Skate Dad » Favorite Skaters http://www.sk8dad.com Dads that skate Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:22:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Friday Favorite Skater – Matt Hensley http://www.sk8dad.com/friday-favorite-skater-matt-hensley/ http://www.sk8dad.com/friday-favorite-skater-matt-hensley/#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:55:49 +0000 Bill http://www.sk8dad.com/?p=31 [...]

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]]> Matt Hensley single handedly blew up the street skating scene. I remember when I first saw his part in H-Street "Shackle Me Not" video I knew street skating had changed forever. He was the first person I heard use the term flatground and then I watched him just ride down a sidewalk and shred everything in sight. I spent the next month trying to learn that stuff and turning my shins into shredded meat chunks.

Matt is still doing cool stuff, playing accordion for the great Irish band Flogging Molly.

Enjoy the bonus intro footage as well!

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]]> http://www.sk8dad.com/friday-favorite-skater-matt-hensley/feed/ 0 Fridays Favorite Skater – Mark Gonzales http://www.sk8dad.com/fridays-favorite-skater-mark-gonzales/ http://www.sk8dad.com/fridays-favorite-skater-mark-gonzales/#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:46:56 +0000 Bill http://www.sk8dad.com/?p=29 [...]

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]]> Every Friday I feature one of my favorite skaters. Today it is Mark Gonzales, one of the pioneers of street skating. Mark is the person that decided we could all slide down handrails on our skateboards as well as do darkslides, sliding on your grip tape instead of the bottom of your board. What a mad man. Watch this footage from 1991's Video Days and you will see just how far ahead of his time he was. You could drop this footage into a video today and it would be considered a great video, but this is from 18(!!!!!) years ago!! Just look at that board he is riding, it must be at least 9 inches wide. The other thing that a lot of people don't know about The Gonz is he ripped vert as well as you can see towards the end of this clip.

I was lucky enough to skate with Gonz once at the Vans skatepark in Milpitas a few years ago. Not only does he rip but he is a pretty cool dude. Enjoy the video.

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