Skateboarder Jeff Grosso narrates this entry in his Loveletters to Skateboarding series, turning the camera on Tony Alva, the Venice Beach rider who helped invent vertical skating in drained swimming pools during the 1970s. Archival footage tracks Alva from the Zephyr Competition Team, the loose group of surfers and skaters out of Dogtown who reshaped the sport around aggressive, surf-derived moves, through his split from Zephyr to found his own board company, one of the first skater-owned brands in the industry. Interviews with Alva himself sit alongside footage of the empty pools and asphalt banks where the style was built, plus glimpses of his crossover into punk rock and street culture that made him as much a countercultural figure as an athlete. Grosso, a skater and historian of the sport in his own right, keeps the focus on why Alva mattered beyond his trophies: the swagger, the business instinct, and the refusal to stay inside the amateur, clean-cut mold skateboarding had before Dogtown broke it open.