As far as I’m concerned, this is the most bullshit-free video ever made. Are there stupid flashy intros with people getting drunk and falling a lot with dramatic music playing? No. Is there a strobelight, techno music hippie shit editing with fifty-six cuts so that you see the same trick at three different speeds from four different angles? Nope. Are there a bunch of Modest Mouse and Built To Spill songs to scratch your balls to while you watch the skating? Sorry, homeboy. All these wonderful facts perfectly illustrate that all Canadians, with the exception of RDS a.k.a Shark Face Killah crew, don’t play that homo-thug shit. Baby Steps puts it down for people who want to see real, creative skating, without all the hoo-ha special effects and MTV editing that seems to make its way into this small skateboarding multimedia world of ours.

Every part in the video is solid, and the video’s 25 or so minutes of straight parts tend to cover all realms of skateboard trickery, from the gaps and rails (Jordan Hoffart), to the technical junk (Mr. Leroy Holmes himself), all the way to the creative stuff that nobody else you see is doing (Brad Sheppard). See, in Canada, people have heart. If there’s a huge plot of grass between a ledge and a bank, people skate through it. If there is some slightly upwards rock laying in a park, there’s not a snowball’s chance in hell that you’re not going to see them find some way of utilizing it. Here, in our section of the world, we choose to stay in a basketball court with a flatrail in the middle of it instead of going out and finding something to skate. Baby Steps has some valuable lessons for all of us.

If you are an advocate for skate videos devoid of all the pretentious talk of art, angles and Interpol that the hippies brought into skateboarding, then you owe yourself a favor in finding a copy of this video.

Creator: Rob Butterfield

Year: 2005

Genre(s): Skateboarding

Duration: 33 Minutes

Cast: Jordan Hoffart, Jason Gordon, Dylan Thorstenson, Pryce Holmes, Torey Goodall, Magnus Hanson, Alien, Swell, Sheldon, Brad Sheppard & several others.

Filming Locations: Canada, California, Harlem World, Europe.

More Info: To buy, go to the Quarter Snacks Shop

Trailer: Here