The Man Who Souled the World
April 2nd, 2007 by huphtur under archive, movies, skateboardingAfter the boring Dogtown, the so-so Gator and the awesome Jason Jessee documentaries, I was expecting a movie about the Bones Brigade next, but this weekend I heard even better news.
The most important skateboard documentary in history will probably be shown at the LA Film Festival this July. That’s right, the Steve Rocco documentary. The man who saved (or destroyed, depending who you ask) the skateboard industry.
The official site has a bunch of info about the movie, but no trailer. However I was able to snag it off the production Web site.
You know you wanna see this.
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:57 am
Nice find. I just linked to this over at TSM.
April 2nd, 2007 at 11:19 am
Thanks Mostly. Supposedly only George Powell and Rick Howard did not want to participate in the Rocco movie. And I forgot about the Holmes docu. But I haven’t seen that one.
April 2nd, 2007 at 6:21 pm
working on this skateboarding history project it’s almost impossible to find something post 80’s that rocco hasn’t affected in one way or another. can’t wait to see the doc – nice link!
April 2nd, 2007 at 7:40 pm
No Dave Carnie? That’s the only notable person that is missing. Plus, why the fuck is Ryan Sheckler in this film?
April 2nd, 2007 at 8:28 pm
“He was the repressed freestyler, who blossomed as a CEO.”
That clip never showed a single photo or clip of Rocco himself. Come on. Generate buzz early on I suppose.
Can’t wait.
April 2nd, 2007 at 9:35 pm
The Rocco doc looks cool. I’m really interested in the Jason Jesse Film too. I hadn’t heard about it until I read this post.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:32 am
Nice one… cant wait to see what he has to say!
April 3rd, 2007 at 7:58 am
In remember an interview with him back in the early ’90s where he was joking that he wanted to be known as the person who was responsible for the death of skateboarding. He certainly had a huge impact.
April 3rd, 2007 at 8:02 am
The MESS LOOKS LIKE HE’S ON METH,
IS ROCCO IN DOC??
DUDE WHO DID J JESSE DOC STILL CANT GET MUSIC RIGHTS, HE SHOULD JUST DO IT, LIKE ROCCO WOULD.
SK8 GRAPHICS HAVENT BEEN THE SAME SINCE ROCCO
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:13 am
BEST DOCUMENTARY EVER! Fuck, dogtown was soooo boring. Who gives a shit about holmes and jesse is mehhh. but rocco! skateboarding got so lame after he left.
rick howard ruined it.
April 4th, 2007 at 10:20 am
Even with the “too fuckin’ small” wheels era-Rocco made the 90’s a fun time. The graphics, the ads, and Big Brother Mag-wether you dug him or not-YOU KNOW you wanted to see what he came up with next.
April 4th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
That\’s awesome they are doing a doc on him. He cashed out at the right time that\’s why people hate him. Hopefully we\’ll get to see this flick. Haven\’t seen the JJ one and haven\’t heard much about it. Shecks is in the doc cause he was part of world when he was still in the womb.
April 7th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
I remember him walking with Brad D. (Vision) and saying we don’t need another Primo!?….
April 7th, 2007 at 10:28 pm
looks like a bunch of talking heads and i heard rocco is in it for less than 30 secs… i will kill to see it though.. this shit is my woodstock… fuck everything else..
April 11th, 2007 at 9:53 am
looks boring…the trailer’s just a bunch of people kissing his ass.
April 11th, 2007 at 11:15 am
Kissing his ass? Look again and pay close attention to Jim Gray and John Lucero.
April 12th, 2007 at 5:53 am
I don’t know where you get off, calling the Dogtown movie ‘boring’.
Compared to what? Sixty clips of talking heads saying that a certain businessman who happens to skateboard is “cool, but not THAT cool”? Ooooh… how profound and insightful.. again… for the 60th time. At least Dogtown marketed itself as an expose of a subcultural movement, rather than relying on attracting an audience by showing off how many celebrities can say the very similar things about the subject in question.
April 12th, 2007 at 6:20 am
i thought Grind was pretty sweet.
April 12th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
Dogtown itself definitely shaped skateboarding then but I think Huphz is referring to the movie itself…not the “movement”. The movie was boring. Who gives a fuck about some cool guys skating and wearing leather coats to the contests. They talked to the camera as if they dicovered the cure for cancer. Again, not to take away from the DT heads cause they definitely set off a new era in skateboarding. I just felt the movie was lame (like huphz). Compared to Riding Giants the Dogtown movie was a snooze and I don’t even surf.
