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They dominated contests, made hundreds of thousands of dollars, created the modern skateboard video, reinvented endemic advertising, pushed skate progression into a new era, and set the stage for a totally new form of skating called street style. The film culminates with the creation of their first skateboarding video, a watershed moment that not only showcased their incredible talent but also brought skateboarding to a wider audience, solidifying their place in history and cementing their legacy as pioneers of the sport.

In 2001, Stacy returned to skateboarding with his award-winning documentary Dogtown and Z Boys.

Random Quotes From Bones Brigade: An Autobiography

"You couldn't find a nicer group of fucking Boy Scouts than the Bones Brigade."
—Glen Friedman
"They weren't just guys who dominated competition, but they were also skateboarders who invented some of the most revolutionary maneuvers out of that entire decade."
—Stacy Peralta
"I didn't like his [Hawk's] style.

It has to do with trying to stay as immature as you can for the rest of your life. George Powell and Stacy Peralta created Powell Peralta and immediately began retooling how skateboard products were made and marketed.

George, who had started developing products in his garage and kitchen oven, went on to invent innovative equipment such as double radial Bones wheels, named for their unique whiteness, and trend setting skateboard decks.

It chronicles the evolution of skateboarding in the late 70s and through the 80s, the development of tricks such as the ollie, the caballerial, the mctwist, the general climate and lack of acceptance of skateboarding, the transition from pool skating to other types of vert and street skating, the personal struggles some of the Bones Brigade team members went through, and the inspirational triumphs this group of young teens experienced in the 80s.

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About The Movie

Bones Brigade:
An Autobiography

It's not a death metal band, an extreme diet club or historic dominoes association—the Bones Brigade was a talented gang of teenage outcasts.

It showcases the groundbreaking tricks and innovations that emerged from the backyard ramps and the competitive fire that fueled the Bones Brigade's dominance. Sign me up. Craig shrugged and simply said, "Bones Brigade."

Powell Peralta reinterpreted a military motif, warping it with pioneering skateboard graphics more suited to biker gang tats than decks.

It has been a while since i found myself reminiscing about my own young teen years but this film made me do exactly that, a mixture of thinking about friends and the freedom that skateboarding brought. "

—Sean Mortimer
"I would love to be able to tell you I'm wearing woman's underwear and I don’t know why I'm wearing woman's underwear, but I'm not."
—Craig Stecyk III
"They asked Cab, 'Could you hold this dead dog for an ad?' He said, 'Aw, I don’t want to do it.' I said, 'I'll do it!' I was Mikey that got all the cool stuff that they thought was lame."
—Lance Mountain
"It was the first time that I've ever had someone so serious and say, 'What's wrong with you?

By 1984, Tony Hawk, Rodney Mullen, Steve Caballero, Lance Mountain, Tommy Guerrero and Mike McGill compiled the most competitively dominant skateboard team in history. I'm going to buy a Moped!"

—Tony Hawk
"I learned early on from my own generation that one of the worst things you can do to a teenager is give them too much attention and money.

At some points Stacy even dares to contradict himself by crossing his statements with contrary ones of other skaters. I'm cashing in. That was when I really noticed that Hawk was doing some shit that didn't make any sense to me."

—Duane Peters
"The prize money for first at a pro contest was $150, but I was fourteen-years-old!

The industry broke apart as zeros dropped off checks and most top pros drifted away in search of second jobs. He was just an annoying little fucking kid with way too many pads on."

—Duane Peters
"Stecyk and I are spitballing ideas one day and I'm telling him that I don’t want to call this a team and I don’t want the word skateboarding in the name of it.

Endemic brands had started their own magazines and for the first time skaters controlled every aspect of skateboarding. I didn't think I could win because I wasn't skating that much, but I knew I could get in the top 5. He emits honesty, passion and eloquence which a lot of others don't. While spitballing about his stable of skaters, Stacy commented that he never wanted to call them a "team," a label that invited all kinds of jock baggage.

bones brigade autobiography wiki

On top of winning large, cheap plastic trophies, Tony Hawk and Rodney Mullen—two 13-year-olds initially ridiculed by their peers—created new ways to skate and pioneered modern technical skating.

Disgruntled at the way the skate mags played favorites, Stacy weaponized consumer VCRs by directing The Bones Brigade Video Show in 1983.