BS with TG : Matt Hensley Part 1

[@1975hotpepper]

I used to skate with Hensley, all the time, growing up in Vista. Good times. One of the coolest guys you'll ever meet. Helluva skateboarder and human being. Thanks for your awesome videos, TG. Can't get enough.

[@jdmresearch]

Anything that can be said about the influence that Hensley had on today's skateboarding could be an understatement. Of course, Mullen and the Gonz, but they already got a lot of credit. Natas, yes, huge influence deal but at least people recognize the Natas spin. But this guy was huge, huge, and nobody seems to remember him.

[@archive303]

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

[@Mateo-et3wl]

Gone but not forgotten! I appear as Matt Hensley in my senior yearbook (1995). He was a biiiig deal to us

[@gentlejones]

TG, you are killing it with the interviews. Real street history.

[@Northsouthdnmguy]

Great seeing/listening to all these guys again. From Natas to Dressen to Hensley i'm always amazed how humble these guys are in their interviews.

[@kryptichands968]

My favorite dude to watch skate growing up, i was only 14 when I heard he quit. Was so bummed.

[@tomf4087]

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.

[@ERICF66]

That was great! Can't wait for part 2! Those H-Street videos.....man we watched them daily. we all tried to copy Matt's personal style too. Camo cargos, chain wallet, etc.. lol Still the man!

[@prestonwaters3094]

thanks for this.. back to back with some of my favorites.. first natas now Hensley! wow thanks again

[@marz444]

Matt Hensley.... I'm 40years old now but when I saw who on the show I teleported back to my youth watching "not the new h street video "and going out to skate schools ! The BEST.

[@BSwithTG]

Comments, suggestions, or just tell us a joke... whatever it is we like to hear from ya!

[@unlikeportraits4099]

Great choice of guests.

[@ErgoCogita]

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.

[@MegaAppl3]

Great interview

[@tilioforeign]

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

[@jlhannajr]

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

[@mouija1450]

This guy was so ahead of his time. I was somewhere between 10-12 when "this is not the new h-street video" came out and Matt Hensley was instantly my favorite skater. I had a VHS copy from a friend and I must have watched it every single day that summer before going out to skate. I watched it so much that I knew exactly the time on the tape that Matt's part started and eventually the tape broke. I scotch taped the broken bits back together, but his part now started with the lyrics "kinnarrow" and the snare roll intro. To this day when I hear that song, the intro seems foreign. The song basically goes right into "all I know is that I don't know" and Matt grabbing his board. Great times. Also, Phat Klown shorts are impossible to find.

[@CT-nb5lm]

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.

[@jamesradski9082]

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.

[@graxjpg]

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

[@lenk1975]

been waiting for this episode for ages TG. tune in to watch it and Hensley is wearing the exact same t shirt as me right now. keep the bs coming. love it

[@scottbowen6715]

So RAD!!!!!!! Thanks TG! You're show is sick! It's gnarly just hearing you and other sk8 legends kick it!

[@toynazi]

Hensley will always be my number one!

[@drun]

Yes!!!!! Remember all the MH clones? I was kinda one. I shaved my head, wore chukas and had a chain wallet!

[@lumptaviousshadows453]

so stoked tg. my fave 2 skaters in one show. woooooooo

[@abinorme]

thank you thank you thank you! I still dress like Hensley in Hokus Pokus :D

[@atharris8]

Green cargo shorts with the biker chain..forever.

[@tomf4087]

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

[@CT-nb5lm]

Hensley was so inspirational to every skater in every Suburbia back then. I always looked at Hensley as Skatings 1st uniform that wasn't dorky like Steve Cab & Hosoi with Feathers flailing & half shirts. This era of the late 80's and maybe 1990-1992 was my fav for sure. but everyone likes it when they we're coming up.

[@bennyshambles]

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.

[@markpaine771]

Two legends spitting shit about life, skateboarding and music.. So goood!

