Category: Interview

Portraits: Tristan Rennie

While in kindergarten, learning different shapes, letters, how to count, and all other foundation skills, Tristan Rennie knew that he wanted to be a professional skateboarder. Little did kindergarten Tristan know that dream would come true, but his adult self is now taking up a career that most kids would pick as their dream job.

Tristan has devoted 20 years of his life to skateboarding. He has covered contest podiums, compiled remarkable footage, and continues to keep the spirit of backyard pool skating alive. Only most recently, in the past four years, has everything outside of skateboarding changed for Tristan, as he becomes a father and husband, which leads him to build a career safety net outside of skateboarding. Get an in-depth look into Tristan’s current life decisions, goals, and dreams in his latest Portraits video.

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Danny Minnick | The Nine Club – Episode 333

Danny Minnick discusses growing up in Seattle & living in San Francisco for 6 years, making sponsor me videos with Leigh Peterson, living at the H-Street house, filming with Chad Muska & Peter Smolik for the Shorty’s videos, living with Christian Hosoi, getting sober, being a stunt double for Shawn White for a commercial, Robert Downey Jr commissioning him to do art for his private gym and much more!

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Andy Anderson Is Back! | The Nine Club – Episode 331

Andy Anderson discusses working on his new part “Crazy Wisdom”, filming with Nigel Alexander, his Nano Cubic wheel & theory map griptape, darkslides at Tampa Pro, his ABD collectibles project, the Natas spin to Jamie Foy, a massive kinked curved 5050 & how it healed him, how taxing filming a video part is these day and much more!

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The Santa Cruz SUPER S.K.A.T.E. Show | Episode 1

Eight skaters, endless props and challenges, seven games of SKATE unlike anything we’ve ever done before! Each game has its own challenging theme that is a surprise to the skaters participating and its own unique set of rebate challenges which could extend their game and chances of winning it all. This is the Santa Cruz Super SKATE Show.

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Toan Nguyen | The Nine Club – Episode 330

Toan Nguyen discusses how he got hooked up with Shorty’s at the Huntington Beach park, doing magic tricks at Denny’s & spinning things on his fingers, getting photo incentives as an Am, getting sponsored by LRG by meeting the owner Jonas at a rave, why he got kicked off Osiris, Shorty’s adding new riders after the “Guilty” video, why he got let go from Shorty’s, buying cars from auction and selling them on Craigslist or Facebook marketplace and much more!

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