Steve “SALBA” Alba | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 215

Steve Alba discusses growing up in the Badlands, going to the Baldy full pipe at the age of 10, how pool skating came around, finding pools by flying over neighborhoods, winning the first pool contest, skating for Alva, turning pro for Kryptonics, skating over 5,000 pools, searching for dam’s with full pipes all over the country, being inducted into The Skateboarding Hall Of Fame, is Jessica Alba related to him and much more!

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Mike Vallely – Stop And Chat | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 82

Mike Vallely Stops by and Chats with The Nine Club about moving to Des Moines, will he be adding pro’s and/or am’s to Street Plant, how skating has evolved over the past few years, designing his new Cariuma pro shoe, unlocking his character in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, the story behind the Zero Two velcro shoes, how he ended up going on Tony Hawk’s Gigantic Skatepark Tour, what really happened leading up to the infamous fight video taking on four guys and much more!

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JENKEM – Ducky’s Bag of Tricks

Ducky Kovacs is a California native who has been living in the SF Bay Area for some time now. As we all know, SF is known for its hilly streets so you never know when you might be in a pinch for some quick pain relief after getting speed wobbles on a hill bomb or need a hygiene check after stepping in human poop.

He dumped out his bag for us and got a little warm-up in to ham it up for the camera.

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Ryan Decenzo | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 214

Ryan Decenzo discusses growing up in Canada, coming up with his brother Scott, how he got on RDS, Chet Thomas asking him to skate for Darkstar Skateboards, how he prepared to Nollie El Toro, some of his worst slams, planning out his video parts, 360 flipping 18 stairs live on ETN, filming for his Transworld part, winning Tampa Am, going to the Olympics as an alternate skater and much more!

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etnies Proudly Welcomes Jake Wooten to the Skate Team

“In all the years I’ve been skating etnies park, I’ve never seen someone skate it the way Jake did, pure destruction,” said etnies Team Manager Aidan Campbell.

People are drawn to Jake’s funny, energetic, and free personality. That personality is truly expressed in his powerful and impromptu skateboarding style – he’s a talented wild card with a deep bag of tricks! Hear from Sheckler and Trevor on why they are glad he’s now part of the squad.

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