Five Favorite Parts With Will Marshall

📝 Interview by Adam Abada

When we were chatting with Will for his interview that ran back in September, we stayed on for a bonus Five Favorite Parts epilogue to keep on ice. Given Will’s closer in the latest Augustin Giovannoni-helmed Dime video, this week felt as good of a time to drop it as any ;)

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Nathan Evans – Green Apple: Supper’s Ready (2007)

[Part begins @ the 1:30 mark]

All the Green Apple videos are sick. Ryan McQuigan — Canadian legend — filmed and edited them. He’s in Winnipeg. I never got to meet him, and the Canadian skate scene is pretty small, so that’s a rare miss. Regardless, I’m a huge fan.

But that Nate Evans part — it’s actually my number one part. I love how it starts. Long-lens lines are underrated! The pan from the sky, all the clouds coming to him and hopping the train tracks. Then the next trick is him hopping out of a box truck in a tied-up green hoodie.

He dressed like people were dressing in 2017 and this was 2007 — way ahead of his time. He has the illest flick, too. He didn’t really have that much footage overall, but this had two songs. He tries to skate over this fat-ass grate, clips, eats shit, and it’s a new song. It was a very impactful part for me.

Ben Blundell — Squad Massage by Cory McNeil (2015)

Ben is the freshest without trying to be the freshest. He probably doesn’t even want to hear it, but I truly think that he looks so fucking badass that he was a bit ahead of his time, in a sense. It’s all about presentation and how you show your skating. I think Ben was on it just a bit before it was glorified in that way.

It feels like you know him after watching it. I like how he slams on the back 50 on the flatbar after doing the line. After he lands the 50 on the flatbar, he busts the most A-list heelflip on flat. He ollies between a train. It gets me hyped. It’s not about what you’re doing, kids. It’s about how you fucking rip it.

Zach Panebianco – Sabotage 5 by Brian Panebianco (2019)

It really comes down to a vibe for me. All the best songs in my head are short, just like Zach’s part — two minutes. I can’t say this for certain, but I get the vibe from that part that it was filmed within four to six months — like he wasn’t trying to film a part.

Brian Panebianco is his cousin who filmed and edited the part. They’re probably really comfortable together. I can’t put words in his mouth, but I really get the vibe that he wasn’t filming to have the first part in this video. He just had badass footage and it worked out — like how he hops the fence at Love and ollies the gap. It’s kind of going back to the long-lens line of Nate Evans. One clip could really make the video, and the one of him hopping the fence really seals it for me. ni.

Brian makes some of my favorite videos of all time, Zach rips, and they just represent that scene so fucking well.

Sammy Baca — Baker 4 (2019)

That’s probably the farthest one from how I skate. It’s all about attitude — this one’s for the little homies.

By far my favorite clip is the line where he tries to nollie flip on flat and it doesn’t snap at all. He jumps up and still does it. It’s pure grit and hard work. I’m pretty sure Reynolds speaks on how he offers Sammy a flight to go back for the noseslide big spin, but he just keeps taking the MegaBus or the Greyhound. He didn’t need that trick, but he needed that trick. That’s skating.

But I feel like he should’ve had last part.

Ty Beall – Chrome Zone by Sam Zentner (2023)

He clearly had a theme for that part. So many of the spots he skates are narrow and between brick buildings in Queens or deep Brooklyn, and he looks so good doing it. In his part, he kickflipped some set of stairs, jumped right into the garbage bags — definitely didn’t check for broken glass, needles or anything.

Yo, here, let me show this one last clip too. This is so fried — if I explained it to you without showing, it wouldn’t make much sense. Speaking of narrow spots, this should have been filmed long-lens — there was no space — but he’s like, “No, let’s throw the fisheye on.”

At one point if you pause it at the right point, all you see in the frame is his crotch. They didn’t move the garbage cans or anything.

Previously: Grant Yansura, Ryan Lay, Nikolai Piombo, Hayley Wilson, Frank Gerwer, Gus Gordon, Max Palmer, Etienne Gagne, Jacopo Carozzi, Nicole Hause, Matt Militano, Evan Wasser, Ryuhei Kitazumi, Sarah Meurle, Vitória Mendonça, Andrew Wilson, Ben Kadow, Chandler Burton, Pedro Delfino, Johnny Wilson, Nick Michel, Wes Kremer, Jordan Trahan, Ariana Spencer, Elijah Odom, Greg Hunt, Zered Bassett, Neil Herrick, Trung Nguyen, Nick Boserio, Elissa Steamer, Casper Brooker, John Gardner, Bobshirt, Brandon Turner, Shari White, Nick Jensen, Tony Hawk, Naquan Rollings, Jack O’Grady, Josh Wilson, Maité Steenhoudt, Jahmir Brown, Una Farrar, Chris Jones, Mason Silva, Beatrice Domond, Mark Suciu, Justin Henry, Breana Geering, Sage Elsesser, Bobby Worrest, Nik Stain, Anthony Van Engelen, Dom Henry, Bing Liu, Andrew Reynolds, Cyrus Bennett, Jacob Harris, Jamal Smith, Paul Rodriguez, Gilbert Crockett, Ben Chadourne, Tom Knox, Louie Lopez, The Chrome Ball Incident, The Bunt, Lacey Baker, Andrew Allen, GX1000, Brian Anderson, Gino Iannucci, Josh Kalis, Sean Pablo, Wade Desarmo, Chris Milic, Chad Muska, Hjalte Halberg, Danny Brady, Bill Strobeck, Aaron Herrington, Jerry Hsu, Brad Cromer, Brandon Westgate, Jim Greco, Jake Johnson, Scott Johnston, Josh Stewart, Eric Koston, Karl Watson, Josh Friedberg, John Cardiel, Pontus Alv, Alex Olson, Jahmal Williams