aahhh, the basement bbq... i remeber those days. yes, i still had much sharpening of my skills to do. i would like to think it has progressed from repetitve noise...
as for dvd's... q-berts vol. 1 is cool. it's like i said in another post to jax... when i got this dvd, i had pretty much gotten most of the scratches he shows you under my belt... except the really hard ones... which i have gotten alot better at. so, if you don't know any scratches, or you wanna learn the super hard ones, it's a good video. the second one i didn't really like, and think it was a waste of money.
no video can teach you style though, which is a key element in making your scratches sound good, smooth, and fluid.