Matt Hensley in Shackle Me Not

[WIHB2011]

wow unglaublisch

[xxn0thing]

Wow, took me back to my youth. Great video.

[thedict8or]

One thing no one seems to have mentioned is the sidewalk line. When I saw that as a kid, it changed everything. super influential.

[ome32]

no cheese or lettuce, thank you very much

[TheTrickyTube]

the filmers seems to were pretty cool dudes that time :)

[jaytv777]

"no cheese or lettuce or anything thank you very much"..:)

Legend.

[mykegger08]

Man i can't believe this guy plays the accordion for Flogging Molly

[N1CKYb0n3z]

Those early grabs at 1:45 are amazing.

[BailCas]

where is he skating there?

[skateingrockshgdsalf]

regular! and then there was andrew reynolds...

word

[MelchizedekRatio]

gay. where the fuck the bangers man? whole video i'm waiting for something to happen like maybe this shit's just an intro to some actually good shit. just a gay poser filming his dog and doing grab tricks cause he can't tre flip the right way. not impressed. get a normal shaped skateboard, fag.

[DropkickFish]

@MelchizedekRatio Dude, are you seriously that fucking retarded? I honestly don't know where to start... Anyone else wanna take this one?

[thedict8or]

@MelchizedekRatio the idea of the banger in a video part did't really exist until frankie hill did the first big gap at the end of his part in propaganda. It's still a big gap by today's standards. you will probably think it's gay, but when it happened, no one had ever seen anythng like it.

[MJAdreams]

Classic! still no skater skaters yet with the same killer approach!!!!!

[SSDecontrol94]

are those the converse weapons?

[lynus111]

I know people talk about Hokus Pokus and I love that too, but for me Shakle me not was the more inspirational video, it blew my tiny naive adolescent mind!

[Roderz72]

Probably the most influential individual skate part ever..... The backside 360 no comply and the melon grab on the flat..... Great to watch

[louiebaur]

@Roderz72 I would have to agree with you there for sure!

[ghandee]

@Roderz72

What about Gonz or Mullen???

These were times were skateboarding was growing. Most of them influenced people like me or you.

I remember watch video like these and go out skate like mental, when I was still beginner.

Good times man! Good times!!

[MoratJG]

@Roderz72

Not to mention wearing low-tops shoes waaaay before anyone else. Epic. Great memories.

[jaytv777]

@MoratJG yeah..cut downs I seem to remember ..and late on doc marten low tops, the only other skater I ever saw rock the docs was Bill Danforth..old skoool!

[DanielGrozier]

@Roderz72 yabble dabble,you dick,what about lance in future or tommy in search?nats in wheels?not to mention gonz in pyscho skate,get a grip pleb

[rebusd]

melons were so badass when they first came out

[Nominay]

@elvisidaltendencies hating on the Bones Brigade makes no sense .. you want to diss the company, fine, George Powell sucked and gave it all a cornball image with its megacorporateness ... but that doesn't take away from the skaters themselves. Ray Barbee, Mike Vallely, Frankie Hill and others were just as good as Matt and vice versa .. for chrissakes, Guy Mariano was on Powell then.

[barneygrumble]

look at those shoes. greatness

[lucasliz73]

Listen, can we establish what the music is (the second song) in Hensely's part? It's the guitar acid trip, who the hell played that? Where the heck can I get that trippy music without the no-comply clicks?

I got the VHS, I need the title to the song...

thanks, keep flippin', fellow oldscholars.

[lynus111]

@lucasliz73 Look up user Ruga666 he has pretty much the entire soundtrack with artists and titles to The Hstreet vids and some other old school stuff, I would imagine he has it.

[OriginalPinkbird]

I wanted those black visions with the multicolored soles...

[TheSethm1]

Thanks for the post those were the days! I skated with him once at Web Park in Rancho Bernardo and it was highlight of my life haha! Hensley was the man and was super cool too!

[PettyTyranny]

Shackle Me Not, and Matt's part in particular, changed street skating forever. Back then, nobody could touch what the H-Street guys were doing. We used to call the move at 0:21 "ballerinas". I don't know if that's right or not to this day, but it caught on in N.C.

