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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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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Circe Wallace | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 218

Circe Wallace discuss growing up in Eugene Oregon, finding skateboarding at a young age, getting a pro snowboard boot on Vans, tearing her ACL snowboarding, why she started to get into the business of being a sports agent, being the executive vice president of action sports at Wasserman, what an agent actually does for a skateboarder, representing Paul Rodriguez during his Nike SB deal and how that deal came about, the stigma of agents in skateboarding, representing some of the biggest names in skateboarding, how many clients she manages at any given time, at what point would a skateboarder benefit from having an agent and much more!

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Steve “SALBA” Alba | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 215

Steve Alba discusses growing up in the Badlands, going to the Baldy full pipe at the age of 10, how pool skating came around, finding pools by flying over neighborhoods, winning the first pool contest, skating for Alva, turning pro for Kryptonics, skating over 5,000 pools, searching for dam’s with full pipes all over the country, being inducted into The Skateboarding Hall Of Fame, is Jessica Alba related to him 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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