Dane Vaughn | The Nine Club #344

Dane Vaughn discusses growing up in Baton Rouge Louisiana, getting hit by a van when he was a kid, getting in trouble & being sent to a boys camp for troubled teens, moving to Texas & skating with Auby Taylor, getting a pro shoe with Supra, turning pro for DGK, working on some new video parts, Straye Footwear and much more!

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Tom Karangelov & Matt Bublitz | The Nine Club – Episode 332

Tom Karangelov & Matt Bublitz discuss Matt board sliding El Toro when he was a kid & his dad filmed it, Tom K winning Thrasher’s “One in a Million”, Tom’s previous sponsors Zero, 3D & Skate Mental, Tom asking Jamie Thomas to edit his Cold War part, Matt working for Thrasher & filming SOTY trips, putting in the work to fix spots, coming up with the concept for the New Balance cardboard video & building the set and much more!

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Chris Russell | The Nine Club – Episode 326

Chris Russell discusses growing up in Hermosa Beach, Darren Navarrette getting him on Creature Skateboards, how different it is going from skating bowls & street to now skating vert, injuring his collarbone Tampa pro, getting into Jiu Jitsu, almost loosing his eye at Swampfest, turning pro while on KOTR, his Dad learning to skate with him, recently getting the cover of Thrasher and much more!

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Margie Didal | The Nine Club – Episode 323

Margie Didal discusses growing up in the Philippines, winning her first contest after 8 months of skating, first time flying in a plane to Manila, first time she entered a bigger contest like X Games, going viral after posting Tony Hawk on her instagram, What it was like staying in the Olympic village sleeping on a cardboard bed, getting on New Balance, breaking her ankle in Brazil, how she got on Red Bull and much more!

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Rune Glifberg | The Nine Club – Episode 313

Rune Glifberg discusses growing up in Copenhagen, Moving to California with the Flip team in the early 90’s, Going pro for Flip, making his mark in the X Games, why he never got into the Mega Ramps, Kareem Campbell asking him to ride for Axion Footwear, being in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater video games, finding Ali Boulala, Arto Saari & Bastien Salabanzi, skating in the Olympics and much more!

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Gary Rogers | The Nine Club – Episode 311

Gary Rogers discusses making his first sponsor me tape and not sending it to anyone, meeting Joel from Metro & how they started Skateline NBD, the Crailtap camp showing him love early on, why Mark Suciu is his favorite skater, The Ride Channel wanting Skateline NBD, getting sober, Pushing For Pink, bringing Skateline NBD to Thrasher, ending up in the Bake & Destroy video, doing announcing work for X Games, SOTY and much more!

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Rodney Smith | The Nine Club – Episode 309

Rodney Smith discusses skating in the 80’s, meeting Tom Groholski, starting Shut Skateboards with Bruno Musso, going to the Cow Skates contest in Ohio with Mike Vallely, creating new shapes for skateboards out of necessity & hand making boards when Shut first started, starting Zoo York with Eli Gesner & Adam Schatz, selling Zoo York in 2001, the opportunity to work with Dave Chappelle but instead having to work with Ashton Kutcher, finally saying goodbye to Zoo York and much more!

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