This story is based where the skateboard culture is the most foreign, the Midwest. Derrick Cabrera, like all skaters, has a dream of being sponsored and one day going pro. He is an up and coming skater with all the talent but has the world against him. Parents, friends and schoolmates can't understand how Derrick has so much passion for something that has no future in their eyes. His crew of friends that are skaters is the only place he is truly accepted. But, as he gets better and better, the skater he looked up to the most becomes his worst enemy. In the sport of skateboarding a single trick that has never been done or conceived can bring you stardom in an instant. Derrick has that trick, if only he can make it. As he attempts to make this trick he is faced with skateproofing, a jealous friend and cops who have it in for him. Derrick finally gets arrested for skating on private property. After that his parents lay down the law and try to force him to quit skateboarding. Adding insult to injury, his girlfriend forces an ultimatum on him as well: "The skateboard or life with her." At that point, Derrick gives up everything and runs away with his friends to the Tampa Am contest in Florida. This is a weekend that can turn an unknown skateboarder into a future star. He sees it as his only shot to make it in skateboarding. Derrick's rivalry comes to a head in Florida when his crew of friends abandons him because of his jealous mentor. A top amateur's sister rescues Derrick by giving him a place to stay and convincing him to believe in himself. With all the world of skateboarding watching, Derrick finally makes the trick that shocks the entire skate world and instantly thrusts him into the spotlight. His dream of being sponsored has come true. Written by Rob Dyrdek
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SOUNDTRACK LISTING
Linkin Park - Lying From You
Fly Society - Fresh
Pharrell Feat. Nelly - Baby
Subnoize Souljaz - All Night Long
Celldweller - Frozen
Cut Chemist - (My 1st) Big Break From The Audience's Listening
Styles of Beyone Feat. Mike Shinoda - Second to None
Afu Ra - Prankster
+44 - Weatherman
Skillz - Take It Back
Duane Peters and the Hunns - Skate Away
Dead Prez - Hip Hop
P Love - Palisades (Extendomix)
The X Clan - Locomotion
Eric B. and Rakim - Dont Sweat the Technique
N.E.R.D. - Rockstar
Oh No - Chump
Swollen Members - Blackout
Mike Shinoda - Tampa Finals
Nas - Made You Look
Obie Trice - Wanna Know
N.E.R.D. - Find My Way (Chariot Of Fire)
Pharrell - Hoppin Over Fences
Le Rev - Escape Me
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CAST & CREW
ROB DYRDEK
DOB: 6/28/74
Kettering, OH
Rob started skateboarding when he was 15 winning his first competition 24 days later. That same year, Rob became the youngest member of the legendary G&S skateboard team. After only a short time as an amateur, Rob turned professional at the age of 16, joining the Ohio-based Alien Workshop team, forgoing his senior year of high school. As a professional, Rob attracted a growing number of sponsors, appeared in skate movies, on magazine covers, signature skateboards, and other merchandise. One of his best known sponsorship deals developed after he befriended the founders of the Droors Clothing line. He not only began promoting their clothing, but was given the opportunity to design a signature line of the first athletic skate shoe. The nearly 30 shoes designed by Rob helped establish DC Shoes. This exposure to the business side of skateboarding inspired him to venture into other projects such as the world-famous skateboarding training facility in San Diego and the now defunct hip hop label, P-Jays Records. At the age of 25, Rob rededicated himself to street skateboarding. He began competing for the first time since his early professional years and received a multitude of awards and international recognition. The success and accolades renewed his desire to give back to the sport. He quickly identified the niche that needed to be filled in order to advance the sport – tackling the struggle that skaters faced in finding legal street skating sites in the United States. As Rob experienced firsthand, street skateboarders are often ticketed, arrested and harassed by overly aggressive security guards and police. Rob realized that many cities were open to compromise but were not qualified to follow through on their end of the agreement and they built poorly constructed parks that do not meet street skating standards. He decided to task himself with providing street skaters with legitimate, safe and challenging street skating venues.
The formation of the Rob Dyrdek/DC Shoes Skate Plaza Foundation resulted in the Kettering Skate Plaza in his hometown of Kettering, Ohio. Working with the Site Design Group, Rob designed the skate park by educating himself in design and drafting techniques. He used photos of his favorite skate spots to assemble an illustrated book of tricks and obstacles for the plaza. The 40,000 square foot Kettering Skate Plaza opened in June 2005.
