it was Blender who made it a thing to stall inverts/handplants as long as possible...he was the first to talk about it like it was a significant part of skating and he was the first to make
talking during handplants a thing
i am so glad someone has this footage from that contest (Sacto vert) up on youtube...Neil Blender in one of his brightest primes...just destroying limits (edit: it looks like his arm is doing something it should not do in that one invert they keep repeating)
ps: motherfucking backside ollie up the extension to 50-50 (00:47)...absolutely lightyears ahead of people
pps: Gonz too...one of the reasons Max Schaaf said that Gonz does all of his favorite tricks on vert (in his Epicly Later'd)...eggplants for days...you can tell just by looking at those straight-ass arms that these were stalled forever