Neal Mims | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 183

Neal Mims discusses growing up in Jacksonville FL, looking up to Caine Gayle, having part of his calf muscle amputated, drinking at a young age, coming to California for the first time and skating with Jeremy Wray, getting on Platinum Skateboards, leaving Platinum to skate for Deca Skateboards, filming for the Transworld video “Feedback”, still drinking, skating for World Industries, finding out he had an 8 year old daughter back in Florida, driving a Taxi Cab, getting sober after asking a friend for help, starting the Neal Mims skate Academy, being a coach/mentor for some team USA skaters and much more!

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Ragdoll | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 182

Ragdoll discusses growing up in Las Vegas and Arizona, getting his first board, coming to California and skating with the Jamie Thomas and the Zero team, filming a Digital part, getting on Black Label, how he got the nickname Ragdoll, riding for Pig Wood, why all the firecrackers, filming for the Pig Wood video “Slaughterhouse”, using the same song as Anthony Van Engelen, the rumors of him on drugs, dealing with an eating disorder and depression and much more!

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Dave Duncan | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 181

Dave Duncan discusses growing up in San Diego CA, his first board with steel wheels, getting on Alva, turning pro and being the Alva team manager, skating contests in the 80’s, traveling the world building skate ramps for contests, Thrashin’ the movie, starting Focus with Christian Hosoi and Eddie Reategui, The Daggers, building the Vans Combi Pool, announcing skateboard contests and much more!

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Garrett Hill | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 180

Garrett Hill discusses growing up in San Fernando Valley CA, skating with Paul Rodriguez and Mikey Taylor, meeting Jamie Thomas at age 15, taking the train down to Vista to skate with the Zero team, filming for the Zero video “New Blood”, leaving Fallen Footwear to ride for Osiris, skating in red and black pants, filming for the Osiris video “Feed The Need’, switching from Zero to Threat Skateboards, getting back on Zero, the viral video of him slamming with coffee’s, retiring from skating, his Color X coloring book, becoming a Cardiovascular ultrasound technician and much more!

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Ian Michna | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 178

Ian Michna discusses growing up in New York, moving to Austria and started skating when he was 10, moving back to New York, starting Jenkem Magazine, the Jereme Rogers interview that put Jenkem on the map, what Jenkem actually means, getting their first advertisers for the mag, how the “Street League On Acid” piece came about, what it takes to run an online magazine, how they got Kayne West to try to ollie and much more!

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Nine Club EXPERIENCE #77 – Nyjah Huston’s House, Nestor Judkins, Antihero

Jeron Wilson joins us as we discuss the Antihero Skateboards: Arbitrary Function video, Inside Nyjah Huston’s Laguna Beach Mansion and Private Skatepark, Henry Gartland: True Grit | Santa Cruz Skateboards, Place Presents: Mobina & Melika, Nestor Judkins part and much more! Also, we’re picking 3 winners for last weeks raffle of The Nine Club’s white elephant gift exchange. This weeks raffle is 2 “My First Skateboard” books written by Karl Watson and a very mini My First Skateboard deck.

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Nestor Judkins | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 177

Nestor Judkins discusses growing up in Los Gatos CA, getting on NC Boardshop, skating with the Tilt Mode crew, getting on Santa Cruz Skateboards, leaving Santa Cruz for Enjoi, traveling to India for a Skateboarder Mag trip, his Transworld part in “Not Another Transworld Video”, playing a young Stan Smith in adidas’ “Legend Of Stan Smith”, filming for the Enjoi video “Oververt”, photography, his new part being leaked to Porn Hub and much more.

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