Began a Netflix account last month and have actually been a bit disappointed in the movie catalog (apparently what I want to watch hasn’t been in streaming demand of yet), but what has been great is some of documentaries/movies. Figured I’d share some of the things I’ve been watching.

I was an adolescent in the late 80’s to early 90’s. Which, was an interesting time of pop culture, hair metal, to grunge music, folding & rolling your jeans, and some really horrid other fashion experiences. One thing that was a constant for many years of my adolescent was ‘skating.’ In the skating world Christian Hosoi was huge and my group of guys were big fans. So it was a no brainer to check out a “Rising Son” a documentary on him. I know some of his story from the rise and fall of skating, but he wasn’t on my radar the last decade. I was interested in checking that out & had an expectation for what was going to be shared.

The documentary is a nostalgic walk for me seeing old footage and hearing names, interviews with guys that I cut out photos from magazines and posted on my wall and more. As the story goes.. Oh, heck, I’ll let you hear a bit from him (not actually part of the documentary though):

In Rising Son he speaks to how he got a hold of a bible and searched through the scriptures, found the book of Kings and that was his transformative moments. From there he became a believer and accepted Christ. He’s now a pastor as well as professional skater.

I wasn’t aware of his transformation story, so that caught me off guard but really excited about where he was in the world. Seems he’s found a place of peace and knowing of self which is celebratory.

If you can check out the film and don’t care for the 80’s and 90’s of skating then skip forward as his story profiled in the documentary is really remarkable (at least for me).