The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Jimmy Wilkins discusses growing up in Columbus Ohio, getting into skating by playing Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, having to drive 2 hours to skate a vert ramp, building a vert ramp in his backyard then being sued by the city, moving to San Diego when he was 17, getting on Creature Skateboards through Darren Navarrette, skating for Lakai Footwear, breaking both arms and his pelvis trying the loop, skating Tony Hawk’s ramp almost everyday...

Mark Normand discusses growing up in New Orleans, starting to skate around 13 years old, his local shop Humidity, going to film school at the New York Film Academy, starting to do comedy right after college, moving to New York, the many parallels between comedy and skateboarding, how he goes about writing his comedy bits, perfecting his jokes in front of a live audience, his skate footage getting lost during Hurricane Katrina, open...

Dave Swift discusses growing up in Southern California, skating in CASL contests in the early 80’s, getting sponsored by Schmidt Stix, shot first photo in 1983 at Great Desert Ramp Battle, started working at Transworld in 1989 as a writer, asking Grant Brittain to borrow an old camera to start shooting photo’s again, getting his first photo printed in Transworld, shooting with Tom Penny when he first came to the states, the stories...

Mike Anderson's "Blackhole" Spitfire Part, Tyshawn & Na-Kel Smith Leaving FA, Dan Mancina's "Keep Rolling" Part, The “Light Years” Video, Budget Or Buttery, Could there ever be an American professional skateboard league, Should more skaters tone down their Instagram accounts and focus solely on putting out video parts, Eldy’s Pick Of The Week and much more!

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Dan Mancina discusses growing up in Michigan, moving to Los Angeles, working at the skateshop ZJ Boarding House, getting diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa when he was 13 years old, starting to loose his vision at the age of 20, first getting flowed by Real Skateboards & Adidas, how he uses a white cane to skate, getting an Actions Realized board with Real Skateboards, starting his nonprofit “Keep Pushing” to get more visually...

Madars Apse discusses growing up in Latvia, selling flowers to buy his first board, getting on Element flow through his local shop, going to college in Barcelona, gettin on DC shoes, moving to London for a year to finish school, getting Kingpin Magazine’s European skater of the year award in 2012, turning pro for Element, filming for his Element “Peace” part, working on projects in Latvia to make skateboarding legal at some Museums...

Mark Oblow discusses growing up in Hawaii, skating early on with Christian Hosoi, Lance Mountain, Mark Gonzalez, Natas Kaupas, getting his photos published in Thrasher Magazine when he was in the 9th grade, skating for Vision Skateboards, why he turned down going pro, skating with Gator, working for Think Skateboards, filming and editing the Color video, Mike Ternasky being a mentor to him, creating Prime Skateboards along with Kri...

Chany Jeanguenin discusses growing up in Switzerland, skating in vert Swiss Cup contests, getting on Real distributer flow, coming to San Francisco for the first time not knowing that vert had died, focusing on street skating since no vert ramps were around, getting on Planet Earth then Rhythm Skateboards, filming for the Transworld video “Modus Operandi”, coming in hot with a 6 page ad introducing Expedition Skateboards, skating f...

Lee Smith discusses growing up in San Fransisco CA, meeting Karl Watson at age 13, going to Embarcadero for the first time, staying with Mark Gonzales and getting on ATM Click, filming for the FTC video “A Fine Line Between Love & Haight”, skating for Menace Skateboards, filming for the City Stars video “Street Cinema”, turning pro for City Stars, riding for Santa Cruz, moving to Barcelona, starting his podcast “Mission Stateme...

Jason Lee discusses growing up in Southern California, first learning 360 flips in his backyard, meeting Mark Gonzales for the first time, skating Christian Hosoi’s backyard vert ramp, getting on Blind Skateboards, filming for “Video Days”, starting Blue Skateboards with Chris Pastras, why they ended Blue and started Stereo Skateboards, skating with Julien Stranger in San Francisco, how quickly skating was progressing in the early ...

Jaime Owens discusses growing up in South Carolina, coming out to California to shoot photos, becoming associate producer of Jackass, leaving Jackass to become the photo editor of Skateboarder Magazine, his first cover of Andrew Reynolds frontside flipping Wilshire 15, shooting the Videos Days 20 year anniversary photo, leaving Skateboarder Magazine to be editor In Chief of Transworld Magazine, seeing the decline of magazines, crea...