2,313 views May 23, 2022 Gary Vaynerchuk discusses growing up in Queens NY before relocating to Edison New Jersey, hustling as a kid selling lemonade and baseball cards, seeing skateboarding explode in the 80’s, starting his media company Vayner Media, his take on marketing in the skateboard world, making decisions that are conflicts between the business opportunity and what your all about, keeping your authenticity, why TikTok is surpassing Instagram & how to utilize it by adding value, core skaters vs YouTube skaters vs TikTok skaters, what he would do if he skated a skateboard company and much more!
Jimmy Wilkins | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 229
Jimmy Wilkins discusses growing up in Columbus Ohio, getting into skating by playing Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, having to drive 2 hours to skate a vert ramp, building a vert ramp in his backyard then being sued by the city, moving to San Diego when he was 17, getting on Creature Skateboards through Darren Navarrette, skating for Lakai Footwear, breaking both arms and his pelvis trying the loop, skating Tony Hawk’s ramp almost everyday, leaving Creature and not having a sponsor for over a year, how getting on REAL Skateboards came about and much more!
Mark Normand | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 228
Mark Normand discusses growing up in New Orleans, starting to skate around 13 years old, his local shop Humidity, going to film school at the New York Film Academy, starting to do comedy right after college, moving to New York, the many parallels between comedy and skateboarding, how he goes about writing his comedy bits, perfecting his jokes in front of a live audience, his skate footage getting lost during Hurricane Katrina, opening for Amy Schumer early on, Jerry Seinfeld seeing his Tonight show appearance and reached out him, keeping up with all the new skaters coming up and much more!
Dave Swift | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 227
Dave Swift discusses growing up in Southern California, skating in CASL contests in the early 80’s, getting sponsored by Schmidt Stix, shot first photo in 1983 at Great Desert Ramp Battle, started working at Transworld in 1989 as a writer, asking Grant Brittain to borrow an old camera to start shooting photo’s again, getting his first photo printed in Transworld, shooting with Tom Penny when he first came to the states, the stories behind some of Heath Kirchart’s iconic photo’s & covers, switching from film to digital, Transworld magazine being over 400 pages, leaving Transworld to start The Skateboard Mag, how selling The Skateboard Mag to The Berrics came about and much more!
The Nine Club EXPERIENCE LIVE! 195 – Dan Mancina, Mike Anderson, Keep Pushing Inc
Chris Roberts and the Nine Club talk an Mancina, Mike Anderson, Keep Pushing Inc and more live!
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!
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!
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!
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!
The Nine Club EXPERIENCE LIVE! 183 – Nick Garcia, Austyn Gillette
The Nine Club comes at you live with Nick Garcia and Austyn Gillette!
Jason Ellis | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 213
Jason Ellis discusses growing up in Australia, how he got into skating vert, coming to California for the first time and staying at Lance Mountain’s house, getting into hard drugs then getting sober, why he retired from skateboarding, how he started in broadcasting, why he got fired from SiriusXM radio, coming out as bisexual on the Howard Stern Show, getting into MMA and starting EllisMania, doing stand up comedy, his podcast with Tony Hawk “Hawk vs Wolf”, getting back into skating again and loving it and much more!
The Nine Club EXPERIENCE LIVE! 182 – Ishod Wair, Mike Mo Capaldi
Ryan Sheckler leaves Plan B, Eric Koston partners with Swag Golf, Eldy’s Pick Of The Week, Nick Mathews’ Venture x Uprise part, board madness, pushing mongo, Budget Or Buttery and much more!