Lo Def

I'd like to take this space to direct everyone to something awesome in skateboarding.

Jeremy Elkin' newest video, Lo Def, is a low budget, short, gritty, 12 minute long free production featuring some of Canada's raddest dudes.

Riley Boland is easily one of my favourite skaters in Canada right now. He's creative, talented, gnarly and looks like a pussy, all things I like in skateboarders. Most of all though, he's an eccentric weirdo hippie who skates lots of tight tranny. And his bomb drop into the big O is unfuckwithable.

Josh Bos skates like he's Bobby Puleo but with spots that aren't as cool. Good part visually, although it's technically very lacking. Please note that Bobby Puleo can still lack all the technicality he wants, he'll still be forever awesome.

Hugo Balek seems really annoying, but extremely gifted. His ollie with that bonk off the chain was so cool.

Seb Labbe is skilled beyond reason; see his sequence in the newest Color for proof. There's, however, some kind of generic weirdness about him that makes him difficult for me to swallow. He would fit in well with all the current Krooked ams, which is appropriate considering he rides for Krooked flow. It's just strange to see someone nollie tre a set, then do a line with a 5-0 on a stair and a back 180 into a cellar door, and then do another line that starts with a nollie flip noseslide. His last two tricks are still mind boggling, despite my distaste.

This is probably the best video I've seen in a long time. Nothing has been this fun to watch, or this inspiring to go out and create something, in a long time.