Hensley and Allen at Skateworld

This was an H-Street demo from the late 80's featuring Ron Allen and Matt Hensley. It was put on by Bikes Unlimited. The venue was New London Skateworld, just outside of Lynchburg, Va. Rad demo! I remember a few of us going out later with Matt Hensley. We went to a Pizza Hut and they wouldn't serve us for some reason. We then proceeded to have a flatland session in their parking lot. Having a low key flatland sesh with Hensley was a childhood dream. Dude was super chill. Good times!

[@mateosmithy5668]

Matt’s 360 pop shuv tail grab was nasty… especially for its time!

[@Backlashed]

1:32

[@marvinshenk]

My Childhood!!!

[@dominickratliff6171]

Skated with Ron alot back in these days, knew alot of the H- Street team, still talk to Tony Mag and the guys a few times a month

[@itswaaaay2ez]

Man, I remember this. I was there. The launch 'Hicktown' was pretty perfect. We kept all of this at the church off Campbell Ave. Remember Dave? Older guy with the glasses, opened the church for us to skate, lived right up the street? Chad, Craig Kossel, John Sheffey, . . . Good times

[@bgab2211]

Great historical value in these videos. They belong in the video collection in the Smithsonian. Thank you for sharing.

[@urwholefamilydied]

Cool you got to hang with him! I always wished they had done a demo in Detroit because I had a cousin who was ridiculously good at the time... basically anything those guys were doing he would just learn it, within a couple days. And he was the guy who started riding H-Street boards when me and my dumb friends had no idea and would only ride Powell because that's all we knew. I figured if the H-Street team ever rolled through town they would pick up my cousin as an Am or even Pro rider. He was really good. Then when he turned 16 and got a car... he just stopped skating. It was always so strange to me he never pursued it. If he had put effort into it lots of teams would have picked him up. Anyway, that's my uninteresting story about my cousin... LOL

[@jasondashney]

My dad thought when I was 16 I'd quit skating because I'd have a car and be able to go more places. Yeah, to more skate spots, dummy. I'm in my 40's now and I never stopped (outside of injuries). Matter of fact if it wasn't raining right now I'd be trying to film a trick.

[@drun]

two things, you were lucky to be in an area that had so many demos, and secondly, you were smart enough and lucky to have a camera to video tape them! So rad!

[@badeboom]

Nice, finding these rare video gems!

[@screenfixer1936]

Amazing quality for late 80's

[@mortlow6688]

my first board 1990 was a Ron Allen...

[@pierrewikberg]

Amazing clip. I have a similar demo from Sweden in 1990. Haven't digitized yet.

[@radikarlsson]

Snälla Pierre, gör det!

[@spikebella255]

Some of the best times of life were skating in the late 80s. In 89 I got sponsored from boardwalk boards in VA. Got 2 free decks a month and some other stuff..but I thought I was big shit back then..then I ruined everything over a girl i stoped skating everyday .and that was it for skateboarding... That was the mistake I have ever made...so if anyone's is reading this keep doing what you love don't quit over some chick

[@bazzeldrlong3568]

thanx for sharing this. amazing!

[@adelag5924]

I never seen this footage..!! and i was stoked with those two riders..!! , and i agree with the coment footage of Hensley its like gold and more valuable if you add a rider like Ron Allen

[@planb0123]

I wanted to see Hensley get that feeble grind down the PVC handrail.

[@meiphukingdiqq]

Same here! I was waiting for that make.

[@americafirst8218]

H street was the sheeeet for awhile

[@minirampbonden7927]

Thx for this! Now im hyped for a sesh😃😃😃

[@tomobrien5345]

This was my time, except in a small place outside Liverpool UK. Shackle Me Not changed all of us.

[@toynazi]

This is GREAT! I lived in Huntington West Virginia around this time. I'm thinking 89-90 Hensley, Ron allen Sean Sheffey and a few others came through. I would say it was the same tour. Loving these vids man!

