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The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Alex Sorgente | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Alex Sorgente | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Alex Sorgente discusses getting sponsored at a very young age, getting known through the contest circuit, skating a water park in Dubai & skydiving, what happened with Plan B, his first part getting deleted from Thrasher, why he stopped skating the mega, Nyah Huston asking him to ride for Disorder Skateboards, filming for his new Red Bull part “Vero Amore” and much more!

Edited by Tim Olson & Roger Bagley

Mike Santarossa | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Mike Santarossa | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Mike Santarossa discusses his dad working for Powell Peralta, going to school & skating with Frankie Hill, living across the street from Powell Skate Zone, getting on Dogtown, leaving Dogtown for Acme Skateboards, skating for Prime Skateboards, why he got kicked off Prime, getting on Powell Peralta, being on the Rolanda show, his skate lesson company Triumph Skateboarding Club and much more!

Edited by Tim Olson & Roger Bagley

Ish Cepeda | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Ish Cepeda | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Ish Cepeda discusses getting on Habitat homie flow after moving to California, couch surfing and living with Ronnie Kessner, getting boards from Element, how he got on April Skateboards, going on Jamie Foy's SOTY trip, what Am Scramble trips are like, getting on DC Shoes & his colorways, his YouTube channel Gas Giants, filming for the Godspeed video, filming for an upcoming April video and much more!

Edited by Tim Olson & Roger Bagley

Kris Markovich | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Kris Markovich | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Kris Markovich discusses growing up in Florida, getting on Dogtown & going pro, quitting G&S in while he was in Europe, filming for the 101 video, shooting with Dan Staurt, having a Foundation Ad while still on 101, kick flipping the big Carlsbad gap & the cover of Transworld, what happened with the floating wheel on the cover of Big Brother, quitting Element for Foundation, why he left so many sponsors, what exactly happened with Hollywood Skateboards, riding for Blind & filming for What If, the one sponsor he regrets ever leaving and much more!

Edited by Tim Olson & Roger Bagley

Jake Darwen | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Jake Darwen | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Jake Darwen discusses growing up in New Zealand, getting into photography after getting hurt multiple times, coming up as a photographer in New Zealand, working with DC Shoes, moving to Los Angeles, getting a job at New Balance, his approach to photography, working with Shane O'neill & April Skateboards, what it's like shooting with Yuto Horigome, getting help up at gunpoint, fisheye vs long lens and much more!

Edited by Tim Olson & Roger Bagley

Maurio McCoy | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Maurio McCoy | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Maurio McCoy discusses growing up in Reading, PA, moving to Los Angeles, winning the Girl Skateboards Open House Contest, skating at Bam’s park, meeting Tom Asta & getting on Santa Cruz Skateboards, the support he has from his family, turning pro for Santa Cruz, getting second in SLS, his secret for noseblunt nollie flips, the status of his shoe sponsors, the upcoming Saints & Sinners tour and much more!

Edited by Tim Olson & Roger Bagley

Jake Wooten | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Jake Wooten | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Jake Wooten discusses growing up in Tennessee, his home life as young kid, how his uncle influenced his life, breaking his leg at 8 years old, meeting Mike Vallely at Woodward & getting on Elephant Skateboards, Elephant ending and moving on to NHS, officially getting on Santa Cruz Skateboards & turning pro, his new part “Big Sky" part and much more!

Edited by Tim Olson & Roger Bagley

Bucky Lasek | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Bucky Lasek | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Bucky Lasek discusses growing up in Baltimore Maryland, getting discovered by Stacy Peralta, staying with Tony Hawk in California, trick progression in his early days, being let go from Powell Peralta in the early 90’s, getting on Birdhouse and blowing out his knee, why he ultimately left Birdhouse, getting on (and off) of Element Skateboards, his return to Powell Peralta, his professional car career, what it was like going on the Tony Hawk's Gigantic Skatepark Tour and much more!

Edited by Tim Olson & Roger Bagley

Henry Sanchez | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Henry Sanchez | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Henry Sanchez discusses growing up in Daly City CA, getting on REAL skateboards at 15 years old, skating with Mark Gonzales & Guy Mariano then getting on Blind Skateboards, filming for Tim and Henry's pack of lies, why he didn’t skate for Girl Skateboards, coming out of dark times and filming a part for Transworld’s Sight Unseen video, skating for Lucky Skateboards after Sight Unseen, working with Stevie Williams for his DGK guest board, why he quit skating for 16 years, what inspires him to skate now and much more!

