NEWABLOOD
BY MORIZEN FÖCHE
WITH A FORWARD BY JOHN SMYTHE
Crank up the old tape deck and run it at the
wrong speed. It's time for another one of those
Dogtown funeral dirges, right? Think they're gonna
tell us about Santa Monica being the birthplace
intimate
inte
ta primer of skate
etc.? Wrong, this is not a p
history. Besides, if you don't know...
history.
of the skate/sport, or the details about
Z-Boys, etc.
The subject at hand is the peculiar variant skate-
The subjec
uniquely
style inherent to the area. Simply stated, why do
style inherent advance year after year?
the D.T. boys ways had their own scene.
types have always
Dogtown of media faves such as Natas
The current crop of
Jesse M. and Christ are only the proverbial tip of
the iceberg. In the region there exist hundreds of
of blowing out many of
unknown types capable
today's so-called pros
Propoganda? Judge for yourself; consider the
past, ponder the present and surrender to the
future.
On any day in D.T. any number of prominent types
such as Jay Boy, Muir, Peralta, Alva, et. al. just
might pop out of re
t of reclusion to enforce the accepted
codes of conduct. The law of the land is
local codes of being the dominant
de in the ride being town
honor, with pride in
Dogtown
Action,' not 'acting,' is the dial-
standard. Act
industrial-
creed. On the streets where they live, commercial-
Sam is not the norm. (For Mr.
ism
ists
vample, local industrial
Ms Mr. Muir of Dogtown Skates and
Dogtownally been
ave each personally been
of S.M. Airlines, have each dollar plus
revious million dollar
rong end of previous exploitation,
Skip, of S
on the wrong
em generation to
skate exploitation scams.) With such exploita
such tales being han
handed dakaters opt for
down from generat
generation, is it any wonder that
thrills far from the media limelight