April 17th, 2007 at 11:31 am
Dogtown was boring man, deal with it. Narrated by a celebrity commie, that 60 minute circle jerk isn’t worth 6 minutes of the story of one angry skateboarder vs a plague of bloodless and inhuman corporate monsters spawned by fat skip and the rest of those surf losers.
April 21st, 2007 at 1:15 pm
Inspired and thats just the trailer, one thing i have found the only people who think rocco was a dick are the people whos pockets were affected.
rocco come back please.
May 9th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
im excited as hell for this documentary, steve rocco’s the shit and just amazing :)
May 15th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
I’m really excited about this movie. For me this era represents my swan song to skating. My last summer where I was riding my Kris Markovich. We were all Santa Cruz/SMA guys, but there was something evil, tempting about World Industries. First it was the barnyard Vallely. Then it was the art of ‘focusing’ one’s board. What genius, let’s convince the kids it’s cool to snap their boards with one stomp….and thus they’ll buy more boards.
Then came Blind, then 101…it was all over, street skating was at it’s pinnacle.
Not too mention fashion, who still has a pair of Blind jeans?
May 23rd, 2007 at 7:55 am
This is going to rule! I was best friends with Steves little brother Sal and grew up with all the Rocco’s. Steve was like the Genius evil scientist and was always way cool to me. Good to see Angela and Pat in the movie. I don’t know where Sal is today but I hope he is okay!! LONG LIVE 5th Street Manhattan!
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:31 pm
The best guy in skateboarding. The most influential person you’ll ever meet. and not to mention a Genius at marketing.
May 28th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Danforth rules.
June 1st, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Steve Rocco: shitty skateboarder, sellout, artless, soul-less, primadonna. A wacky asshole who managed to turn parody graphics and shock value into million$. Let’s dress up and go play skateboarder! yay! forget rocco
June 7th, 2007 at 10:42 am
Sheckler was spooge in his old man’s sac when the WI empire was flourishing, why the F is that little fag weighing in?
also, an earlier post said Rick Howard was unwilling to participate in the documentary… any idea why?
onthegoodcoast@hotmail.com
June 10th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
T Mag probably shouldn’t have compared Steve to Hitler.
June 29th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
FORGET ROCCO?
Obviously you weren’t skating before Rocco and do not realize that everything that skating is doing today can be traced to his legacy in some way.
Rocco rules… I seriously can not wait
June 30th, 2007 at 5:18 am
flash video playback was too shitty on yer site, so I went ahead and reposted it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9R2Oc0txB0
great find…
July 3rd, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Thanks for the teaser. I posted a link on my site skateboardworks.com
July 3rd, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Yeah, the T-Mag comparrison of Rocco to Hitler was absolute retarded.
Give me a break. Its fucken skateboarding.
Guys like Rocco infiltrate all sorts industries in this country.
Yet us skate “rebel’s” take offense or find this man offensive?
Give me another break.
There is always going to be that – “Jay-Z” motherfucker who takes an industry and dangles its ass out for rape out there. Rocco was no different had someone like Howard decided to take Girl in that direction.
He made his money and he got out.
How many broke ass idiot skaters who made ZILCH, off this shit later come out in a doc talking shit?
TOO MANY.
It happens. There is only a handful of people getting rich off this shit and Steve happened to be it.
Hence the bitterness.
The trailer to this doc I will admit is a bit borish but all the people talking the shit about Rocco need to stop the bullshit.
Eric Koston holds this animosity but fuck his skills aside World was the first that started pro-moing his shit.
Dont believe me?
Go look at Koston’s flip on issue 4 or 5 over that Greyhound flip.
Everyone seriously needs to stop looking at this game as a “scene” game and realize it turns into a business. Unfortunate?- Yes. Necessary? – yes
August 16th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
Rocco’s willingness to counterstrike skateboarding’s “corporate establishment” yielded some very positive effects. The emergent litter of skater-managed teams that dramatically advanced modern street skating is evidence of that. Many pros were ready for a change, and the assemblage and cultivation of talent was ready for the taking.
However, the marketeering that followed was much more simple. Ads and graphics tailored to your average 13 year old kid are as expected. The expired and living offshoots of this legacy – Big Brother, Jack Ass, CKY, etc. – are all too predictable. Remember, there are lots of pimply faced 13 year olds with money to spend on boards, shoes, and DVDs. Rocco cashed in; now Mountain Dew, ESPN, and Nike are ringing up their registers. Who’s next? The little kiddies want to know.
September 9th, 2007 at 2:21 am
Yoooo! the old skate footage looks awesome, stuff i never saw before makes me wanna see this movie!
Gizmo jr and shit was too cool and a kid wo’s eating worms and a dog eating puke rulez!!!
September 26th, 2007 at 12:24 am
I snuck in to “MAN” premiere movie at their cast/crew party at ASR in sandy eggo. It was a whos who of the skate biz there. If a bomb went off in there no mas anything. They were all held in rapt attension . Anyway, movie kicked ass! and the skating footage from the dvd extras that they played before the film was super good. SUper entertaining, funny, good soundtrack, informative and killer skating. ThAT DVD WILL BE GOOD. It was waaay more relevant than (yes boring) Dogtown and no it doesn’t kiss his ass. At the premiere some dude tried to steal a purse, got tackled, he stabbed (!) somebody and cops closed it down — ha!
October 9th, 2007 at 2:36 am
man, the mid 80’s ‘bones brigade’ sk8ing was ok, but it was always at ‘tropica’ park in germany waiting for bitches like yo-yo schultz to stop hogging the ramp… so you learned ollies out front and shit… when rocco started pushing it changed! SPLAT!!! instantly, street sk8ing was amazing. all the vids at the time… h-street, useless wooden ect…… he was a Svengali..
rocco def. kicked ass. kinda sucks now the large corps own sk8…
October 12th, 2007 at 10:27 am
Sheckler used to skate for World so I am guessing that is why he is in this film. I might be wrong though.
October 17th, 2007 at 10:01 am
Rocco taco? Where’s Paco?
November 12th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
I was there when it was just Rocco, The Mess and Rodney.
Steve had some issues.
December 14th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
“The great freestyle swindle” concussion magazine article explained it all a few years back.
While the weird, nerdy, shunned freestylers were planning our future, we were doing bong hits and drinking beer and chasing women, at least that’s what we did at Cedar Crest. When vert died we could care less about what those short pant wearin’ kooks were doing. It was all just moving freestyle…with a fashion…and cartoons…and nudity…and LARRY FLINTS name attached to it. I got Big Brother magazines, it was funny to see puke and terds and boobies,
Besides haven’t you ever heard the saying “if ya wanna be rich, you have to be an asshole”. Well he’s one smart ass hole.
February 11th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Although my opinion is late, deal with it. The D-town video was not action packed and full of suspense. It’s a documentary. If you want a hollywood movie watch the hollywood rendition of it. Each of these documentaries involves a turning point in the last 30 fuckin years of skating. all this shit happened in only 30 years. Stecyk , Engbloom, Hawk, Hosoi, Peralta, Rocco, Miller, Mullen, Sheffey, Way, Duffy and many others have changed the course of skateboarding into realms never even imagined before. And some of them still do. Great things in business do not come from democracy. They come from doing it different and that’s what all of them have in common.
April 27th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Please post a link to the “free” streaming video of this documentary.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:28 am
THE MAN WHO SOULED THE WORLD
http://rapidshare.com/files/141557040/_The_Man_Who_Souled_The_World.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/141563384/_The_Man_Who_Souled_The_World.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/141569773/_The_Man_Who_Souled_The_World.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/141578427/_The_Man_Who_Souled_The_World.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/141582827/_The_Man_Who_Souled_The_World.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/141588473/_The_Man_Who_Souled_The_World.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/141593895/_The_Man_Who_Souled_The_World.part7.rar
Guy Mariano extras
http://rapidshare.com/files/141617172/Guy_Mariano_-__amp_quot_Man_Who_Souled_The_World_amp_quot__Extras.AVI
October 9th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
K this movie looks sick and i have read lost about rocco but man if ur talking about THE dogtown and z-boys documentary being boring, ur dead wrong. ahaha its a sick movie explaining to u how skateboarding got this far and y and who started this revolution
April 12th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
This reminds me off the best times in my life and everything that skateboarders stood for at that time. (Fuck Ryan Sheckler, you have some fucken srews loose, you were not even a fucking thought when this shit was going on you little fucker.)
April 12th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
All these big names in skateboarding owe Rocco (big tyme) they all should be thanking him, no matter how it went down.