“Cheese & Crackers” is the legendary 2006 skate short where Daewon Song and Chris Haslam take a mini-ramp in a garage and turn it into their own physics-defying playground.
It’s only 26 minutes, shot like a casual session, but edited like alien life forms just discovered skateboarding and decided to flex.
“Cheese & Crackers” is the #4 best skating doc in “The 15+ Best Skateboarding Documentaries”(ranked in 2024) that my colleague Rob Kelly put together.
You Can’t Make This Sh*t Up
- The “basketball hoop” trick: Daewon ollies from the mini-ramp and dunks mid-air before landing back on his board.
- Haslam boardslides a rail balanced between two moving skateboards—in a garage with barely enough room to stand back.
- Daewon nose-manuals across a ladder propped on the coping, drops into the ramp, and keeps going like nothing happened.
Watch “Cheese & Crackers”
You can watch “Cheese & Crackers” by clicking the video embed below:
Ratings:
- My Rating: 90/100
- IMDB Rating: 8.9/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: not yet rated
Director’s Note: Directed by Socrates Leal, this is one of the most rewatched skate videos of the mid-2000s—fusing casual setup with impossible tricks. The low-fi garage vibe hides some of the most technical mini-ramp footage ever filmed.
Release Date: 2006
My Review of “Cheese & Crackers”
The Setup
Shot entirely on a single mini-ramp built inside a garage, “Cheese & Crackers” features Daewon Song and Chris Haslam pushing the limits of what’s possible on transition.
Every trick looks like it belongs in a video game, but there are no cuts hiding bails—just raw skill, oddball creativity, and a lot of laughing between makes.
More Highlights from the Doc
- Creative use of props—traffic cones, picnic tables, a shopping cart—all end up as obstacles or launch ramps.
- Daewon’s signature manuals chained together with wallrides and pivot fakies, making the ramp feel infinite.
- Haslam’s impossible-to-late-flip-to-manual combos that look like they break the laws of physics.
- Intercut slow-mo makes every trick feel even gnarlier, especially the ones where you’re not sure how the board stayed under them.
- Even the “fails” are fun—half the charm is seeing them laugh off crashes and try something wilder.
Wrap Up
“Cheese & Crackers” is pure joy on four wheels. It’s proof you don’t need a big budget or epic spots to make something legendary—you just need a ramp, two magicians on skateboards, and a lot of duct tape.
Thanks for reading!
Heather Fenty, Guest Writer, Daily Doc