In the last few years, skateboarding legend Tony Hawk has made the transition from a gutsy skatepunk to celebrity status and as of late we've seen him appear in videogames, t-shirts, toys, and even as a guest on the longest running TV sitcom in history, The Simpsons.

Last year, Hawk, along with fellow skaters Bob Burnquist, Bucky Lasek, Andy MacDonald, Lincoln Ueda, and Shaun White teamed up with motocross riders Mike Cinqmars, Mickey Dymond, Ronnie Faisst, and Carey Hart as well as BMX riders Matt Hoffman, Dennis McCoy, Dave Mirra, John Parker and Kevin Robinson and put on a show in Vegas called Tony Hawk's Boom Boom Huck Jam that would allow the whole gang to strut their stuff on a huge ramp all at the same time with live performances by The Offspring and personal favorites Social Distortion providing the musical accompaniment.

Plenty of the behind the scenes crew and the performers are interviewed in segments that are spliced into the documentary footage, and hearing these guys talk about what all was involved in putting together a show of this magnitude with such a high degree of risk involved for the performers was pretty interesting.

Likewise, Mike Ness from Social Distortion and Noodles from The Offspring are both given a chance to speak about how they were influenced by skateboarding in their younger years (Ness claims his kids would have never forgiven him if he hadn't played at the show) and some live clips of both bands performing at the event are showcased for a few minutes as well (though I would have loved to have seen more of the band actually playing).

Probably the biggest aspect of the production was putting the stage together in such a manner as to allow the skateboarders to do their thing in the center ramp, the bmx riders to jump over them on the center ramps, and the motocross guys to jump over everyone on the outside ramps. It was an insanely complicated event to co-ordinate and it didn't occur without it's share of accidents and mishaps.

The end result though, I have to admit, is pretty impressive and we get to see the fruits of their labor at the end of the documentary in which we see the show, introduced by some scantily clad ladies, in all its glory. The skaters hit the ramps, the BMX crew flies over them, and the motocross riders zip all over everyone else all to some great music and a wild laser light show. The fans are obviously into it the performers put on a pretty amazing performance and it all comes together in the end to make all their work worthwhile.

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Tony Hawk's Boom Boom Huck Jam is presented in it's original 1.33.1 fullframe aspect ratio. Unfortunately, the disc does suffer from poor compression and a semi-low bit rate so it's not looking as hot as you might want it to and is in fact riddled with artifacts and some edge enhancement. I'm guessing that the entire production was shot on video as well, as it does display some video noise as well. Overall though it's about average for a shot on video sports documentary and it's easily watchable, it just isn't going to wow anyone.