As I said before, I'm an idiot, and I know nothing about the modern-day backsmith.
You know something, though. I feel like you're playing it down.
So we're going to bring Alex in, try to find out more about the Moni grind, the back-side Smith grind.
I sent a love letter out to the back-side Smith grind, which is actually the Moni grind, because Moni Nolder made it up.
And he was like, Moni grind, it's a Moni grind.
And everybody was like, no, it's a back-side Smith grind.
So you could imagine he's probably pissed off wherever he's at that everybody took his trick.
Yeah.
What do you like about the back-smith grind?
I don't know, it's easy.
It's easy? It took me 20 years to learn that fucking thing.
One of the things, though, I just knew that. I liked it.
There was one of those tricks you'd look and make, oh, I want to learn that trick.
Who did?
Looks cool.
You've got a hell of a back-smith grind.
So what influenced you to go, oh, that's cool. I want to learn that.
And I want to do it like this.
B.A., probably, for sure.
Out of anyone?
Him and Mike Carroll.
Dylan taught me how to do it in, like, transitions.
Don't read her.
I don't like it when it's, like, over. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Yeah, I totally know what you're talking about.
I hate that. Do you guys like that?
It's a weird motion you got to, like, get used to, right?
Like, slide up and do it?
Kind of like, yeah, like, lay it down and let it go.
And then, like, come back in. It's weird.
No? Oh, yeah.
Hartzell's good. I seen a recent photo of Hartzell doing a back-smith.
It's way better than that.
What about his shorts?
His shorts suck.
Let's see.
It's Jimmy Z fucking bullshit.
Bullshit. I want to bring Jimmy Z's back.
It's a complete mind fuck to learn the thing.
But once you learn it, it's one of those things that you realize, like, oh, it's super easy.
But then if you think that you've got it on lock, you really don't.
Because it'll fucking serve you up.
But once you learn it, it almost is, like, slappy, right, almost.
I'd rather do that trick than a backside lip slide, too.
Sometimes it's weird.
With rails, it sometimes just locks in and just, it's like a track, almost.
That's what wheels try to do, just shoot you out.
Super easy.
When you do them, and it feels like you can see your graphic.
Yeah, I got it. That was a good one.
I don't know.
I like them when they're just...
Now I'm getting excited about this.
Backsmiths are kind of like hand plants.
No, they're not.
No, they are totally like...
They're absolutely not.
Look, everybody thinks that they can fucking do hand plants,
and hand plants are all about body positioning.
They're all about the way you hold your arms,
they're all the way about where your legs are at
and how your toes are pointed,
and if your leg's straight or if it's cr...
