A documentary exploring the rise and fall of 80s skateboard legend Mark "Gator" Rogowski. | dG1feEZGM01PZk85X2c
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00:00Mark!
00:02What?
00:03Where are you going?
00:04Skating.
00:05Did you clean your room and make your bed?
00:07Sure, yeah, sure.
00:13When I first met him, he must have been, like, 14,
00:16and he was skating pro.
00:17He was really, really serious about it
00:19because you could see it in his eyes.
00:20Kids loved him.
00:21They would just run past me and go to Gator.
00:24Gator, Gator, Gator all the way, yeah!
00:27He was always, like, you know, top three, top five.
00:29One of the best all-around skateboarders ever in the history.
00:31The mid-'80s was the genesis of skateboarding
00:34being marketed to the mainstream of American youth.
00:37One of the reasons I started Vision Streetwear
00:39was because of Mark.
00:40I think I need to be interviewed not only
00:42because I'm one of the most elite skaters on the circuit,
00:45but also because I'm one of the most blatant
00:47and outspoken jerks in the industry.
00:49We created a tour to raise the level of awareness.
00:52Gator was clearly a star of the tour.
00:54We created a huge press image for him.
00:56He took it upon himself to get good,
00:58but the entire business and marketing
01:00to the point where he got very good at it.
01:02Maybe too good for his own benefit.
01:04Fame is one of the worst drugs of all.
01:07They recognized him as a skate stud.
01:10You could have easily forgot where he came from
01:12and you're making money and a lot of money, you know?
01:15Street skating became the hopped in the news.
01:17Vert skating was completely out.
01:19It was a moment in time that was starting to be over.
01:24When Gator was drinking, anything could happen.
01:27What are you laughing at?
01:29What do you do with yourself when your fame's gone?
01:32I thought that Mark and I would get married
01:34and live happily ever after.
01:37You!
01:39You and I!
01:41It's all bad.
01:43I just hope that he realizes how he affects everyone's life.
01:55This is a Baryshnikov ballet of skateboarding.
01:58I apologize for making a mess,
02:01for going out of control,
02:03and for bringing a bad name for skateboarding.
02:06How do you cling to that charge?
02:08It kills me.
02:09Well, there is one thing to say...
02:12No, it's so popular.
02:14It still carries your reaction to the otherBOX
02:16Everything right now is...
02:19I'm off, you know?
02:20Perfect.
02:22Even though?
02:23My friend and sister will not releaseέλ fluid of him.
02:25He does not release selfie.
02:27He says he leaves spécialiciency.
02:28The mystery of my brother.
02:29When a girl does so Station starred
02:30By Otten Zoo.
02:33And the way he allows that schizophrenic