[@sk8brdninja746]

Hensley just wants to skate!

[@slothmoss]

This is so sick Clark.

[@carvinblack]

I remember Godfather's Pizza told us they didnt want us coming in anymore. We would come in to take a break from the heat. We played video games, bought cheese bread and all you can drink soda. I guess he didnt like the fact that we actually took advantage off all you can drink( but we only had like 2 or 3 a piece). But mainly skater hate. Haha.

[@tomobrien5345]

I've tried to explain to my son how much skaters were outsiders then. I was skating every day late 80's-early 90's & people did not want to know.

[@PMSTACKER3000]

1990. there is a kid with a J. Lee Cat In The Hat deck

[@johnp1787]

Real skating!👍

[@lemurdream]

Hensley is the fucking man!

[@nobodysreview6137]

These guys were hella stylish, skating went into a stupid era after this though.

[@destroyeric89]

love all your demo footage, just checked to see if you had anything new up and boom, hstreet demo!!! hensley footage is always gold. thanks for sharing, got any other demos that havent been posted?

[@clytor]

A bunch. I'll get them all up eventually.

[@yellowmagicdog3350]

did you catch that melon grab Hensley did at the end? It was like 3 ft high and super boned out. The best

[@ProjectPhenix]

hell yeah, that was awesome, I had to take a creep grab lol

[@inzanetripmetaljohnny4648]

COLDEST STYLES ABOUND #timeless

[@jamesradskijr.9745]

Anyone know what Ron Allen is doing these days?

[@dominickratliff6171]

Yup he still skates and he's doing hip hop under the name MC Intelligence

[@cyclops1092]

who was that band playing on the loudspeaker??

[@int0the3p1t32]

I’m sayin. That shit is raw af.

[@everycloud7144]

McRad

[@eek412]

Thanks everyone for coming, now leave

[@usslongbeachcg9]

what is the name of the trick Matt does at 1:32? its like a pop shuvit tail grab but he vairals it the rest of the rest of the way around to make it a full 360° spin. ive heard it called a tailwhip but he grabs kinda crail so could it be a crailwhip?

[@nobodysreview6137]

I dont know what you would call it but he was doing 360 kickflip tailgrabs back then too.

[@Surfmus]

360 Varial Tail grab.

[@heavenearth3703]

Yeah Ollie 360 varial tail grab.

[@badeboom]

08:29 catched or grabbed?

[@orbonds3603]

One footed frontside 180...weird trick

[@kaishaw7549]

First song name?

[@meiphukingdiqq]

"McShred" by McRad.

[@meiphukingdiqq]

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[@carvinblack]

Also check out some Underdog. I like McShred by McShred on Skate Rock Vol. 4.

[@modvs1]

Brick tricks.

[@andreabordoni2665]

Skateboarding before the popsicle era was so much better

[@jerrykhoff9023]

That is an ignorant statement. All eras of skateboarding are awesome.

[@andreabordoni2665]

@@jerrykhoff9023 🧟‍♂️

[@jerrykhoff9023]

@@andreabordoni2665 why don't you say something above a 2nd grade level of education? You made a bold statement, now pull out your speak n spell and back it up.

[@andreabordoni2665]

@@jerrykhoff9023 I started skateboarding in the 80s when everything was different. I'm a nostalgic of that era, I miss that vibe when the skateboard scene was supported by skaters and not by energy drinks. If you don't like my statement, read something else. P. S. I'm not a native english speaker

[@jerrykhoff9023]

@@andreabordoni2665 No worries, I started in the early 90's when skating was literally dead. Plan B Questionable was my favorite video(might still be)...My boards were mostly Popsicle sticks, but prior to that I had a few old ass boards that were shaped that we used for butt boarding....not really skating as we know it, just fun little kid stuff. The energy drink thing is controversial....personally I only drink water or beer, but those energy drink companies do pay to keep some of our favorite skaters going and not have to find a second job/retire

[@pierrewikberg]

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