{"id":2308,"date":"2009-09-08T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-07-12T23:02:53","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T23:02:53","slug":"rock-and-extreme-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-and-extreme-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock and Extreme Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wb3_Tw-yuW8?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nFlipping channels one night last week I came to a screeching halt on the skateboarding documentary <em>Dogtown and the Z-Boys<\/em>. When this movie came out in the theaters I initially turned my nose up at it. I was never a skateboarder or had any interest in related &#8220;extreme sports.&#8221; That stuff always ran counter to my interest in team sports. My younger brother, however, has always run with that <em>X<\/em> crowd, and I do have a lot of interest in him and try to get my head around what he cares about. He loved the movie, so a few years ago I finally broke down and rented it. It was great! From now on, I&#8217;ll stop flipping channels whenever I come across that documentary, and I&#8217;ve since watched a few other documentaries on skateboarding and surfing. <\/p>\n<p>My oldest son thinks I&#8217;m trying to relive my youth, but I tell him I&#8217;m not. I&#8217;m really trying to better understand my younger brother and prepare for the road I can see my younger son taking. Watching <em>Dogtown and the Z-Boys<\/em> again the other night I was struck by the marriage of music and extreme sports. What other sports have ever been so closely related to a form of music? I guess some extreme sports lean more toward metal than punk, but I&#8217;m not yet sure when one <em>X Games<\/em> competition requires the cueing of speed metal rather than hardcore punk. I know nothing about NASCAR. Are NASCAR docs fueled by some special country or Southern Rock mix of music? Is there any other equivalent to <strong>skate punk<\/strong>? Wait, what am I saying &#8211; skate punk is the direct descendant of <strong>surf rock<\/strong>, both in terms of the sport and, to some extent, the music. <\/p>\n<p><em>OK, are there any equivalents to skate punk and surf rock? And whatever particular X Games sport is closely identified with speed metal&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Getting my head around the SoCal skater\/surfer scenes has recently had the added effect of helping me tune into the music related to those scenes. I can hear how the music relates to the motion of the sport. I wonder if there&#8217;s a rhythm to the sport I love most, baseball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flipping channels one night last week I came to a screeching halt on the skateboarding documentary Dogtown and the Z-Boys. When this movie came out in the theaters I initially turned my nose up at it. I was never a skateboarder or had any interest in related &#8220;extreme sports.&#8221; That stuff always ran counter to <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-and-extreme-sports\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[31,272,200],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}