Stacy Peralta

Stacy Peralta (born 15 October 1957 California) is an American film director, a former skateboarder, team surfer and entrepreneur. He was a member of the famous Zephyr Skate Team (Z- Boys) and is considered a pioneer of the Vert- style as well as in the development of skateboards.

Life

Stacy Peralta grew up in a neighborhood called Dogtown in Venice Beach, a rundown place in California, where he tried surfing in the bay of the Pacific Ocean Park with his contemporary friends. However, this was usually possible by Zephyr Surf Team, a group of radical surfers limited. To compensate for the time Stacy began in the early to skate with his friends age. One of the heads of the Zephyr surf team, Skip Engblom, noticed this movement and soon founded the Zephyr Skate Team, better known as Z-Boys, where Peralta was not recorded. Only when the team (the Z - Boys) went to Del Mar and he went afterwards, they saw at a competition he could and he was accepted. With his teammates together, he tried to bring surf styles on the street and the Zephyr team provided these techniques in 1975 in Del Mar at a national competition for the first time before. The industry soon became aware of it and took many skaters of the team under contract, which consequently meant the dissolution of the Zephyr skate team.

With 19 Peralta was one of the most famous skateboarder in the time and won competitions around the globe. He was not only the first of his sport, which signed a sponsorship contract with a shoe company (vans ), but also with Tony Alva, the first, which was allowed to design the first official skate shoe as an athlete. Then he began, with manufacturers to develop new skateboard designs and met with his Warp Tail design the pulse of time. The board became the richest skateboard pad of all time, was an international bestseller, and brought the manufacturer G & S ( Gordon & Smith) big profits. Even television and guest appearances on popular shows such as Charlie 's Angels confirmed his omnipresence in the professional skateboarding sport.

Together with George Powell, he founded the soon -known skateboard company Powell Peralta &. Thanks to the financial retention Peralta was in 1976 set up the Bones Brigade, a group of skaters, for which he chose the best skateboarder in the time and the mitbeeinflusste the modern skateboarding strong. He started with Craig Stecyk to turn his first skateboard demo videos and created the foundation for many careers today famous skateboarders. One of the most famous films of this cooperation is certainly The Search For Animal Chin in 1987, which also Tony Hawk presented among others. The videos that he made for Powell & Peralta belong until today one of the most influential and were partly responsible for the third skateboard boom.

1992 Peralta began full-time work as a director and producer for television and Powell & Peralta left. His continuing love for the board manifested itself in 2001 in Dogtown & Z -Boys, an autobiographical documentary about the early years of freestyle skateboarding, and Riding Giants, a documentary about the Big Wave Tow - in surfing and. Dogtown and Z-Boys won the 2001 Audience Award and the Best Director Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Peralta also wrote the screenplay for the Hollywood feature film Lords of Dogtown ( Lords of Dogtown, OT ) (2005 ), which was, however, adopted more moderate in the skate scene.

Today he lives with his son in Santa Monica, California and is still active in the skate area. Peralta's experience as a skateboarder and documentary were incorporated into the video game Tony Hawk's Underground, where he played himself.

The riots in Los Angeles In 1992, Peralta was so thoroughly impressed that 15 years later he was looking for an answer to the question why it was in his home town for over 40 years again and again to civil strife. He made ​​the documentary about the two dominant gangs in Los Angeles: the Bloods and Crips to. The gang war between the two gangs has claimed in the past decades, 15,000 fatalities. This Peralta turned at least temporarily, from the sports genre and from the social to.

The deceased young jazz musician Austin Peralta is his son.