Tag: nine club experience

Brian Wenning | The Nine Club #412

Brian Wenning discusses coming back to The Nine Club eight years later, dealing with his substance abuse, doing drugs in skid row in downtown LA, hitting rock bottom, getting arrested October 27, 2021, detoxing in county jail, solitary confinement & hallucinations, getting sober, getting back on a board, still riding a 7.75, filming the DC video, the DGK guest pro model that sold out, his jail-tablet and much more!

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Micky Papa | The Nine Club #408

Micky Papa discusses growing up in Canada, scheming to help his family, drinking when he was a teenager, jumping through the hoops to get sponsored, how Sluggo helped his family during the Christmas holiday, getting a commercial gig & paid his family’s rent, getting on Blind Skateboards, getting into SLS from the Tampa Pro contest, how quad tendinitis almost took him out, Yuto staying at his house early on in his career and much more!

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Pat Ngoho | The Nine Club #357

Pat Ngoho discusses colliding with Lincoln Ueda at the Combi contest, skating empty pools around the LAX area, Herbie Fletcher in 1963 skating a pool, Steve Olson’s banked slalom at the Marina Skatepark, the Gold Cup, Stacy Peralta asking him to join Powell, going from skating pools to street skating, living in Venice when skateboarding was becoming popular, nose wheelies & manuals at the Savannah Slamma 3 and much more!

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Jaayfilms & Orio | The Nine Club #353

Jaayfilms & Orio discuss how the idea to skate across America happened, all the people that were doubting them in the beginning, what they did to prepare for the trip, dealing with cops on the road, talking with Chad Caruso along the way, Bryan Arnett pranking them, skating through the snow, raising money for charity, skating across Japan next 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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Karl Watson | The Nine Club – Episode 321

Karl Watson discusses growing up in the Bay area, Nick Lockman and Sam Smyth not bringing Karl to EMB until he could actually skate, meeting James Kelch for the first time, getting on Think Skateboards, leaving Think to skate for World Industries, filming for the Love Child video but not being in Love Child, being demoted to am when getting on Mad Circle then turning pro for them, getting on Expedition then starting Organika, working for adidas and much more!

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Steve Van Doren | The Nine Club – Episode 315

Steve Van Doren discusses his dad working for another shoe brand prior to starting Vans, starting to work at Vans when he was 12 years old, where the Vans side stripe came from, working with Tony Alva and other skaters to develop the first Vans skate shoe, Vans appearance in the movie Fast Times At Ridgemont High, the Vans Warped Tour, having to file a chapter 11 in 1984 then selling the company in 1988, Rowley’s Staple Center statue, VF Corp coming into the picture in 2004, The origins of the waffle sole 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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Jack Olson | The Nine Club – Episode 296

Jack Olson discusses growing up in Minnesota & skating 3rd Lair Skatepark, coming up skating contests, getting on Real Skateboards, best trick contests at Tampa, doing a switch feeble on the Hollywood 16 on multiple occasions, turning pro for Real Skateboards multiple times, opening a skate shop called After Hours in Minnesota, his new part “After Hours” and much more!

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