[de4dr4bbit]

@PettyTyranny they ARE ballerinas bro haha.i showed them to some kid and he called them some dumbass name and i tried telling him they were called ballerinas and he named some dumbass new skater who does them all the time so i told him to check out hensleys part in shackle me not and he says 'whos that?' haha.i just shook my head and skated away.ballerinas are still one of my favorite tricks to this day.

[funkygungadin]

@PettyTyranny ballerinas aka 360 backside no complys remember continually hitting my nuts trying to learn these lol. ray barbie used to do these bang on think it was on public domain . shackle me not and p.d. were the standard we all tried to emulate at the time. happy days!!!

[3Deditor]

Before he turned pro, I've skated with Matt at these banks in San Marcos, California in front of what used to be an actual bank teller port along mission road. Not sure if those banks even exist anymore, but it was a favorite spot for a lot of skaters to skate at. I've also skated at a lot of those places he skated at in this video in Vista, and Escondido, California. Lots of cool, fun spots in those cities.

[01mogwai]

@elvisidaltendencies Think ur missin the point fella,skating at that time was was about havin fun.Always was and always will.Skateboarding now is fuckin insane,the amounts of money/sponsors there is unreal..H-Street where and always will be a leader in innovation as will Powell.

[DanielGrozier]

@01mogwai h-street and powell were both losers as they lost out to new deal and blind respectively,couldn't grasp that street was the future

[01mogwai]

@DanielGrozier Yeah maybe,but who would of thought that Rodney Mullen in the early days would be the massive influence and innovator that he is today,the man's a fuckin legend!!

[penguinphil3]

woah man woah



[ygh1973]

I'm still trying to master 360 no complies

[jojodangerfield]

master of all things shove-it-y

[boeseefus311]

One of the Pioneers of Street Skating. Definitely ahead of his time.

Oh what memory's :-)

[namelessguy93]

2:52 is probably my favorite skateboard trick captured on film ever!

[colchesterton]

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[jaystoneification]

hellls yes da man this is art fgs

[burtterfly1]

i´m a girl and its really really really coool

[StephenPettit]

that dude is straight up beast!

[Machihekamake]

used to skate hard, i mean i gave my soul into the art form, feeling the asphalt, concretes, woods, ;...riding architects dreams in downtown LA, the wedge, echo bowl, lance's house, ...i cant help to agree about the outcast, we tore shit up! hanging out, friendships and making memorable actions. WHere are my skate buddies now??? Fuckn Hammel School Skaters! Roach, Lil Rw, Juny, ?????

[TVindustries5000]

i like h-street, matt hensley=beast. i love early World industries, Rubbish Heap is my fav vid

[soulmachineNo1]

I miss those days...  Matt Hensley = Legend

[moosepupp92]

one person missed the like button.

[tju568]

that was cool, i enjoyed watching that!

[775k]

i agree everyone wants to look like a skater.. back in the day skaters were outcasts...

[robbiecass]

@775k We definitely were outcasts. It's so different now. I remember when I got my first good deck in 1984 -- in a high school of over 1000, I think there were six or seven of us skating.

[TheEvildigits]

This clip was probably the most influential thing in all of my skating years. ABSOFUCKINLUTELY AHEAD OF IT'S TIME.

[lynus111]

@TheEvildigits This, the rubber boys in Publid Domain, and in 3rd place Mike Vallely in speed freaks.

[de4dr4bbit]

@lynus111 tom knoxs part in speed freaks was pretty sick though

[de4dr4bbit]

@lynus111 tom knoxs part in speed freaks was pretty sick though

[AncientRage2]

Classic

[NightshadowWindsong]

take it back to the old school. awesome.

[HappyMachineInc]

Ah, the good old days... skate any time not in school. Used to watch this video all the time. Bust out the no complys.

[RottenAnatomy]

I miss these days. Just skating around, not caring about anything, just having fun. These kids today don't get it. Everything's all about fashion now, and being "in vogue". Fuck that.

