The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Chris Ray discusses growing up in Northern California, trying to get sponsored, getting into filming, meeting Ty Evans and getting hired to help film the Lakai video “Fully Flared”, making four Transworld videos, winning X-games gold for Mike Mo’s real street part, getting hired by DC Shoes, filming Robbie Maddison riding a wave on a motorcycle, being a GoPro ambassador, working on film projects outside of skateboarding and much more!

Johnny Schillereff discusses growing up overseas and the east coast, getting kicked out of his house in high school, first getting sponsored by Alva, going to college while being homeless, skating for New Deal, meeting a young Bam and his dad at Woodward, founding Element Skateboards, moving out to California, designing the 411 Video Magazine logo, how On Video came about, how he’s kept Element relevant for 26 years, the new Element “Peace” video and much more!

We discuss Jason Ellis finally starting to interview skateboarders, Almost Skateboards x Skateistan w/ Sky Brown | Empowering The Youth Through Skateboarding World Wide, David Reyes on DOG, Andy Anderson: a Short Skate Film, Jamie Foy on New Balance#, T-Puds Leaves Plan B, Daewon leaves Almost, Nyjah killing it in Leggings at X Games Sydney, Girl “Doll” Video, REAL Skateboards presents Tanner Van Vark, Mission Statement Episode 02: Gino Iannucci, Neil Hendrix accused of sexual assault, Jason...

Don “Nuge” Nguyen discusses growing up in Oklahoma, the first person to ollie El Toro, riding for Hollywood Skateboards, staying at Kris Markovich’s house, trashing his house in the Foundation video “Cataclysmic Abyss”, bombing one of the steepest streets in America, Andrew Reynolds calling him to ride for Baker Skateboards, saving the day after the brakes went out on a Skate Rock tour in South Africa, playing bass in two bands, his company Volume 4, filming for Baker 4 and much more!

Sam Smyth discusses growing up in San Francisco CA, spending every day at EMB, team manager for Experience Skateboards, Cream Skateboards & Profile Skateboards, James Kelch dismissing people from EMB, living with Mike Carroll, moving to Los Angeles, team manager for Girl & Chocolate for the last 19 years, the new Girl video “Doll”, Mikemo blowing the surprise of Malto turning pro, how EMB started becoming a bust and much more!

We sit down with Sunny Suljic to discuss the new Jonah Hill movie “Mid 90’s”, Steezus takes the Zima/Jolly Rancher taste test, Franky Villani - Always on my mind part, Marcello Campanello - Canal New York: 'Mode' Part, Front Flip down the Lyon 25 stair, They Built A Skatepark Out Of Salt | Jaakko Ojanen’s White Desert, Introducing /// Off Campus, Alfonso Fernandez 2018 Video Part and much more!

Evan Smith discusses growing up in Florida, watching his uncle skate in Tampa Am, going on a trip with Listen Skateboards, Jeff Pang hooking him up with DC Shoes, his experimental phase with psychedelics, getting on Element Skateboards, his love for music, filming for the Element “PEACE” video and much more! Buy Element “PEACE” on iTunes: http://bit.ly/2CefLy8

We talk about Derek Hanlon being arrested for skating at a public skatepark, The Noin Club instagram, the new Element video “PEACE”, Jaime Foy’s Hall Of Meat, Sitting down to pee, Cam Sedlick’s “Damaged” part, Jim Greco’s new film “Jobs? Never!”, The new Foundation video “Souvenir” and much more!

Kevin “Spanky” Long discusses growing up in Oak Park CA, getting on IG Boardshop, entering CASL contests, getting sponsored by Sixteen Skateboards, riding for City Stars, going on a Baker tour then getting on shortly after, filming for the Emerica video “This Is Skateboarding”, Etch A Sketch art, partying to hard, getting his Baker board taken away, spending two weeks in quarantine after getting burned by Neckface, sobering up, getting his Baker board back, Baker 4 and much more!

Corey Duffel discusses growing up in Walnut Creek CA, getting on Think Skateboards at 13 years old, almost riding for Baker Skateboards, going to Huntington Beach to stay with Ed Templeton, his Big Brother interview, getting on Foundation Skateboards, some of his worst slams, skating with the Chief, filming for a new video part and much more!

Erik Bragg stops by to talk about his departure from ETN, Out There: Gilbert Crockett, Nike - Dream Crazy, Trent McClung | HB to BZ Part, Pedro Delfino's "Welcome to Deathwish" Part, The Battle of Normandy 2018 and much more!

Jimmy Gorecki discusses growing up in Norristown PA, flying to California for the first time to stay with Clyde Singleton, getting on Aesthetics Skateboards, skating at Love Park, staying at Chris Roberts’ house, having to make the switch over to Zoo York, skating for Ice Cream Footwear, working for Disney, starting his own company JSP, No. One System, Standard Issue and much more!

Gershon Mosley discusses growing up in Compton CA, moving to San Jose, starting to skate at 13 years old, getting on Santa Cruz, riding for Human Skateboards, the reason he left Powell, getting on the A-Team then going to Blind, filming for the Transworld video “The Reason”, Globe Footwear, why he left the skate industry, working on his own project The oBtuseconcept and much more!

We talk about our Nine Club x Es Collab, WKND lunch ramp tour video, Lizzie Armanto does the loop, Polar - We blew it at some point video, “I’m Glad I’m Not Me”, The Dime Challenge and much more!

Cairo Foster discusses moving around a lot growing up, spending his later teens living in Cairo Egypt, taking the Greyhound from Florida to California, getting sponsored by Supernaut Skateboards, Leaving Real to start Popwar, filming for the Transworld video “The Reason”, getting on Lakai and filming for Fully Flared, skating for Enjoi, working with Adidas managing social media and much more!

Bastien Salabanzi discusses growing up in Toulon France, starting skating at 9 years old, getting sponsored by 16 Skateboards, flying to California for the first time, filming for the Flip video “Sorry”, turning pro for Flip Skateboards, leaving his sponsors and returning to France, skating for Jart Skateboards, winning a spot in Street League, Paul Rodriguez asking him to ride for Primitive Skateboards and much more!

We traveled to Boston to Experience the Zumiez Best Foot Forward Finals, adidas Skateboarding X NUMBERS edition, Cody Lockwood's "Creature" Part, Nike SB | I-58 Tour | Sunbelt, Atlantic Drift - Episode 8 - Hawaii and much more!

Rob Gonzalez discusses growing up in Long Beach CA, getting boards from Steve Saiz, riding for Entity Skateboards, leaving entity for Shaft Wood, turning pro for New Deal, Kastel Footwear, transitioning from New Deal to Popwar, starting Listen Skateboards with Danny Montoya and how it transitioned into BLVD Skateboards and much more!

Antwuan Dixon discusses starting skating at 12 yeas old, getting sponsored by Transitions, meeting Andrew Reynolds & Erik Ellington at ASR, filming for Baker 3, switching from Baker to Deathwish, going to jail, getting on Supra, his favorite skaters, his board company Rawdog, Straye Footwear and much more!

Eric Dressen discusses starting skating at 8 years old, asking Tony Alva if he can skate for his team, auditioning for the movie Thrashin’, getting on Dogtown, filming his “Speed Freaks” part in 2 days, leaving Dogtown for Santa Cruz, getting 3rd in the Savannah Slamma contest, getting let go from Santa Cruz, how he got into Tattooing, getting back on Santa Cruz, traveling for tattooing and skating, how the salad grind came to be and much more!