While building the Skate Plaza, Rob's long time dream of making a movie about skateboarding came to fruition. Rob’s foray into the film business manifested itself in the writing, financing, casting, producing and starring in his feature film, Street Dreams. The story is about a young skater from the Midwest who is suddenly faced with national exposure and personal adversity, reminiscent of Dyrdek's own rise to fame. In 2006, Dyrdek became a reality TV star due to the success of MTV's Rob & Big. The three-season series was picked up by MTV after a skit written by Rob in The DC Video became an underground sensation. The series ended in April of 2008. Don’t worry, Rob is coming out with a new show on MTV called Fantasy Factory set to premier in February 2009, "I’ll actually start filming a new show that I call “Fantasy Factory” next month, which will be more about my skating, friends, business ventures, and adventures that I’m going to be getting into over the next year or so."
RYAN SHECKLER
DOB: 12/30/89
San Clemente, CA
Skateboard phenom, Ryan Sheckler stepped onto an old board belonging to his father when he was just 18 months old. He took the board with him everywhere he went for the next three years. In 1995 Ryan came across his first skateboard ramp at his buddy’s house in his native San Clemente neighborhood. The rest they say is history.
After several years competing as an amateur in the prestigious California Amateur Skateboard League and winning amateur championship after championship. Shortly thereafter at the age of 13, World Industries encouraged Ryan to give up his amateur status and turn pro and immediately put an end to any and all uncertainty of his ability as a pro by winning every major professional event including the NBC Gravity Games, Vans Triple Crown, Slam City Jam and the premier skate event in the world, ESPN’s X Games becoming the youngest person ever to earn a coveted X Games gold medal.
Since turning pro, Ryan has dominated the contest circuit winning practically every title out there not only defending of his National Street Championships, but adding a World Championship along with the overall title in Skateboard Park at the Mt Dew Action Sports Tour. To this day Ryan is the undefeated AST Dew Tour Skateboard Park Champion.
In 2007 MTV Networks brought Ryan’s life to television with his reality show “The Life of Ryan”. It was such a sensation that MTV instantly signed on for a second season. Following the success of his TV show, screams at every contest and appearance Ryan made were deafening by girls girl’s sporting t-shirts bearing “The Future Mrs. Sheckler”.
At just 18 years old, Ryan has turned his name into a franchise with signature merchandise lines, huge commercial endorsements, charitable foundations (Sheckler Family Foundation) and television series among other ventures.
Between skate sessions, video and magazine shoots, trips and tours, Ryan tries to find as much time as possible to enjoy his other passions including motocross, surfing and anything relating to cars.
PAUL RODRIGUEZ
DOB: 12/31/84
Northridge, CA
I’m sure you’ve heard the name Paul Rodriguez. The 20-year-old Paul shares his name with his father, a famous Comedian and TV star. But, Paul is just as well known in skateboarding, as his father is in his profession. He goes by the name Paul Rodriguez, without the “Jr.” and is also referred to by the nickname “P-Rod” which was given to him by his older cousin.
Rodriguez excels in the genre of street skating, which uses environmental objects such as stair rails, curbs and benches as launching pads for tricks. He is well respected, however, for his technical mastery on a skateboard. Paul has been called “one of those few skaters who are born to skate.”
P-Rod is so highly regarded as an athlete that he is the face of Plan B Skateboards and one of only five people in the world with a shoe named after him by Nike. In 2005 Nike SB released it’s first signature model skateboard shoe, the Zoom Air Paul Rodriguez, and Rodriguez has the distinction of being the only Hispanic to receive a pro model shoe with Nike as well as the first skateboarder to receive this honor.
When he’s not out skating the streets or his own private training facility, he may be just hanging at the mall or seeing movies with friends. Paul enjoys shooting videos, but loves spending his time skating with his friends at his favorite spots. For having success at such a young age, Paul remains very focused and grounded.
TERRY KENNEDY
DOB: 3/27/85
Long Beach, CA
A native of Long Beach, California, Terry Kennedy aka TK aka Compton Ass Terry came from humble beginnings and picked up skateboarding at the age of 14 after seeing close friend and fellow pro Evan Hernandez making a living riding a skateboard. TK quickly realized that this was a legitimate way of “making it” in life rather than fall into the world that surrounded him of drugs and violence which left Terry with 2 gunshot wounds in 2005. So began his career of unheralded competitive and media notoriety. Early in his career TK was selected as Team Captain for renowned music executive and recording artist Pharell Williams shoe brand Ice Cream. TK has appeared in rap icon Snoop Doggs “Drop it like it’s hot” video as well as ABC’s family show “Switched”. TK also maintains a close bond and friendship with fellow pro and reality TV star Bam Margera appearing in countless episodes of Bam’s hit MTV reality series “Viva La Bam”.
