Some stuff I thought of while watching this... O and Neil Blender had a band together called Olivelawn. The number 43 is also used in the bar business. It stands for someone who is still allowed in the bar but is treading on thin ice. 86'd being banned from the bar. Also, I used to skate sponsored division in street contests back in the 80's. During practice at a contest in 88' in Ocean City MD, I was doing fs 180 No Comply's popping them over a foot high and putting my foot back on while the board was still at it's peak in the air. Sean Sheffey saw this and loved it. I showed him how I did it. Still one of my favorite skateboarding memories!

Back then in the 80's Ray Barbee had an incredible style and skills. Check his Ban This video part skating streets of LA. A must see classic.

Natas made the no comply rad. He was the first skater with a board with a double rocker tail so he had hight and snap with his ollies and his no complys where launchy

Dude you definitely deserve way more subscribers

Jeff Grosso talks about No Comply in one of his Loveletters to skateboarding videos(I think). He said/joked that the reason they are called No Comply is because when you smash the board into the curb to get air, you don't comply with the curb.

Ben Job should definitely get a mention here. He was the first person to "flip" a regular 43. And just for the books, a "No Comply" is done off a curb or off flat and go straight. 43's or "Step Hops" are done off flat and turn. Two separate tricks. I know you outlined that, but they are what they are. But check out Ben Job, Shackle Me Not. Mind melter. No curb no comply's over stuff, as well as no comply boardslides, one footed wallrides, wallride "nollie" out to fakie, and an incredible yo-yo/invert on a regular crust bank. Complete mind melter. And then "disappeared"

I remember seeing Otis doing step hop 180s at the top of the low side of the bank in the Etiwanda Super Ditch(aka Back Door) in 1987. It was strange to see because he was a big guy and did this trick consistently that I'd never seen before. A No Comply off of nothing to 180 was new for me. I asked what he called it and I distinctly remember him say it was a "No Handed Boneless One".

Nollie No-Comply late varial flips. You start with your front foot in the heelside pocket of your nose with your toes facing forward at a 45° angle and your back foot near your back truck with your toes hanging off, your shoulders opened up. Then you slide your back foot off toeside and give that nose a little pop while also pushing the board forward a little bit. After your board has popped you lift up your front foot and pull it back in a way that you hit your board with the inner side of your shoe (right behind the ball of your foot) on the heel side rail somewhere between the front truck and the middle. Your board should then flip like a nollie varial kickflip. Catch it with your front foot, hop back on with your back foot and you´re done. It´s pretty weird but it´s a good looking trick and it keeps people wondering what you just did. Also it´s not nearly as hard as it sounds.

In Norfolk VA late 1980's we called the 180degree version (frontside or backside) 'twenty two'. We'd say "Ray Barbee's second solo trick in Public Domain was a frontside 22 to revert.".

These videos are seriously educational and super interesting. You deserve way more subs bro.

I like your new upload schedule. You posting every day or so was great, I just would never really get around to seeing them all. Now I see them all and look forward to the next!

I like Battagliotti hand flips - basically a no comply Sal flip. Mike Vallely told me that's what they are called, according to him (he did one and said the name - which I mistook as a mattagliotti flip - in a trick tip video years ago which I can no longer find, so I asked him online a few years ago and he responded). They're fun to do into manuals, on banks, and down stairs and drops.

in 1986 i learned the no comply as a curb bonk straight no hand boneless. some time later i learned a 43 as a 180 no comply on flat. we never mixed up the names. a no comply was one thing, and a 43 was considered a completed different trick. i was surprised years later when i heard kids calling a 43 a no comply. i was like nooo they're different tricks with different names! never called them step hops

The No Comply is still one of my favorite tricks. I could skate a parking block all day long and have a blast.

My favourite is 180 no comply. I recently learned it switch, which showed me how hard it really is.

whoever and wherever no complys came from...Barbie is king of them..all the variations.

Just found this channel by accident while Looking for John Lucero videos. Love it. Great job 👍😃

I went to high school with Orb so I called it a 43 before I was told it was called a No Comply.

your videos are so addicting, dude! keep it up

This was awesome Rad Rat. I love no complys. Always have done. X

I love rad rat. Hoping for more content when you can. Thanks for all you've done! Love your deep digging in search or the truth and history !

very cool video. I remember most of those ads and step by steps you cited

your vids are the best.thanks for all your efforts teaching us

Great history lesson, you sure do your research. “O” has some footage with Neil and Lance in BanThis. Also the no comply flip hand grab is Brennan Schoffel ( first trick during Matt Hensley segment).

