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In the 1970's a group of teenage surfers from a tough neighbourhood known as Dogtown in Venice, California pioneered a revoltuionary new style of skateboarding. Riding the waves at the Pacific Ocean Park, pier, the Z-Boys, known for their aggressive styl e and hard street attitude, combined the death-defying moves of surfing with the art of skateboarding and become overnight sensations and local legends. With empty pools and as their canvas, the Z-Boys paved the way to what is now referred to as 'extreme sports', and created a lifestyle that spread infectiously to become a worldwide counterculture phenomenon. But all of this fame would take its toll on the friendships that they thought would last a lifetime as the sport that started out as an afternoon hobby turns into big business....