:33 was the best way to describe him... people who call him a douchebag/tool, I get what u mean, but he changed as he matured... & even if he didnt change, dont judge people as it's wrong when people judge you as well...

Wish Christian Hosoi was part of this documentary but he must’ve been in the throes of his demons still at that point.

@znb324 Yeah I think so too, I was gonna post his section of the film on youtube but it was already on and it had so many views I decided not to.

Like the movie lords of dogtown

Herbie Fletcher was skating pools 12 years before Alva was

Hots On For Nowhere from Presence

man me and my friends still tear the streets on our mini series', carving, annoying pedestrians and cutting up cars is what its all about

hey, thats me!

Wow, he look like Gary Oldman in True Romance!

lords of dogtown go search this movie, it will learn yo a lot about skating history!

@bkh91171 thanks!

so fucking cool !

@PizzaHero92 Parkour is pretty much taking over now. Though Skateboarding seemed great.

He looks like a young Dimebag Darrell in some photos.

Hots on for Nowhere - Led Zepplin

I got my first Makaha in 1976 I was East coast ......... Pools , yeah. Skateboard Mag, yeah ... rubble embedded in my palms, elbows and knees? --yeah Tony Jay and Stacey ... they were the shit man, fucking rockstars competing with the fucking Clash and didn't even know it.... it was our time ---them there, me here. coolasfuckinshit Man!

2nd Runner up - Jay Adams... Unacceptabley unexpected

hots on for nowhere . is the name its on zeps presence album

kinda sucks how tony alva doesn't have a name like tony hawk. alva has done more for skating then any other skater in the world, but his name rarely gets mentioned.

anyone know the name of the song that comes in at :36?

@cudelhiphop Good spot man, never noticed

I cant find anything on sid

i dont know shit about skating...but i know tony alva is the shit

he nowadays looks exactly like Gary Oldman in the movie true romance- I wonder if that is a coincidence?

anybody know what song that is? im pretty sure its zeppelin but not sure of the song.

i wonder how old rodney mullen was when tony was this famous

😊😊😊

@s8ter4life5407 Surfing the greatlakes is pretty sick

Dunno its taken straight from the film

yeah,hm,you right :)

What song is this

@SwitchRich Haha totally see it Still can't believe that's Gary Oldman

its funny how skating has changed

tony hawk came after tony alva "stacy peralta" who was the owner of bone brigade brought up tony hawk which means tony hawk was not in there age group

jay adams for life

does stacie peralta have one

Whats the name Of the Zeppelin song?

it's hard to believe that the current tony alva had such a big ego back then.

The irony is the that dogtown fell because people soon found out that surf style didn't work for progressive moves. It wasn't until people went back to the more upright style that the moves left the z boys in the dust forever. Lots of hype surrounding the z boys. They got beat time after time in the pool contests.

how do you know tat?

@AICfreak911 Well first off I think the movie was just OK, I say this because if you compare it to the Sony Pictures documentary it pales in comparison and the guy who did play Tony Alva did a good job and some pics of tony and shia look so alike, cud just be me tho

I think he's part mexican but grew up in LA

its funny how they're pretty much riding mini longboards

whats the song?

Sean Penn

Does Shia LaBeouf look eerily like Tony Alba or is it just me?

he looks like Blake from Workaholics

Lol, you don't believe that people posting on KZfaq are ever actual stars right?

Oh yeah... fuck

@trollingdouche wow, you really live up to your username!

Izeike did not cut tony for surfer sure .

and whats about jay adams man?¿