Stacy Peralta on Dogtown, Skateboarding Empty Pools, Powell Peralta, Bones Brigade and Filmmaking

Rad Season Action Sports Podcast

English - October 31, 2022 16:00 - 48 minutes - 33.6 MB
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Stacy Peralta, Co-Founder of Powell & Peralta, award-winning film director and one of the most influential skateboarders of all time.

To say Stacy Peralta had an impact on skateboarding and action sports culture as a whole is a bit of an understatement. Stacy grew up in Venice, California. At the time when he started skateboarding, it didn't even exist as a sport. He joined the Zephyr Surf Team along with Jay Adams and Tony Alva. They formed a skateboard team and the rest is history. Stacy went on to tour the world as one of the first ever pro skateboarders.

Stacy knew that having a career as a pro athlete wouldn't last forever. He wanted to remaining in skateboarding and started a skate company with George Powell called Powell Peralta. He created the Bones Brigade, a team of rat bag amateur skateboarders including Tony Hawk, Rodney Mullen, Steve Caballero and it became the greatest skateboard team ever. At the same time he pioneered the action sports video with the Bones Brigade Video Show and the Search of Animal Chin.

Always evolving Stacy decided to moved career paths into film directing. His documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys based on his life won the Audience Award and Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival.

We sat down to record this episode in Ericiera, Portugal after Patagonia's European Premiere of his latest film documentary, The Yin and Yang of Gerry Lopez.

Special thanks to all the people involved in making this 99th episode of the Rad Season Show:

Patagonia, Powell Peralta Archives, Zucalli Media, Mind Act, Susana Metzger, Henrique Escopelli, Fernanda Zandavalli, Hotel Vila Gale, Ericeira

You can follow what Peralta is up to on Instagram at peraltastacy

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