Now, so check it out.
This week is the Honeydew List week.
Let's plant your foot, fuckers.
This is an ode to the foot plant.
Was it Lonnie here a moto or was it someone else?
Lonnie did them.
I'm trying to think who the first one I ever saw did them.
I started doing them.
It would have been 79.
That was a great trick.
But yeah, Lonnie did them real well.
I'm trying to think who else was doing those things at that time.
See, I might be getting it all wrong.
It might have been Grisham.
Yeah, so we're here with Lonnie here a moto.
Who I thought invented the foot plant, but I'm obviously totally wrong because we got
his trick tip here in skateboarder.
It's the August 79 issue.
Here's Lonnie's trick tip, the foot plant, upper keyhole marina, and he says right in
the first opening paragraph that the first person he saw do it was Grisham.
Where'd you see Grisham do it at?
You remember?
You were at some contest, I don't even remember, and I was like, whoa, my back side is, my
foot comes off all the time, I'm learning that trick.
They were the people that kind of stayed in the bowl, like Dwayne.
Somewhere between 81 and 83, Blender took Dwayne's foot plant, and Dwayne does the best
foot plant, so I'm going to do them like Dwayne.
It's called a fast plant.
Dwayne's still doing them.
This foot plant is timeless, right?
Neil Blender made foot plants acceptable, in my opinion, because he did fast plants,
and bean plants, and all his other plants.
When the board rocks on your foot, you know when it flaps up, rolls up onto the side of
your foot like that, and your tail goes higher, and then fucking slap it back on, and it makes
that little...
We got Eddie Algaro for the original foot plant fakie.
There is Groholsky's Indy plant, there's Gator's Lean plant, Neil did those too, there's Craig
Johnson's Texas plant, GSD did the frontside bonus on banks, I believe it was Caballero,
who took him to Burt, Phillips and all of his gang in Texas, Boosters.
What's up with the bonus?
Why the bonus?
Because when I was growing up skating, I could never ollie, so I could jump up to things
by bone-lessing.
I did bone-less the hand rails, because I couldn't ollie up it, so instead, I just bone-less
the 50-50 and stuff, that's how I jumped up on the picnic tables or just anything, because
I couldn't ollie.
When the sweeper came out, everybody fucking learned sweepers, right?
That was like the go-to amateur kid trick, we used to call him danglers at Skate City,
like, could you dangle it over there, right, like, and Dwayne always did Dwayne's style
of death, that's why he's fucking leader of all men, frontside bone-less, backside
bone-less, there's backside bonus, which is also Caballero.
What I can hear fine is just straight, yeah, mute backside bone-less.
There's the bastard plant, backside bonus to Fakie, that's the English guys, I think that's
Sean Goff, there's the bean plant, which is meal blender, oh, there's the frontside fast
plant, Rob Roscoe, probably the best Fakie thrusters I've ever seen, oh, there's Gator's
Gator, which is a frontside bonus 360, oh yeah, slob plant, there's all kinds of fucking
screwy variations.
Oh, the Joe-less one, I forgot about that, Joe fucking lobes, baby, right on, the Joe-less
one, which is a frontside bonus one, jump into the detail, yeah, well, everybody always
said since that skate tip came out, oh, Lana, you invented foot plants, and I said, whoa,
whoa, whoa, I do, yeah, Gresham Paul, he was the first one I seen do it, and then it's
just, I guess, more people along the line seen me doing, you know, more all over.
You walk into the skate shop, what do you do?
You take the board down, they hand it to you, you look at the board, you look at the graphics,
you look at the top, and you go, bam, backside bone-less one, and that's how you tested boards
back then, and then you kind of did one of these numbers, you should probably have a board
to do it with, I mean, talk about, like, it's a very subtle thing, right, but you know,
you turn the backside bone-less one, you're going, yeah, the board's going to be rad,
and then you, like, sweep it, you're sweeping on the carpet.
Right.
