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!

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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!

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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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Chany Jeanguenin | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 223

Chany Jeanguenin discusses growing up in Switzerland, skating in vert Swiss Cup contests, getting on Real distributer flow, coming to San Francisco for the first time not knowing that vert had died, focusing on street skating since no vert ramps were around, getting on Planet Earth then Rhythm Skateboards, filming for the Transworld video “Modus Operandi”, coming in hot with a 6 page ad introducing Expedition Skateboards, skating for Converse & the helium shoe, dealing with knee issues due to ACL surgery, studying Kung Fu, moving back to Switzerland, working at Alaia skatecamp in the Swiss Alps and much more!

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