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!
The Nine Club EXPERIENCE LIVE! 196 – Hermann Stene, Tampa Pro, Harry Lintell
Chris Roberts and The Nine Club talk Hermann Stene, Tampa Pro, Harry Lintell and more Live!
Dave Swift | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 227
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!
The Nine Club EXPERIENCE LIVE! 195 – Dan Mancina, Mike Anderson, Keep Pushing Inc
Chris Roberts and the Nine Club talk an Mancina, Mike Anderson, Keep Pushing Inc and more live!
Dan Mancina | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 226
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!
The Nine Club EXPERIENCE LIVE! 194 – Tyson & T Funk, Violet Promo, Hubba Hideout
Chris Roberts and the Nine Club talk Tyson & T Funk, Violet Promo, Hubba Hideout and more Live!
Madars Apse | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 225
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!
The Nine Club EXPERIENCE LIVE! 193 – There Skateboards, Money Time, Union Square
The Nine Club talks There Skateboards, Money Time, Union Square and more live!
Mark Oblow | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 224
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!
The Nine Club EXPERIENCE LIVE! 191 – Bobby Worrest, Phoenix Am, Daniel DuBois
The Nine Club talk Bobby Worrest, Phoenix Am, Daniel DuBois and more live!
Lee Smith | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 222
Lee Smith discusses growing up in San Fransisco CA, meeting Karl Watson at age 13, going to Embarcadero for the first time, staying with Mark Gonzales and getting on ATM Click, filming for the FTC video “A Fine Line Between Love & Haight”, skating for Menace Skateboards, filming for the City Stars video “Street Cinema”, turning pro for City Stars, riding for Santa Cruz, moving to Barcelona, starting his podcast “Mission Statement”, getting into oil painting and much more!
Jason Lee | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 221
Jason Lee discusses growing up in Southern California, first learning 360 flips in his backyard, meeting Mark Gonzales for the first time, skating Christian Hosoi’s backyard vert ramp, getting on Blind Skateboards, filming for “Video Days”, starting Blue Skateboards with Chris Pastras, why they ended Blue and started Stereo Skateboards, skating with Julien Stranger in San Francisco, how quickly skating was progressing in the early 90’s, why he “retired” from skating and started acting, shooting his first movie, doing voice over work for video games and being in Skate 3 as Coach Frank, getting the lead role in the TV show “My Name Is Earl”, taking up photography, his photography books and much more!