Edited by Tim Olson & Roger Bagley

Kanten Russell | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Kanten Russell | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Kanten Russell discusses growing up in Southern California, his first photo in Thrasher Magazine that later became a T-shirt, skating for BBC Skateboards, getting on Sims then Chapter 7 Skateboards, why he didn't get on Plan B Skateboards, starting Shaft with Oscar Jordan, shooting with Dan Stuart, turning down Tod Swank to ride for Foundation and getting on Voice Skateboards, meeting Peter Smolik for the first time, getting on Planet Earth Skateboards, filming for the Troubleshooters video, first pro Osiris shoe “The Defcon”, filming for the Osiris The Storm video, skatepark design for New Line Skateparks and much more!

Edited by Tim Olson & Roger Bagley

Ryan Sheckler | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Ryan Sheckler | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Ryan Sheckler discusses growing up in Southern California, starting to skate at age 2, coming up in the CASL contests, skating for World Industries, turning pro at 13 for Almost Skateboards, why he decided to quit doing his MTV show Life Of Ryan, winning Thrasher's Bust Or Bail contest, the El Toro backside flip, leaving Almost for Plan B Skateboards, skating the freeway overpass from the "You Good" video, 25 years with Etnies Footwear, breaking both ankles & crushing his L1 Vertebra during ETN's "Face Melters”, why he decided to leave Plan B, going to treatment for alcohol addiction & now being sober, starting his new company Sandlot Times, filming for his new Red Bull part and much more!

Edited by Tim Olson & Roger Bagley

Jeff Tremaine | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Jeff Tremaine | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Jeff Tremaine discusses growing up in Rockville MD, going to school with Spike Jonze, moving to Los Angeles and getting a job at Freestylin Magazine, Jason Lee skating to his band’s song “The Knife Song” in Blind Video Days, getting hired at Big Brother Magazine, working with Steve Rocco, what it was like after Big Brother sold to Larry Flint, pitching Jackass to HBO executives, the bidding war between MTV and Comedy Central for Jackass, the early stages of filming Jackass and having the cops called on them, why they decided to leave MTV and start making movies, helping to create Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory and also Rob & Big, how Jackass Forever came about 10 years after Jackass 3D, the recent release of Jackass 4.5 and much more!

Edited by Tim Olson & Roger Bagley

Gary Vaynerchuk | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Gary Vaynerchuk | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Gary Vaynerchuk discusses growing up in Queens NY before relocating to Edison New Jersey, hustling as a kid selling lemonade and baseball cards, seeing skateboarding explode in the 80’s, starting his media company Vayner Media, his take on marketing in the skateboard world, making decisions that are conflicts between the business opportunity and what your all about, keeping your authenticity, why TikTok is surpassing Instagram & how to utilize it by adding value, core skaters vs YouTube skaters vs TikTok skaters, what he would do if he skated a skateboard company and much more!

Edited by Tim Olson & Roger Bagley

Jimmy Wilkins | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Jimmy Wilkins | 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, leaving Creature and not having a sponsor for over a year, how getting on REAL Skateboards came about and much more!

Edited by Tim Olson & Roger Bagley

Mark Normand | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Mark Normand | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

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, opening for Amy Schumer early on, Jerry Seinfeld seeing his Tonight show appearance and reached out him, keeping up with all the new skaters coming up and much more!

Edited by Tim Olson & Roger Bagley

Dave Swift | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Dave Swift | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

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 behind some of Heath Kirchart’s iconic photo’s & covers, switching from film to digital, Transworld magazine being over 400 pages, leaving Transworld to start The Skateboard Mag, how selling The Skateboard Mag to The Berrics came about and much more!

Edited by Tim Olson & Roger Bagley

Dan Mancina | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Dan Mancina | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

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 impaired kids into skating, raising money to build the world's first accessible skatepark in Michigan, filming for his new video part and much more!

Madars Apse | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Madars Apse | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

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 and Library’s, his Red Bull series “Skate Tales” season 2 and much more!

Mark Oblow | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Mark Oblow | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

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 Kris Markovich, why Vita Footwear ultimately went out of business, building the Quicksilver team, being with Dylan Rieder while he was battling leukemia, doing fashion photography, getting into chain stitching, his new upcoming line with RVCA and much more!

Edited by Tim Olson & Roger Bagley

Chany Jeanguenin | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Chany Jeanguenin | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

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 for Converse & the helium shoe, dealing with knee issues due to ACL surgery, studying Kung Fu, moving back to Switzerland, working at Alaia skatecamp in the Swiss Alps and much more!