TK sees skating as his job with rarely a day passing that he’s not out in the street s perfecting his craft. While admitting his passion for the sport, TK is the first to acknowledge his appreciation for everything that skateboarding has brought into his life. Terry remains undaunted in his quest to be one of the elite athletes in the sport and a household name.
RYAN DUNN (RIP)
DOB: 6/11/77
West Chester, PA
Ryan Dunn is best known for his appearances on Jackass, MTV's Viva La Bam, and Homewrecker. In addition to being a main character in Rob Dyrdek’s Street Dream, Dunn played the main character in Bam Margera's 2003 film Haggard, which was based on a failed relationship Ryan had experienced.
Dunn is known for wrecking cars; he once flipped a car 8 times into oncoming traffic with Bam Margera, Jess Margera (who suffered a cracked wrist), and Chris Raab in the car. Years later, while filming for Jackass: The Movie, Ryan was driving a golf cart with fellow Jackass Johnny Knoxville where it was decided that he would launch the golf cart over a sand trap and into a plastic statue of a giant pig, and the statue would simply be crushed. However, the statue did not crush but instead forced the golf cart upside down landing on Knoxville. They stopped filming the skit at that point.
In 2005 MTV gave Dunn a show of his own entitled Home Wrecker. The show featured Dunn helping people get their own back on friends who had victimized them by "wrecking" their homes.
Street Dreams also features the talents of well-known skaters with cameos made by:
-Stevie Williams
-Jim Greco
-Brayden Szyfranski
-Karl Watson
-Josh Kalis
-Mikey Taylor
-Devine Calloway
-Sean Malto
-Erik Ellington
-Tyler Bledsoe
The Skate Crew
Most skaters in America grow up with the same type of struggles. They are generally outcasts in their schools and communities because they are considered weird or derelicts. This is usually why most skate crews in Everytown USA generally resemble each other. They are comprised of a few different types of personalities that are highlighted below. Note: there are few other people that seldomly pop up in skate crews like the Wily Old Vet, Bitter old tranny dude, hometown hero etc.. but they are rare and will be skipped for this.
The Golden Boy:
He is the true talent in the crew and the most likely to get sponsored. Usually a quiet kid who is focused on skating and is always ahead of everyone in the skills department. This is the kid that the crew usually rallies behind.
The Man Am:
This poor soul is probably the worse off in the crew and usually the last to “get it”. He is usually more of a hard worker than a truly talented skater. This guy usually just doesn’t have the talent to get over the hump and push through to the next level. There is a spot for him on the flow team of a company but the buck stops there.
The Party Homey:
This is a guy who spends as much time skating as the rest of the crew. He loves the lifestyle as much as the act of skating. He has talent but generally is just too focused on partying and chicks to really take his skating anywhere. He is always down to ride out wherever the crew is going and is usually the crews party and girl connect.
The Filmer:
Filmers are a very unique type in the skate crew. They are the guys that have every video, skate mag and the biggest wealth of knowledge about who did what trick where and every skate spot in a ten county radius. They have minimal talent but a massive love for skating, which is usually what leads them to pick up their first camera and start filming. Their dream is to either be a salaried filmer for the golden boy or a company. Filmers are usually great motivators and the McGuyvers of skating.
The Reckless Tough Guy:
An asset and a liability to every crew. He is always down for whatever, whenever. Loves to skate and is usually the first guy to get into a fight (security guards or house parties) or get his homey’s back in a fight. His wily behavior is always forgiven because he is so down for his crew. He isn’t going far in skating but that’s fine with him as long as he gets to be along for the ride.
SKATERS VS. HOLLYWOOD
Skaters have always had a tumultuous relationship with Hollywood and the way they have been portrayed in the movies. As a subculture, skaters by nature have always shyed away from anything as large and grandiose as Hollywood, but the few who have dared to brave the bright lights of the marquee have generally gotten their asses burned.
A large part of this is due to the fact that Hollywood has always been an arrogant beast that generally does not care to portray anything other than stereotypes. Add in that no skater has ever been in a position to ensure that things are kept “real”, and you have a recipe for skaters to always look like burnt out surfers and horribly chopped up tricks on the silver screen. This is not to say that every time skaters have heard of a movie being made about them, they pray that it will be done right and at least show them or the skating in the right light. For some reason it just has never fallen into place and the culture at this point has just given up hope and adopted a cynical attitude towards anything to do with Hollywood and skateboarding.
