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The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

#162 - Bob Burnquist

The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Chris Roberts

Hobbies, Leisure, Sports, Society & Culture

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2019

⏱️ 233 minutes

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Summary

Bob Burnquist discusses growing up in São Paulo Brazil, turning pro for Urgh Skateboards at age 14, going to San Fransisco and getting on Real then Anti Hero, skating in the X-Games, leaving Anti Hero for The Firm, filming for “Menikmati”, getting Rodrigo TX on the Firm and Es Footwear, trying to loop the Mt. Baldy full pipe, how the mega ramp came to be, Filming for Flip’s “Extremely Sorry” winning 14 X-Games gold medals in 22 years, doing the loop switch with no roof, his Dreamland backyard park, skating into the Grand Canyon, his companies Burnkit and Farmaleaf, Retiring from the X-Games 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.

0:08.7

Oh, we got a special, special, special guest. Mr. Bob Bernquist.

0:18.5

What's up? Welcome. Yes.

0:21.8

Superb. Finally in the nine club. Yes. You made it.

0:26.0

I don't know if the X Games has that's going, but you know, you made it.

0:30.2

Haven't gotten that one. No, first time for everything. That's right.

0:34.4

You know, after how many years, 22, something years in the X Games or something,

0:38.7

something like that. 95, I don't know. 95 to 2000. And what'd you retire?

0:44.1

You said, well, I said my retire. I can always, you know, it's, it's really,

0:48.1

it was really a point of like doing the same thing over and over that I got tired about.

0:52.4

Right. It's like, it's like, here's the ramp. Is the same. There's that trick.

0:55.3

It changed the format, changed ramp design. I can get interested. There's things,

0:58.8

you know, that's that's really what that was.

1:01.2

But how much of a design change can that thing take, though?

1:05.2

I mean, what are we talking about? Do you think? I don't know. I don't watch all the X Games.

1:08.9

But do they do the rainbow rail or the manual pad or is it just air?

1:12.1

So they did in the past and and listen, the other thing is to it's just,

1:17.2

it's such, it's so high risk. It's like, I mean, at one point, I'm like,

1:22.0

is it really worth, you know, all those, they're breaking my face, breaking my mind,

1:27.5

like that. That's like, I've done that.

1:29.9

You know, and and and push through them and push through so many injuries.

1:34.4

Then it's the point where it's like, well, if this happens again,

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