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Summary: The Answer is Never
Review: Is Jocko Weyland the John Steinbeck of skateboarding? Who knows. Who cares? What I do know is this is the only book that I couldn't wait to finish in a long time. If you grew up skating at any time in the 60's, 70's and '80's, and are still alive and literate, you MUST read this book. Get ready for all the long-forgotten memories to come rushing back. First skateboard? Check. First set of urethane wheels? Check. First pool ridden? Check. First skatepark? Check. First tail drop? Check. The list goes on and on.....this book will make you remember why you started skating and what a thrill it was and still is for many of us....
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Summary: Bones Brigade, and Santa Monica Airlines
Review: Jacko Weyland story is part skateboarding history and part life story. It's a nostalgic return to the innocence of skateboarding. The times where just seeing another skateboarder instantly made you friends. For those of us in our late 20's and early thirty's it's a nice time to think back on.
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Summary: Great Read / Important Book
Review: This book is absolutely loaded with memories, from us old surfers who skated pools, to the kids who skate all the parks around the country and haven't bothered to experience the joy of getting chased out of public skate venues--all of us need to read this work of art. All of a sudden, all these great books have come out about our little world: Hawk's book (HAWK, OCCUPATION SKATEBOARDER) takes us inside the life of a pro (okay, well, inside the life of a god); AGENTS OF CHANGE takes us inside the world of DC Shoes and they're all worthy of putting on our coffee tables or on our bookshelves and maintaining a little bit of history. I give this book a deep asian bow... I'll love it long time.
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Summary: yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This is a great book- first -for skaters it offers the first real unglorifed view of a skaters life (in all of its glory) second -for everybody else it offers a view of life intertwined with music and skating subcultures that may be the only real "history" of the actual experience. Not so much "I was there. . I was cool" stuff but the real view that the most people who did this stuff had- which makes it that much more powerful and inspirational. This book is also an important record of pre-MTV life when kids had to find things themselves and subcultures were different from niche markets. Interesting, smart, fun to read. . all around an honest and important book.
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Summary: Literary History of the Sport Lovingly Told
Review: Weyland chronicles the history of the sport from its ancestry in Hawaiian surfing through its recent emergence as a mass-marketed ESPN drawing card. While carefully charting this history, he intersperses lenghty (though riveting) tales from his own experiences growing up as a skater. These tales, which are indicative of how the skating mileau of the time shaped him, are a valuable time capusle to which many readers will relate. He manages to do all of this very artfully so that what seems to be a bi-polar stucture is nearly seamless. Few books measure up to the narrative and literary standards I expect from authors--but this one far surpasses them (a pleasant surprise). Novice skaters and parents who wish to understand skating culture should read this book and also Tony Hawk's Operation: Skateboarder. Both are fast reads (despite their 300+ pagecounts) and demonstrate two contrasting aspects of the sport and the corresponding worldviews engendered therein. Really, it's so good if Weyland waxes poetic on ice fishing I'd have to check it out. Please note that this book is a lot more fun to read than my dull review.
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