Don Brown Is Back! | The Nine Club – Episode 337

Don Brown discusses being at Sole Tech for 33 years, Pierre-André started Etnies in the late 1980s, Sole Tech helped make the first DC Shoes, Nike’s strategic plan to take over the skate shoe market, the Sole Tech sale to The Nidecker group, companies now a days have F.O.G.O.B. fear of going out of business, being diagnosed with prostate cancer, getting sober and much more!

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Chico Brenes | The Nine Club – Episode 317

Chico Brenes Discusses crossing the boarder into the US when he was a kid, going to EMB for the first time, how he got on World Industries, filming for the Love Child video, leaving World Industries for Chocolate Skateboards, his appendix bursting & needing emergency surgery in Nicaragua, doing the voiceovers for The Chocolate video “Las Nueve Vidas De Paco”, opening Central Skateshop in Nicaragua, why he ultimately left Chocolate, starting his company Chico Stix, getting into cycling after his knee injury, Chico Stix x Factor Bikes collab, Animal Thug and much more!

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Amelia Brodka | The Nine Club – Episode 304

Amelia Brodka discusses coming to the US from Poland when she was 8 years old, started skating at age 12, Jim Gray sponsoring her for Scarecrow Skateboards, turning pro for Arbor, founded Exposure skate in 2012 after making a documentary about women’s skateboarding called “Underexposed”, first place in the 2017 & 2018 European Park Championships, representing Poland in the Olympics for woman’s park, her now husband Alec Beck proposing to her at the Vans Combi pool during live broadcast and much more!

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Elliot Sloan | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 241

Elliot Sloan discusses growing up in New York, getting into vert skating then skating the mega, moving to California at 17 years old, getting sponsored by Birdhouse, building his vert ramp and mini mega in his backyard, his worst Mega ramp slams, leaving Rockstar for Monster, hosting the X Games at his house, the trials and tribulations of owning a mega compound, his new Fallen shoe, the toll that skating vert and mega has on his body and much more!

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Chany Jeanguenin | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 223

Chany Jeanguenin discusses growing up in Switzerland, skating in vert Swiss Cup contests, getting on Real distributer flow, coming to San Francisco for the first time not knowing that vert had died, focusing on street skating since no vert ramps were around, getting on Planet Earth then Rhythm Skateboards, filming for the Transworld video “Modus Operandi”, coming in hot with a 6 page ad introducing Expedition Skateboards, skating for Converse & the helium shoe, dealing with knee issues due to ACL surgery, studying Kung Fu, moving back to Switzerland, working at Alaia skatecamp in the Swiss Alps and much more!

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Jose Rojo | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 210

Jose Rojo discusses growing up in San Jose CA, skating transitions when he first started skating, meeting the Tilt Mode crew, Marc Johnson asking him to ride for Enjoi, skating for Savier Footwear, getting on Adio Footwear, surviving a crazy car accident while filming for “Bag Of Suck”, getting let go from Adio and getting on Etnies, why he retired from from Enjoi and much more!

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