Robert Brink - Writer

Henry Sanchez on manuals

March 26, 2007 | Skip To The Comments (2)

Found this lovely image on emb4ever.com

So here's the last of my unpublished manual interviews. Hope you enjoyed them. This final one is with Henry Sanchez.

Henry, my name's Rob. I'm calling from Strength magazine.

Oh, what's up man?

So we're doing an article on manual tricks and I wanted to know if you wanted to answer a few questions so we can include you in it.

Yeah, yeah.

Alright, well what would you say is or was your favorite place to do manuals at?

Fort Mason and Pier 7.

Who or what made you first want to try manual tricks?

Jovante Turner.

What would you say is the first hard manual trick that you learned?

Kickflip nosemanuals.

Which manual trick that you did are you most proud of?

Um...switch tre switch nose manny.

And which trick took you the longest to learn?

Probably all of 'em. I did a frontside flip to fakie manual in a World video back in the day. That was pretty hard.

Are there any manual tricks you're working on but haven't landed yet?

Yeah, I've been trying to do a switch frontside heel to nosemanual up the Pier.

Damn that's sick.

I did it man, but I landed all weird. It was sketchy. I have to do it again.

Who would you say is the king of the manual trick?

Daewon by far.

What's the most memorable manual trick ever done?

Maybe, like, all of Brian Lotti's stuff in Now 'n Later and all of Daewon's stuff (laughing).

What do you think is so appealing about manual tricks as opposed to other types of skating?

It's like a two-stepper. There's not just one step. You gotta like, do your little flip trick or whatever and then balance...and you gotta do it clean. And you don't get hurt with manuals. That's the other good thing.