BUCKiT® #18-Peggy Oki: Zephyr Skateboarding Team (Z-Boys), Environmental Crusader
It’s 1975 and the National Skateboarding Championships are well underway. Scores of highly skilled riders are impressing judges with their 360s, handstands, and nose wheelies. The notorious Z-Boy’s from Venice walk toward the freestyle area. Their radical and unconventional skateboarding style has made them local legends and the only girl on the team is about to disrupt the competition and make her mark. Peggy Oki, the only female member on the original Zephyr Competition skateboarding Team was made famous in the award winning documentary DogTown and Z-Boys. The talented and unconventional Z-Boys were rebellious. Their style influenced and radically shaped the skateboarding culture of the 70’s and became the trademark vertical skateboarding that lead to today’s X-Games. Peggy takes us back to the DogTown days and her life in a culture where she learned to fight and take the hard knocks for what she believed in -- life lessons she needs today for her crusade to help save dolphins and whales all over the world.