The Z-Boys were a group of skateboarders in the 1970's from South Santa Monica and Venice California who are credited with inventing modern skateboarding and essentially creating the punk/skater subculture that now exists. Their name is derived from the name of the team they competed with together, the Zephyr Competition Team.
In 1971 Jeff Ho, Skip Engblom and Craig Stecyk opened the shop, "Jeff Ho Surfboards and Zephyr Productions", on the corne...
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The Z-Boys were a group of skateboarders in the 1970's from South Santa Monica and Venice California who are credited with inventing modern skateboarding and essentially creating the punk/skater subculture that now exists. Their name is derived from the name of the team they competed with together, the Zephyr Competition Team.
In 1971 Jeff Ho, Skip Engblom and Craig Stecyk opened the shop, "Jeff Ho Surfboards and Zephyr Productions", on the corner of Bay and Main Street in Santa Monica, CA. The first Z-Boy was a fourteen-year-old named Nathan Pratt. He was hired by Skip Engblom to work at the shop after school every day and over the next six years became an apprentice surfboard maker under Jeff Ho and the founding member of the team which would become the Z-BOYS. Allen Sarlo, Jay Adams, Tony Alva, Chris Cahill and Stacy Peralta joined the surf team in 1974. They were a rough and tumble group of teenagers from the “wrong side of the tracks” who made the surf shop their home away from...
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