I believe the documentary is both an ethnographic study and work of entertainment. I believe that because the documentary was not a "normal," bland, documentary it was entertaining. The music, pictures, and footage of the skateboarders lent to the entertainment.
The informants were members of the skate teams, including the Zephyr Skate Team, skate champions, the Zephyr Surf Team, and founders of the Jeff Ho Surf Shop. These informants are important because they were apart of this sport at the time, they were the ones who invented new ways of skating from surfers, making skateboards, and surf boards. The interviews were extremely important because the information comes from those who were in this subculture.
The attitude type was "We don't care what you think, we are going to do what we want to do." They all were surfers and derived most of their style from their surfing experience. They all hung out at Jeff Ho's Surf Shop, skated in pools, at playgrounds, and down steep hills together. They were careful to not let outsiders in because they didn't want their "space" to be imposed on.
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