Matt Hensley is and always will be the man!! He ruled!!

M, Ouija,, That was a EPIC summer! A lot went down.. I think that's the summer we learned impossibles and tre flips. and I was able to (FINALLY) lipslides the awesome small concrete benches @ local supermarket. what a awesome feeling rolling away fakie on a lipslide. esp if it's a short lipslide so it's like a 180 but barely touching the bench...Always loved the feeling of rolling away fakie on tricks..esp 180 flips over a candybar wrapper or manhole etc.....FastForward(ha youre VHS ;) So FF to the Tom penny era-- I can't think about rolling away Fakie without remembering his steez with every fakie landing. str8 gnar! but that summer was awesome and I remember that video being huge for me..I sooooo didn't handle to great exodus from H-street to Steve Rocco plan b. it bothers me now in my old age..i would love for Tony Magnusson to write a book...cause he went from being the king of skateboarding to his company folding..And it was H-street that dethroned Powell Peralta (b4 WOrld Industries/Rocco) seems like skating got ghetto once they left H-street for World.. whatevs.

89 was the most pivotal point in sk8ing, tricks were getting more technical and boards were changing for the better. Matt was def the man of the hour.

Definitely ahead of his time, backside flip over a bump to upright trash can in 88?! Grab or not, that was intense.

Green cargo shorts with the biker chain..forever.

Vans chukkas and a shaved head, with a slight hunch when skating.

Great choice of guests.

Stoked on this interview so far. Would it be too far a stretch to get Jason Lee on? Or Gonz? Or hell, since I'm making it a wish list, might as well top it off with Neil Blender... pull that one off and you will have nailed the interview of the century.

Great interview

that was great tommy thanks for making these...please consider doing a julien stranger one in the future

Trump sandwich. White bread full of baloney with Russian dressing and a small pickle.

It was crazy. It was Hensley mania. Then Plan b with so much hype. An incredible team. I imagine self doubt would creep in as people like Pat Duffy came from nowhere destroying largehandrails. Mike Carroll, and Rick and others like koston who where taking it to next level. Now it's different. U can do your own thing your own way and still be appreciated. Back then, if u weren't doing the latest tricks, u felt left behind. Skaters would stop doing tricks as trick fashion would play part. Like impossibles and late shoves were everywhere in 91. By 92 no one did them.

Ocean or Andy. Ocean was one of the best. Seriously underrated

Totally. The older skaters in my suburb worshipped Hensley in 1989/90. I was 10 and had a board, had seen Shackle Me Not and the Powell videos, but didn’t really start skating until I was 14 and Hensley had retired the year before. I have been fascinated and obsessed with the 1989-1992 era since, trying to find out what happened (SO much). I only had glimpses over the years from my friend’s older brother (the best neighborhood skater). The first revelation once I started skating again was when my best friend showed me a VHS dub of Video Days and Life: A Soldier’s Story. Then seeing the Questionable Hensley retrospective/retirement part helped shed some light. Thing were SO much different pre-internet; we really had to work for any relevant information about the skateboarding history.