Hollywood’s first largely notable attempt was Thrashin’ in 1986. The movie was about two rival skate “gangs”, one from the valley know as the Ramp Locals and the other from Venice Beach know as the Daggers. While there are many notable faces from skateboarding at the time, the movie’s biggest missteps were including a skate joust and culminating in a 20 mile downhill race for a corporate sponsor. At the time the most prominent form of skating was vert and pool which was barely even addressed in the movie.
Next up was Gleaming the Cube. The title was a term that Hollywood thought skaters used to describe skating to the layman but was actually never used by a single skater. In the movie Christian Slater is depicted skating street, vert and freestyle at various points. The first problem being that each stunt skater is a different stance (goofy or regular) in each skate scene. At the end of the movie the whole Bones Brigade makes an appearance as Christian Slater does an early grab air off a jump ramp that is edited to look as if he launches across a fifty foot stretch of highway and lands on the bad guy to knock him out. The air is another oversight by the moviemakers because it is just purely not possible and looked amazingly corny.
The most recent attempt by Hollywood to cash in on skateboarding was 2005’s The Grind. Whoever did this researched some of the fundamentals of skating but that was all they felt justified to do for this mess of a movie. I will only give a short numbered list of the major crimes against humanity this movie commited as any skater could write a novel about it.
1. In the opening skate sequence the stunt skaters is regular foot and the actor is goofy.
2. The “bad guy” skaters look like a late 90’s rap group in XXL matching sweat suits.
3. When the pro Jimmy Wilson tells Eric the main character that if just keeps up his skating he will get sponsored, Eric goes off and starts his own skate team called “Super Duper”, nothing more need be said…
4. The final big vert trick is chopped and edited from many different tricks. It looks like a frontside 360 halfcab heelflip indy but could be anything from a mctwist to a kickflip indy.
So over time a few of these titles have become novel classics to skaters for nostalgia reasons but never before has Hollywood gone to the depths to really make a movie that is entertaining and actually manages to not play skaters out.
Times have changed…
SKATERS VS. PARENTS
Let’s start off with the obvious, parents. Of course Will Smith said it best with “Parents just don’t understand” and they can only be partly blamed for the reasons behind why most of them don’t want their kids skating. Broken bones, possible peer alienation and no foreseeable career all add up to big negatory in an adults mind.
SKATERS VS. SKATEPROOFING
Every skaters worst nightmare. You see a spot you want to skate from the street only to roll up and see it has been skateproofed and now you are forced to cut the knobs off. The guy who invented these literally got hundreds of death threats once he made a website about his awesome contribution to society.
SKATERS VS. JOCKS
This rival is as old as anyone can think. Ninety nine percent of skaters pick up skateboards because they don’t want to fit in with the uniformity of organized sports. You seek something more individual that speaks to you and this has always generally threatened by this. Most jocks subscribe to the “pack mentality” and anyone who doesn’t run with said pack is a target for ridicule by them.
SKATERS VS. COPS
This is the equivilent of good versus evil to skaters. Cops and guards come with all types of attitudes toward skaters but no matter how cool a cop is they will never understand skaters. They view skaters as derelicts who purposely go to places to destroy property or deface the place. What we do does mess up property but we are generally approached with hostility or aggression when more often than not if asked to leave we will. There is little chance this rival will end in the near future…
SKATERS VS. CHICKS
Simple…we aren’t the most popular guys in school and don't have a lettermans jacket to give them once we “go steady”.
A SKATER'S LIFE
If you think that all of the struggles in your life because of skateboarding are any different than the next skater’s, think again. Every skater’s struggles are the same no matter where you go and we all go through it, it is what makes us who we are and the rest of the world what it is. Let’s get into all of the obstacles in a skater’s life shall we…
SPONSOR ME
The dream of most skateboarders today is to become a sponsored skater and go on to eventually having their own pro skateboard and living the life of a professional skater. There are only a select few avenues to accomplishing this. One is just getting noticed by a pro or team manager. Unless you live in one of the few major California cities where the skateboard industry is concentrated, the chances of that are slim to none.
The most used route is the tried and true “sponsor me” video. The sponsor me video is to skaters what the demo tape is to a music band and a part of what drives skateboarding. Some of the most innovative tricks have been on sponsor me videos done by the hungriest of unknowns. It is a compilation of your best tricks that highlight who you are as a skater. Once this is done you send it to the team managers at the companies you like in hopes that it fits with their team. If you’re skills are up to par, the team manger will send you product and you will become a part of the “flow” team. Not always, but it does happen where everything falls into place and a skater is asked to immediately join a team as a full amateur.
The sponsor me video is the outlet for 99.9% of skaters to get noticed and begin their skating careers.