Z-Boys

The Zephyr Competition Team (or Z-Boys) was a group of skateboarders in the mid-1970s from Santa Monica and Venice, California. The aerial and sliding skate moves that the Z-Boys invented were the basis for aerial skateboarding today.

History

The crew, who began as a surf team, derived their name from the Zephyr surfboard shop in Santa Monica. Jeff Ho, Skip Engblom and Craig Stecyk opened the Santa Monica shop as Jeff Ho Surfboards and Zephyr Productions in 1971. The Z-Boys represented the shop in surf competitions, with the first member being fourteen-year-old Nathan Pratt. Pratt also worked at the shop and became an apprentice surfboard maker under Ho, Engblom and Stecyk.

In 1974, Allen Sarlo, Jay Adams, Tony Alva, Chris Cahill and Stacy Peralta, joined the surf team. The place that the team spent most of their time surfing was at Pacific Ocean Park, a once thriving amusement park atop a pier. Now abandoned and run down and nicknamed by the locals as "Dogtown". With large tilted, wood pilings jutting from the water, and not enough room for all of the surfers, Pacific Ocean Park Pier was an incredibly dangerous place to surf. Despite these dangers, the Z-Boys surfed it anyway. They would surf in the mornings, when the waves were the highest. When the pier waves died down after the early-morning hours, they would hang out at the Zephyr shop, running errands, doing homework, skating and flirting with passing girls. At that time, the Z-Boys saw skating as a hobby, something to do after surfing, but it quickly grew from a hobby into a new way to express themselves.

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Shōgo

Shōgo, Shogo or Shougo (written: 正吾, 正五, 省吾, 昭吾, 翔吾, 翔悟, 章吾, 昇吾, 昇悟, 勝吾, 鐘吾, 奨悟, 将吾 or 祥吾) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:

  • Shogo Akada (赤田 将吾) (born 1980), Japanese baseball player
  • Shōgo Arai (荒井 正吾) (born 1945), Japanese politician
  • Shogo Fujimaki (藤牧 祥吾) (born 1989), Japanese footballer
  • Shōgo Hamada (浜田 省吾) (born 1952), Japanese singer-songwriter
  • Shogo Kamo (加茂 正五) (1915–1977), Japanese footballer
  • Shogo Kobara (小原 章吾) (born 1982), Japanese footballer
  • Shogo Koumoto (河本 昇悟), Japanese anime director
  • Shogo Mukai (向井 昭吾) (born 1961), Japanese rugby union player and coach
  • Shogo Makishima, a fictional character appearing as the antagonist of the first season of the Production I.G anime Psycho-Pass
  • Shogo Nakai (中井 昇吾) (born 1984), Japanese footballer
  • Shogo Nishida (born 1982), Japanese fencer
  • Shogo Nishikawa (西河 翔吾) (born 1983), Japanese footballer
  • Shogo Sakai (坂井 将吾) (born 1988), Japanese footballer
  • Shōgo Sakamoto (阪本 奨悟) (born 1993), Japanese actor
  • Shogo Sakurai (桜井 鐘吾) (born 1984), Japanese footballer
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    175R

    175R (１７５Ｒ Inago Raidā, "Inago Rider") is a Japanese ska punk band from Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka Prefecture.

    Debuting in 2001, 175R has released seven singles, seven albums and four DVDs. The band's members include Shogo on Vocals, Kazya on guitar, Isakick on bass and Yoshiaki on drums. The band shared their second single with the band Shaka Labbits. The name 175R means "Inago Rider," which is derived from the goroawase of "175" plus "R" for "rider." Inago (蝗) means grasshopper in Japanese, as a reference to the popular Kamen Rider Series of tokusatsu television programs. In 2007, the group's single "Yume de Aeta Nara..." was featured as the ending theme for the film Kamen Rider Den-O: I'm Born!.

    Another one of their songs, Melody, was used featured in a music-related video game for the Nintendo DS called Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan. Unlike the other songs included in the game, Ouendan made use of an actual (albeit edited) 175R recording, instead of a cover version.

    Discography

  • Go! Upstart! (February 6, 2002)
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