America's Newest Sport

1966
11m

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America's Newest Sport is a short film made for Hobie. It was about his new skateboard and skateboard team. Hobie, as he always did, figured he could design something better. He came up with... Read allAmerica's Newest Sport is a short film made for Hobie. It was about his new skateboard and skateboard team. Hobie, as he always did, figured he could design something better. He came up with flexible trucks and clay wheels which sure beat the old steel ones. His skateboard "team"... Read allAmerica's Newest Sport is a short film made for Hobie. It was about his new skateboard and skateboard team. Hobie, as he always did, figured he could design something better. He came up with flexible trucks and clay wheels which sure beat the old steel ones. His skateboard "team" was a classic bunch of kids who performed state of the art maneuvers like riding a skateb... Read all

Director
- Bruce Brown
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6.6/10

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Director
- Bruce Brown
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6boblipton

At the Beginning

No one claims that no one ever stuck skates on a piece of wood before 1966, certainly not narrator Bruce Brown. He does claim for surfboard designer Hobie Alter the design that allows many of the maneuvers that form the basis of the modern skateboarder's repertoire. Some of the things Brown calls amazing are commonplace nowadays, but someone had to do them first.

You can see the connection between surfboarding and skateboarding, and that's one of the points that Brown makes. He brings to this film the same techniques he uses in his surfing film, as well as the same people .... although the skateboarders have younger afficiandoes than the surfboarders.

Kirpianuscus

nice

A smart advertising . For skateboards, for young America, about a group of boys and their passion. Poetic, seductive, nice. One of old short films remembering games and hope and joy and simplicity of life. Nothing special . Except a sort of nostalgia about a lost age. And the admiration for the well crafted film and its makers.