Jamie Thomas Launching A New Footwear Brand “Warsaw” | The Nine Club #341

Jamie Thomas is launching his new footwear company Warsaw this week, so we sat down with him to discuss his footwear journey starting with getting on Emerica & designing his first pro model, learning the process of making shoes, leaving Emerica to help launch Adio Footwear, leaving Adio for Circa Footwear, starting Fallen with Ken Block and Damon Way from DC Shoes, the end of Fallen Footwear, starting his new brand Warsaw, partnering up with skate shops to launch Warsaw, how much it’s costing him to launch Warsaw, his 50th birthday part coming soon and much more!

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Jake Hayes | The Nine Club – Episode 339

Jake Hayes discusses growing up in Sydney, Australian Skater of the Year 2016, Dustin Dollin having his back, texting Andrew Reynolds asking about Deathwish after he wasn’t going to get on Baker, going from DC Shoes to New Balance & getting on Dickies, why he didn’t have much footage in Baker Has a Deathwish Part 2 video, filming for the Dickies video “Honeymoon”, what’s his board setup and much more!

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Geoff Rowley | The Nine Club – Episode 338

Geoff Rowley discusses getting on Toy Machine, starting to film a full part, 25 years with Vans, hunting keeps him in shape, his knife & tool company Civilware, never having a period of burnout from skateboarding, his thoughts on the Olympics, Dan Sturt stories, trying to get all the covers of the mags in the same month, limited release of his Vans shoe coming out and much more!

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

Don Brown discusses being at Sole Tech for 33 years, Pierre-AndrĂ© 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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Deville Nunes | The Nine Club – Episode 335

Deville Nunes discusses being the team manager of Powell Peralta for 20 years, giving Rick Kosick photos for Big Brother, first photo in a magazine was of Donger, shooting Carlos Ruiz back lip El Toro, filming the Powell video “Fun” video & Joe Krolick edited it, Powell Peralta’s YouTube approach, getting sued by a hotel & a water park, team manager pet peeves and much more!

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Danny Minnick | The Nine Club – Episode 333

Danny Minnick discusses growing up in Seattle & living in San Francisco for 6 years, making sponsor me videos with Leigh Peterson, living at the H-Street house, filming with Chad Muska & Peter Smolik for the Shorty’s videos, living with Christian Hosoi, getting sober, being a stunt double for Shawn White for a commercial, Robert Downey Jr commissioning him to do art for his private gym and much more!

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Toan Nguyen | The Nine Club – Episode 330

Toan Nguyen discusses how he got hooked up with Shorty’s at the Huntington Beach park, doing magic tricks at Denny’s & spinning things on his fingers, getting photo incentives as an Am, getting sponsored by LRG by meeting the owner Jonas at a rave, why he got kicked off Osiris, Shorty’s adding new riders after the “Guilty” video, why he got let go from Shorty’s, buying cars from auction and selling them on Craigslist or Facebook marketplace and much more!

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