[bartv]

@RottenAnatomy

fuck you, skateboarding is still that today.

[RottenAnatomy]

Maybe to a select few of us, but all these kids you see in magazines and shit, everyone's so "fashion conscious", it's sickening.

[schwiggys]

you're just jaded and old.

skateboarding has always had attitude-ridden kids. ignore them.

[NightshadowWindsong]

agreed, I like old school because you have all the new school kids with there "tre flips" and "lazer flips", old school made me more confident 'cus it's like, "oh yeah? lets so you do THIS." haha.

[DanMartin47]

I understand your point but you can't just steriotype us all like that Im 17.

Don't give a fuck about fashion

Just skate for the Passion

[DerAngriff]

Matt doing the ollie melon... when I saw that I had to learn it. Matt's part made me so hyped. After school on Friday, skate till late at night. Then go to bed, almost not being able to sleep because I'd be going skating on the weekend. Man. Life was awesome. Hah. I remember telling my mates about Hocus the day after I received the vid - running off the trick list and them in disbelief, till they saw it.

[lasek26]

These were the days, used to watch this all the time before i went skating!

[stuartportlock]

top geezers back in the day kikkin todays tricks.

[troopznz]

man i had dis on vhs lol

[jmelewis]

Anyone know the 2nd song? starts at around 1:48

Thanks

[RapistInTheChoir]

great song by a great band in this clip. 

Patife Band, check 'em out.

[nocomplyimpossible]

Is the first song by them?, if so do you know the song name?

[RapistInTheChoir]

yeah, right as the skateboarding starts @ :14.

just google the band name: Patife Band with blogspot after it. you'll find it for download.

[nocomplyimpossible]

Thanks boss, got it! Patife Band-teu bem.

[RapistInTheChoir]

your new favorite band.

i hear they're working on a new record, too. or trying to, at least.

[killermonkeypeople1]

1:20 lol

[suatizcream]

XD =D XD over and over again XD

[suatizcream]

1:19

[kiriama212]

i found this vhs and danny ways first pro deck i had at my mums house...got the deck hanging in the shed games room those were gud skating daes...

[lowend]

I got to meet Matt Hensley a long time ago-he was one of the coolest guys-along with Jessie Martinez, who skated for SMA. This video was classic!

[Kobajashiii]

it seems it had the same effect all over. revolution. the real skateboarding revolution. i could feel it back in the days...

so inspiring.

[ohjubba]

My freinds and I use to watch the bones brigade videos and think the street portions were not that impressive. Then H-street came out and Matt Hensley and Ron Allen blew us away! We could not watch it enough. I can not sress to younger generations how much skating progressed just because of this video. I have shown my son Matt's part and then the pro street competion from the 1986 Tempe Arizona contest and it looks like it was recorded 10 years earlier not 2.

[hellohistory]

@ohjubba yep

[Ler627]

plain up meat only!!!!

[dekkard]

I remember when this came out in 1988 (well here in Austria actually in 1989 I guess). We went totally crazy and could not believe the new Tricks, and all those no Comply Variations. I learned so many Complys and varial Flips after watching this - this Video: Legend!

[nocomplyimpossible]

vintage no comply at 2:05

[BulletProoftruth]

man!!!this vid was my bible, hensley was my god!!

i went out & bought a h-street tony mag "hell concave"after watchin this 20 yrs ago.

bless u 4 posting.

i wanna go skatin now.

[gazzagee666]

After watching this video, i went out and bought a H-street Matt Hensley Ltd edition king size, and i'm watching it now as i'm just about two buy a blacklabel one, nearly two decades later.... hope i can still skate!!!! top video wheres the other half tho??

[spacemanfromthepast]

I think it's really funny that he plays accordion for Flogging Molly now. One of my favorite skate videos of all time!

[nbailar1]

Love those backside 360 no-comply's.

[kerdener]

amen, great video. thanks for posting. I still remember seeing this when it came out, just about everything Matt Hensley did was so damn fluid and effortless.

[PLUXUS50]

this was the most inspiring shit ever. still golden. absolutely so.