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The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

#155 - Steve Caballero

The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Chris Roberts

Hobbies, Leisure, Sports, Society & Culture

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2019

⏱️ 217 minutes

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Summary

Steve Caballero discusses growing up in San Jose CA, getting on Powell Peralta at 15 years old, skating in the Amateur contest circuit, his band “The Faction”, being born with Scoliosis, turning pro, selling 250,000 boards in one year, getting on Vans, designing his signature shoe the “Caballero” aka “The Full Cab”, almost quitting Powell Peralta a few times, inventing the fakie ollie 360 also known as the ’Caballerial', the iconic Half Cab shoe, street Cab, being asked to be in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater video game, breaking his femur during a motocross jump, his artwork 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 nine club everybody today. We got a special

0:08.7

special special guest, Mr. Steve Keblero. Hey guys. Hey, dude, thanks so much for coming.

0:19.8

This is a travel to honor. It's a privilege. It's everything.

0:24.8

I was wondering when you guys are going to give me the call. I'm like, I'm like, cool, that

0:33.2

guy's on it. He's on it. Like, I'm going to want to call me. Am I not cool enough?

0:39.3

I'm telling you, when I hit that send button, I was trembling. I don't know if he's going

0:44.8

to respond. Does he even check his DMs? I don't know. How are you doing? I'm doing good.

0:51.5

It could be better. Yes. Yes. Yes. My femur a little over a month ago. Riding some dirt

0:57.5

bikes. Made a little mistake. I'm paying for it. You ride dirt bikes. You jump. What

1:02.9

mistake did you make? You went over the top of the handlebars, right? I did. I endowed

1:08.5

and flipped over the bars. There was nothing I could save it with. I mean, I've been

1:14.2

riding for a while. I know what can go wrong. But I was riding fast. That's the whole deal.

1:23.3

When you're riding dirt bikes, you want to go faster. You want to jump bigger. It's like

1:28.2

skating. You want to do things bigger, longer. I have the same mentality with dirt bikes.

1:35.8

I love dirt bikes a lot because it reminds me of skating. It does. You get to the certain

1:41.4

level where the bike ends up becoming like one with you. And then things start to be

1:47.9

turned to be easier. I could imagine it starting off like you're riding this big machine, this

1:53.2

big beast. And then slowly it just becomes normal. Why start normal? The smaller machines

1:58.8

for you. I would come my way up. So now I'm up to the biggest machine and that's a

2:03.8

Kauai 450. Now when you're going off these jumps, you don't have a speedometer. Right?

2:08.1

Yes. How fast are you going now? Don't really know. But I was going faster than I should have.

2:14.1

Oh, seriously? And there was a section that was there was three jumps. There's a triple step up

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