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The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

#119 - Chris Ray

The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Chris Roberts

Hobbies, Sports, Leisure, Society & Culture

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2018

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

Chris Ray discusses growing up in Northern California, trying to get sponsored, getting into filming, meeting Ty Evans and getting hired to help film the Lakai video “Fully Flared”, making four Transworld videos, winning X-games gold for Mike Mo’s real street part, getting hired by DC Shoes, filming Robbie Maddison riding a wave on a motorcycle, being a GoPro ambassador, working on film projects outside of skateboarding and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Well, we are back, huh? We're back at the 9 Club everybody. Listen. Today we got a special

0:13.2

guest, Mr. Chris Ray is with us. Critically acclaimed cinematographer, one of a bunch of awards,

0:22.6

huh? Probably filmed your favorite skater, skating skate video. Thanks for having me. I usually

0:28.3

prefer to be behind the camera, but this is going to be here. This is great. This is awesome. This is great, bro.

0:33.2

So you and Raj just go ahead and start talking. Talk about me. Megapixels, everything. Trust me. I'm

0:41.6

sure that cool. Yeah, brought up. I'm talking about new red hydrogen. You got here and Kelly and me

0:45.9

will just not even say it work. You know, but I know, thank you so much for coming, dude. This is great,

0:51.9

bro. You're doing DC now. Go pro. Yeah, I mean, I do a lot stuff with everybody, but mainly DC is

0:57.5

what I'm at right now. Okay. Just been there the last eight years and it's been good. So managing

1:06.8

their films department got brought in kind of do like a lot of the skate stuff. And then it's

1:11.9

opened up to do really anything and everything. I mean, we have filmed Ken Block. Did you film a guy

1:18.5

riding across the water? You know what I did actually. I did film that. Oh, yeah. I did film that

1:23.1

with the crew that we have at DC. It's all skate filmers basically. And they had us go out to

1:29.6

Tahiti for three weeks and film that and basically when Jeff Taylor came to us, he was like, look,

1:35.3

we have this idea. We're going to film a guy ride a motorcycle on water and ride a wave. But I can't

1:41.5

I can't have a like a Hollywood production crew out there. I need I need skate filmers that are

1:45.7

used to any situation security getting kicked out and just getting it. And we went out there and

1:52.0

treated it as if it was a skate session and it was an amazing experience. Did you get off the

1:56.5

phone? Like you want me to film what? No, you know, I was the fuck you talking about. When he asked

2:01.3

us, I actually, I didn't think it was going to happen. Okay. And then when I met Robbie Madison,

2:06.8

the guy, his work ethic was so incredible that I was like, okay, he's going to pull it. This is

2:11.7

going to happen because this guy's going to make it happen. So you guys just barged that. It was a

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