Like my high school basketball coach implored, “Quit looking at your feet, you’ll never get anywhere!” This is true of almost anything, especially when it comes to running. Marathon’s are a competition, but they are also a celebration of city life, and in the case of the LA Marathon “urban life.” For Los Angelenos, it’s really one of the few days that makes for a good excuse to get out of your car and explore on two feet this wildly complex and eclectic city.

Rolling Stone called 1999’s Fruit of the Vine—the first film from filmmaker duo Rick Charnoski and Coan Buddy Nichols, aka Six Stair—“a seminal work of scraped knees, bruised elbows, and big air.” The filmmaking duo made the visceral, exciting Fruit of the Vine in homage to the world of pool skating, and the authenticity and spontaneity of skateboard culture finds itself infecting every frame of Six Stair’s work. Read on for their latest piece “K is for Kalifornia” …..