[@brendangeraghty8865]

Keep 'em coming,man! How about a Shawn Mandoli episode? Love to see Henry Sanchez talk about his pre-Blind Real days,too.

[@bennyshambles]

I remember the Plan B/World/101/bLind demos where Hensley was the TM. I saw them in Golden and Colorado Springs, CO. Must’ve been summer 1995. We were so stoked when we heard Hensley was gonna be there.

[@TimHesse]

Awesome...I'm just finding these...Dressen, Natas, Hensley, now I have to watch the rest! I'd really like to see Howell!

[@tomf4087]

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

[@hiddengems7336]

Grosso would be sick, great episode btw

[@jameycollins725]

i had a dream that i went back in time to 1985 for a whole month. i wish that was real and not a dream. i am looking forward to part 2. i would love to see eric koston, paul rodriguez, rob dyrdek, ishod wair, shane o'neill, or christian hosoi on your show. wait, how about all of them-lol.

[@thepupils209]

Cab over the table was light years ahead of the time. (along w/ so much more) Matt is one of those people that anything he touches he is a master of. Imagine the shit he can do with a toothbrush or can opener!

[@danielsaredi]

Thanks for this Tommy!! :)

[@crazycatman5928]

His stained glass window deck was the best deck I ever had. Lasted me a while and that’s the deck where my skating progressed so fast.

[@BrianWingard]

These are awesome! Great channel guys

[@infinidominion]

I love the Questionable video so much

[@artnobel1735]

Great work TG! ! !

[@elmercyperro]

what a great interview

[@veggieSxDBD]

Awsome awsome man , yaaaah matt

[@LupinTheThird31]

WOW!!! thanks for this!

[@TheWhiteboy40]

Ahhh the man for soo many of us. R.White from Berdoo Team street style. If you know then you know.

[@erichanhauser3190]

Excellent.

[@julianmilnes9594]

Tommy, ask them about the golden age and what it meant, what was it like being in the middle of evolution, how did you progress, what was your inspiration, what did it feel like to be at the forefront, who inspired you, what motivated you to be an innovator,,,?

[@groundcontrol-x8701]

I remember meeting Matt Hensley in M_nster,Germany-in 1996,i think it was,he was sitting there With this instrument(i'm not sure what they are called..),which you push and pull from the middle,with piano cords on the side......I cant remember what their called...)... X .

[@suburbia8831]

Yea Matt!

[@generalpolaris1778]

Awesome

[@shanreddy]

amazing

[@gatoreneatyahoo]

Awesome! 💪🏽👍🏽

[@highonangeldust]

Part 2????????? When????? Plz!

[@schwiggys]

never heard it called a squeeze box, nice

[@owenquercia]

Hensley footage has held up pretty well

[@chadwilliams2681]

Tommy and Matt!!!!!

[@kwote]

Legend!

[@qwetyuttyhhhhh]

Erick Winkowski as a guest please?

[@unlikeportraits4099]

Neil Blender, Tom Penny or Quim Cardona please. Or Frank Gerwer again.

[@ErgoCogita]

BANKSHOT!

[@japannational-mb2563]

bosss

[@MorenoChileOficial]

[@frogcrambo68]

the game changer

[@TemeculaDoug]

TG did you get to skate with MH much?

[@groundcontrol-x8701]

Oh Yeah-Shackle MeNot:"Here's Matt...Who?..Matt,Matt Hensley..)"...On the start of his first video part-did a lot of "step-hop",and"No comply" tricks...)...Good Part...)... X

[@julianmilnes9594]

I love Tommy, I love Matt, but please, there's a thousands questions that need to be asked from Matt......

[@brewharriah]

Cardiel pleeeeze

[@stevenbaker436]

Complicated skateboarding

[@glendale9468]

Jason lee he was actor and skater

[@gatoreneatyahoo]

Neil Blender Please

[@groundcontrol-x8701]

a"Squeeze-box"...)...?

[@hosoiarchives4858]

Id like it if you guys talked a little more skating

[@bubbadagger]

you homies are rad man , one love