1970-ші жылдардағы америкалық скейтбордшылар тобы: Z Boys

Group of American skateboarders

The Zephyr Competition Team (or Z Boys) were a group of American skateboarders in the mid 1970s from Santa Monica and Venice, California. Originally consisting of 12 members, the Z boys were originally sponsored by the Jeff Ho Surfboards and Zephyr Productions surf and skate shop. Their innovative surfing based style and aerial moves formed the foundations of contemporary vert and transition skateboarding. The story of the Z Boys and the Zephyr shop have been popularized in feature films such as Lords of Dogtown and Dogtown and Z Boys.

The Z boys began as a surf team for the Zephyr surfboard shop at Santa Monica. Jeff Ho, Skip Engblom, and Craig Stecyk opened the shop, titled Jeff Ho Surfboards and Zephyr Production Team, in 1973, and they soon begin recruiting young locals to represent them in surfing competitions. 14 year old Nathan Pratt was the first member of the team; he originally had worked in the shop as an apprentice surfboard shaper under Ho, Engblom, and Stecyk.</blockquote>In 1974, Allen Sarlo, Jay Adams, Tony Alva, Chris Cahill, and Stacey Peralta joined the Zephyr team; these local youths exhibited street style and aggressive mannerisms both on and off the surfboard. The majority of the team lived in the "Dogtown" area of Santa Monica; their primary surfing spot was the Cove at Pacific Ocean Park. However, thanks to the invention of urethane wheels, the Z boys began to transition their surfing style to skateboarding.

In 2009, Tony Alva was inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame. In 2010, Stacy Peralta was inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame.