Thrasher Magazine

Tony Alva invented the frontside air, the skater attitude and maybe even the dirt ‘stache. It’s about time he got his own documentary! OC’s glitterati converged for the very special premier of The Tony Alva Story.

Newport Beach, the jewel of the OC

Vans brass. They’re the ones who foot the bill on this masterpiece, after all

Here we go …

Hitting the line. First up: Pope Skates homies

Bring your planks, if you got ‘em!

‘When are they making that Variflex doc??!’ all the young people want to know

First lieutenants in the Grosso Army. We salute you!

Tight, tight …

Handsome surf fams, everywhere

Alva and Alba are actually the same name. Discuss among yourselves

And … the Director! Congrats, Mothra!

Filmmakers Buddy and Rick, barside with the legendary Ray Flores

And masterlenman John Malvino. Wow!

Cinephiles, DFL

OC legends Ig and Jinx, holding court shoe-side

The Indy/Waffle connection. Powerful

Holy shit! Groundbreaking Alva ad photog Raul Vega?! Not bad!

Oh shit! Daggers!

Wait, he’s cool. Close call

Rush at the front

‘Wait. There’s not gonna be any Trackers in this movie, is there?!’

Posters turned out killer, no?

Wafflemasters Steve Van Doren and Omar Hassan

Ed going in for some of those HB hook-ups

Is this the photo you were concerned about, Deanna?

None finer

‘John Fallahee?’

‘Never heard of him!’

Legend overload!

Harts and Neck, reliving their Pimpit.com heyday

Is Duncan the only one who remembers how to make a proper Alva Posse face around here?!

And we’re in!

Rush at concessions

Of course Steve offers to pay

Popcorn was free tho – Alva style!

It’s the little touches, no?

Beach Blvd and Fairfax, coming together for TA

Brigaders – front row!

Movie premiers are a great place to make new friends. Jus’ sayin’

Purps in the jean jacket ain’t falling for no flash in the eyeballs!

Whoah! I mean Ho!

Half the Pabiches, popcorned AF

Broken femur, professor Schmitt’s still having more fun than the rest of us!

Killer slide show on the big screen before the movie

Insane outtakes

And then … of course brunch happens when you’re Hollywood Coan!

Real talk tho

They nailed it

Charno, too!

Soak it in, Scorceses

Killer flick filled with all the incredible imagery and hilarious zingers you’ve come to depend on from the LL crew

And then finally, the Mad Dog takes the stage

After Christ’s embrace, of course

Q&A portion. Some serious knowledge got dropped

AND some laughs

But yeah, serious shit mostly

Outside, swag hounds feasting

They had a wall of all the killer Wynn Miller shots

Feast your eyes!

And then there was a giant film fest afterparty with fancy foods and people and the whole deal. I just ended up hanging around the skaters. Probably for the best. Cheers TA doc crew! Thanks, Vans! Keep it’ going TA!