Origins of the Backside Noseblunt Slide | w/ Matt Hensley
Skateboard history! Gotta know where you came from to know where you’re going. Especially now that the early-90’s is the hottest thing in skateboarding. Learn up on the origins of the backside noseblunt slide with the legend Matt Hensley.
ME: For a lot of people, myself included, the Sturt sequence of your back noseblunt was the first time seeing the trick. Not only that but it was done so proper. It was like an instructional manual. Can you break down going there that day? Did you go there specifically to shoot it?
Hensley: Thanks. Yeah. We went there to shoot that. That little curb lives in Carlsbad and I had been skating there for years. It’s funny that you mentioned Mark Gonzales, because I had seen Mark Gonzales do frontside ones and he probably did backside ones too. But I remember learning the frontside ones with Mark in mind and then thinking, “I’m going to try and do it backside.” But I wanted to really push it.
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