Awesome vid! Subscribed 👍

43 shifty. was where you pivot back 180 on the back trucks. learned every 43 variation from watch ray barbee in powell video

Hensley and Barbee elevated the No-Comply into stylish acceptance

I skated in that era. This trick has a lot to do with the fact a lot of people couldn't ollie back then. So they would no comply into tricks, up a curb etc.

My favorite no-comply trick is the No-Comply Impossible (although judging by Instagram and KZfaq, it's now called the Strawberry Shake). Probably because it was one of the first tricks I learned when I started skating again and was still relearning how to Ollie. I just like the 1-2 step motion and the way the board wraps around your foot when you do it clean.

no comply fs 360 is the best! I can do it all day and not get tired out it.

So many fun variations- the frontside shifty is fun- backside 360 (air) or yes, evento revert- ollie to no comply (ollie up and then stephop the obstacle for bonus height) no comply flips as one wheel hits the curb and creates a flip-going super fast and straight off the knee on flat where the board gets verticle off the knee. Up stairs and down stairs etc...etc...!

When I learned them (around the Ray Barbee era), they were called "43 to shifty"...the shifty being a revert or pivot, I guess. I learned them in both directions, frontside and backside (43 and 34?). They were super fun. Want to learn them again. I'm much older now though, so taking it slow. Great content. Very well researched and presented.

Straight no comply over concrete bench when you time it right and have enough speed you bounce off the front edge and sail over bench if you hit it right the from of the board hits knee and swings down just before landing, second favorite is the 43 shifty( so stylish) and the slide 43 crazy how far people are taking all those step off tricks today .

That Jeremy Klein fs flip always gets my goat.

thanks a ton! will def rewatch. always wanted to know more...think they need more credit---and are getting the credit they deserve. good starting out trick--ya?

Don't know who invented it but Matt Hensley..popularized it

Honestly, I think you could give it to all of them. All of them were known to skate with each other pretty often. 3 way tie.

So great that no-complies finally are coming back. Since the early days of this trick, I enjoyed it a lot, and it provides countless opportunities for inventing varitions; no other trick, not even the ollie does. In fact, it seems the aspect of true style in skateboarding, established in the late 80s to early 90s, is being apreciated, understood, and implemented by todays generation into their skateboarding again. I think the tricks transporting the essence of what skateboarding makes unique, meaning the style and soul, will all come back and hopefully stay forever. No trick should be called outdated again. We'll see great one foot ollies and nollies again in the future. Only one I would leave in the past is the street hand plant, but that is only my personal thing...

I have a trick called the "Don't comply". It when you get the shitts and fling your board into a body of water.

I think the FS No Comply 180 is probably my favorite, although it seems to be everybodies favorite. It's funny, I was always fascinated with No Comply and its variations; I started trying to learn the variations around 2007. I do think they will become unpopular soon, since everyone is doing them. I think things tend to die out when they are overused. Since I noticed people like to do the Frontside No Comply 180, I always thought that might be invented first. The consensus seems to be that it is easier than a normal No Comply. Great video by the way, keep up the good work.

No comply with get outta here or I'm calling the police has always been my favorite no comply

this is seriously the BEST channel on KZfaq! thank you for caring about us skate nerds

fakie no comply bigspin are awesome

O was a sick skate photographer who had a band called Olivelawn....San Diego. Neil Blender had a short stint in the beginning of this band. Fun fact another San Diego band Crankshaft which was a product from Foundation skateboards founder Todd Swank which he later featured a young Steve Bailey on the cover of a Crankshaft 7 inch singles.

one of the reasons I started skating at the tender age of 12 was because of this dude in my neighborhood we all called "no comply guy" circa 1995

yayyyy another video

Other than the footage with Neil and Lance in "Ban This" (found here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pJ2Dd7mGvbLNj4k.html), O was in two punk bands; Olivelawn and Fluf.

No-Comply frontside shove-it is my favourite flatground trick

Haha Randy Smith, rode for Alva, from Sacramento...

hey guys, can anyobody please tell me what's the name of the trick Ray Barbee pulls out at 5:45? (that fakie 180 with a footplant) i've seen it in a couple videos and want to learn it so bad but can't seem to find the right name..

Is there any heelflip varial lean footage?

Kevin Terperning is one of the modern skateboarders that popularized no-complys, again. I've yet see anyone other than Kevin, do no comply nose manual on a picnic table.

