Barefoot: The Lee Ralph Story

A fantastic down-and-dirty documentary of a rare talent in skateboarding. Spread over 8 short episodes, we learn about the early years of talented skater Lee Ralph, his travels in Australia and the USA, and how he took the US skate scene by storm - before it all went wrong. Famous skaters, including Tony Hawk and Christian Hosoi, give us their memories of Lee Ralph, telling us some crazy stories about him, and how much they respected his skating ability. While his light only burned briefly, Lee Ralph left a huge impression on the people he met, as shown by how vivid their memories of him are. Lee himself gives his pithy views on his success and downfall. Barefoot: the Lee Ralph Story is a documentary you cannot stop watching. It may well go down as one of the most off-beat and interesting skate documentaries of all time.

Thousands of miles away from New Zealand and thousands of miles away from the sun-drenched California skate scene there was a bunch of skaters in an old disused factory building who had built themselves their own miniramp, a place where many of those skaters witnessed a massive mohawked dude wearing Doc Marten boots ripping about that miniramp in what has become an almost legendary skate session with the infamous "drop-in to flat bottom carve to frontside grind on the same side" going down.

It was incredible to personally witness and be a part of that event and it is also incredible to see this documentary finally come out and tell the story of one the gnarliest and raddest skaters there ever was.

Probably the greatest rags to rags documentary series you could witness , Lee is the essence is Hard core skater !

Waiting did build the excitement (15 years)' So we definitely got what we waited for !

Being a grommet in the late 80's and having Paraparaumu beach(Maclean park) Vert ramp was a blessing.........!

Regular Lee Ralph sitings and even getting dropped off by his Mum in a Yellow escort van ,being a pro skater was clearly glamourous , Watch it love it , love Lee and respect the man he is !

One of the greats but almost unheard of , But to the hardest of cores and the gnarliest of skaters Lee is spoken of on a regular basis , Witness for yourself , He did so much on a board and now we all know !

Got through the 8 episodes quickly, basically binged it!

Great doc about a great skater. Awesome archive footage also. If you're into, or have ever been into, skateboarding this is a must watch. It is a tale of how a small country, small population and one gnarly dude punched way over its weight. Many of the interviews highlight the level of respect Lee Ralph is held in by his peers, which is a pretty salubrious group of people.

Cheers to everyone involved in getting this story out there.

Bunch of good C's.

As a side note, I'm absolutely sure Jeff Grosso would have loved this documentary.

Now get your board and go skate!

After waiting literally a decade for this documentary - it did not disappoint. Quite the opposite actually.

The only thing that saddened me was it ended after 8 episodes and left me wanting more. Lots more.

The final episode left me truly emotional and genuinely sad thinking what could have been for Lee.

Excellent music choices throughout the series too. Nailed it there.

Great work. A+ show. I'm hoping for an episode of deleted scenes and bloopers. Or scenes that didn't fit but would make a mishmash episode of random Lee thoughts/quotes and jokes.

I loved this show. Thank you Alex, Lindsay, Johnny, Eddy, and of course, Lee.