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!

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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!

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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!

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Chris Chann | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 219

Chris Chann discusses growing up in Echo Pack CA, starting skating at 5 years old, how he got into making YouTube videos, going to college for kinesiology, getting his first check from YouTube, beating Chris Cole in Battle At The Berrics, feeling the stigma of being a “YouTube skater”, how he got sponsored by Adidas and eventually started getting paid, his channel getting demonetized, how he met Danny Duncan, filing skits with Jimmy Fallon and Casey Neistat, how he navigates brand deals, spending a year trying to land switch backside 360 flip on flat and much more!

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Mike Vallely – Stop And Chat | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 82

Mike Vallely Stops by and Chats with The Nine Club about moving to Des Moines, will he be adding pro’s and/or am’s to Street Plant, how skating has evolved over the past few years, designing his new Cariuma pro shoe, unlocking his character in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, the story behind the Zero Two velcro shoes, how he ended up going on Tony Hawk’s Gigantic Skatepark Tour, what really happened leading up to the infamous fight video taking on four guys and much more!

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