Sammy Baptista "Hard Times but Good Times" www.skatesauce.com www.facebook.com/skatesauce Twitter & Instagram: @SkateSauce @SammyBaptista I remember Sammy Baptista from back when I got my first skateboard magazine subscription. It was a Transworld mag and on the cover was Chad Muska ollieing thru some trees. The main article was on the first ever TWS awards and Shorty's skateboards had swept almost every category except best vert skater - Best Street: Chad Muska, Best Style: Peter Smolik, Best Video: Shortys "Fulfill The Dream", Best Video part: Peter Smolik, & Best Team: Shorty's. Sammy Baptista was part of the Shorty's team and at the time was highly talked about since he was so young and could do crazy switch tricks which not many people were doing at the time. I moved out to Cali a couple years later and would see Sammy Baptista skating around local spots. We didn't get to know each other until a couple years later when I started to film. We filmed some clips and started filming more and more. When I started Skate Sauce it was a no brainer that Sammy would be part of the crew. This part consists of my favorite clips we filmed over the years for the beginning of the part. The