This new documentary follows Hosoi’s career from young skating prodigy to the top of the skateboard world and his status as a certified “rock star” living a notorious life style with endless money to burn. Thats when his life begins a descent into crystal-meth addiction and an eventual arrest that led to him spending just over four years in a Hawaiian prison.
Aside from the T Rex, Ted Nugent, Joe Walsh and Deep Purple retro soundtrack, the 2001 documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys is a much better portrayal of this pivotal moment in skate culture.
Just as the lines of diverse music genres have continued to outgrow preconceived labeling, the world of “extreme games” is experiencing it
In the mid 1970
