Category: Interview

Henry Sanchez | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 236

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!

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Shop Talk at Vans Space 198 – JENKEM

This year, to celebrate Go Skateboarding Day, JENKEM decided to skip the skating and instead headed over to Vans Space 198 in Brooklyn to bother their neighbors. The team had their doors open in celebration of the day, complete with a DJ spinning a bunch of Wu-Tang and a packed-out park. The locals we talked to in between spurts of rain had a lot to say about optimal skate video length, dream blunt rotations, and how to celebrate Go Skateboarding Day properly. Turns out there is no wrong way to celebrate – except maybe by sitting in the rain interviewing random people.

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Marbie | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 235

Marbie discusses growing up in Iowa, moving to Oakland, breaking her leg 3 different times, coming out and getting back into skating after breaking her leg, getting sponsored by CCS and going pro for There Skateboards, how her name Marbie came about, the buttslide down Clipper, her process for filming video parts, how her Skullcandy earbud colab came about, her art and having art shows, filming for a new Spitfire part and much more!

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VICE’s Taji Ameen Revisits His Skate Past – JENKEM

Over the past few years, Taji’s work with VICE and the upper echelons of New York Media took him away from his skateboarding past a little bit. We wanted to have him reconnect with skating and reminisce on those early days, so JENKEM met up with him and his old friend Billy to skate, catch up, and freestyle a little bit.

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Kanten Russell | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 234

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!

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