Check into Neil blender he was doing those no complies way back in the day

Before there were two kick tail skateboards, if I was riding the board backwards, I would one foot ollie 180 the board to get it in the right direction. To me, the 43 was kind of based on that and of course the boneless. I would imagine it would be invented by all the people mentioned with skaters just dicking around with their skateboards. The favorite one I ever did was a backside 43 no look to tail after having some beers and trying it over and over and then finally making it. The 43 is a classic trick.

No complies can mutate into so many variations.

Cool videos. I suggest an Indy air video since there's so much confusion. I really hate hearing frontside indy or even worse, backside indy.

You should take over the loveletters on the vans channel.

Back in the day the general idea was that Natas Kaupas invented the no comply but who can tell.

From someone who was skating back then and now. . . You need to get out more!

No Complies off a curb were my jam, back in summer 91 I was popping them across 8 foot grass dividers in parking lots on my Colby Carter with G&S trucks and those Schmitt wheels with the aluminum hubs. I found this page after wondering why I still use the phrase "gearing up for getting down" and knew it was from something skating related. I googled it and found the quote attributed to Neil Blender but still can't remember what skate video in which he said the phrase (O_o) anyone know?

yo dude first of sick video again 👌✌ but can you tell me who is doing that nocomply backside 360 butt steps off like a front side 360? that trick looks fun

5:46 What's that trick called?

RIP Otis "O" Bartholomew.

A lot of older skaters around here(Nova Scotia, Canada) ,still call'em step-hops. I'm old too, but I call'em no-comply's...I like no-comply better than step-hop. Either way, I love the trick and all it's variations when done going fast, and caught in the air. I'm not a fan of "tic-tac's" at any time, but when someone "tic-tac's" after a no-comply...Ewwww yuck! just my opinion though.

I'm giving it to Lucero dude. His look the best.

I always thought the no comply off a curb was best described as a fast plant ollie. I'm 50.

I believe I invented a trick and called it the Cuban spin. my friends call it the Cuban heel which is weird because it doesn't have a heel in it. its a switch anticasper flip late frontside bigspin. its so obscure but for me the trick has to be switch.

My fav is no compky 360 flip !

How smart is it to check the coke price late 70ies vs 82. The dedication hehe.

I know that the no compry was a Willy Santos thing in that old Birdhouse video. I don't know who invented the no-comply though....

rad rat veido is a conspiracy to make pressure flips cool again!

I met O a few years back, he’s not fat anymore

Haven’t read every single comment but does anyone ever remember the flat 360s being called a ‘ballerina’? I grew up in Raleigh and that’s what they were called in N. Carolina around 88 89..

Wuz doing no comply...so long ago. Yeah!

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my favorite is backside no comply 180 but the closest one I can do is probably switch no comply impossible sex change

No one understands... That's a great way to put it in a game of SKATE...I always gotta explain it all the way down to the foot position I use... It's Dirty and I love it 💯

do the history of the fs flip

My favorite thing about this video is this nerd with glasses and a dress shirt schooling us on the history of skateboarding.

No comply FS big spin heel flips.

Fs no comply 360 with out doing a little bit of a revert at the end

no i don't think no comply will die off, it is a useful trick to flip your board and can spice up a line instead of a pivot.... i like them... i dont like riding my tail as my nose so i no comply to switch ti sometimes or after a bail

Thats why I always confuse bonelesses with no complies lol

the intro skateboard pop noise sucks. never heard a trick sound like that. too scratchy pls fix

switch nocomply front 180s the best feeling trick in the world

Hensley ruled them next to Vallely.

Who invented the 360 flip aka tre flip???

Are there any Thrasher Skater of the Year picks that you disagree with?

A trick that you can do it anywhere.

If no comply originally meant no understand wouldn't it be no compute? Because, comply means to obey a command and compute means to calculate or figure something out. I wonder if it was no compute at first but they just started saying no comply at some point by accident and it just stuck. It can be funny how things change like that sometimes, but we'll never know for sure.

RIP O

Ray Barbee best at it

RoCK ooNN

its a good trick, using your hands in skating is not cool and kinda like cheating, bomb drops, boneless, that kind of stuff and like u said pressure flip for the most part dont pop or look cool, Jovante made pressure flips look dope but nobody else looked as good as his. One footers and Ollie Air Walks are sick, u use your hand but its mid air and looks awesome.

I could do switch impossible no complys. For some reason no complys are easier switch for me.

No comply Fs inward heelflip

the best no comply is the default one.

Write a book

Who gives a shit that something in skating is popular or not?

Who invented late flips??