![]() That might sound like a weird complaint for a documentary about the world's greatest skateboarder, but with a 135-minute runtime, you start to feel the length after seeing so much sick skateboarding. In fact, there might be a little too much skating footage. Whether it's from his family's home videos or the underground tapes of The Bones Brigade, the first crew that Hawk joined as a teenager, you get to see this lanky kid pissing off older pros with his upward ollie, which he pioneered only because he was too skinny for inertia to give himself enough height above the bowls to properly do tricks. Since Hawk's career was rising alongside the increasing availability of camcorders and VCRs, there's an endless amount of footage of Hawk skating in his early years. Despite finally finding something that he loved, he was an outcast in his own sport. ![]() His lanky figure and unique approach to pool bowl boarding put a target on his back, especially when he started winning competitions and signaling the beginning of the end for the old guard of skaters. ![]() ![]() But despite Hawk's success, to those skateboarders who came before him, he was a nuisance. Even Hawk's father got in on the action by creating the National Skateboarding Association to regulate competitions. "Until the Wheels Fall Off" begins in the 1980s when skateboarding was enjoying one of several peaks in its popularity in the past 40 years. ![]()
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