#183 - Neal Mims

The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Chris Roberts

Hobbies, Leisure, Sports, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 17 February 2020

⏱️ 191 minutes

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Neal Mims discusses growing up in Jacksonville FL, looking up to Caine Gayle, having part of his calf muscle amputated, drinking at a young age, coming to California for the first time and skating with Jeremy Wray, getting on Platinum Skateboards, leaving Platinum to skate for Deca Skateboards, filming for the Transworld video “Feedback”, still drinking, skating for World Industries, finding out he had an 8 year old daughter back in Florida, driving a Taxi Cab, getting sober after asking a friend for help, starting the Neal Mims skate Academy, being a coach/mentor for some team USA skaters 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,
0:12.0	special guest, Neil Mims is with us. How are you, bro? I'm good. I feel like I may have
0:24.0	got a little more specials for other people, but that's three is the, is the, is the
0:34.0	northern, but then either, but then Sir Raj or something, the guest even wants more specials, you know,
0:40.0	yeah, throws my whole game off, you know. I'm good. I'm good. I'm thankful to be here. Special,
0:44.9	special. It's damn millennials. Special. Hey. What's going on, man? How are you doing? I'm doing great.
0:54.0	Yeah. Yeah, life is good. Life is good, bro. You got a lot of things going on and we'll get, we'll
1:00.6	get into the whole skate academy. That's amazing. The Neil Mims skate academy, which I'm super
1:06.6	interested in, but we'll get into that later. Like seeing classes. Yeah, it sounded like some like classes.
1:12.6	Oh, classes. Oh, yeah. I could maybe teach you how to switch lip manual. What about like a lip slide down a
1:20.6	rail? That's too basic for you. To be okay. Okay. What about your head on the ground really hard. I can teach
1:26.6	everybody how to do that. That's easy. I just don't get on a 50-50 properly and make sure that
1:36.6	there's a lot of stairs. Go to the bar first and have a couple of Guinnesses and then you're
1:42.6	finding the biggest rail around the corner with the crack in front of it, with people walking everywhere,
1:46.6	and then just go for it. Was that the, that was the deal? That was the deal behind that. Listen, a couple
1:54.6	Guinnesses could get you nice. I thought I had that shit. Wait, did you have an idea you wanted
2:02.6	to skate that rail beforehand or just found it like that? So we were already skating down the street.
2:06.6	It was the Route 66 store. There was some awesome dudes on that tour. Ty Evans and was the
2:12.6	filmer. And Jody Morris was shooting photos. He drove us the whole time, but Danny Montoya. Oh, sick. Duffy was on that trip.
2:18.6	Chris Lambert, Pachanita. Yeah, I was a heavy crew, which is really, really, oh, Jonas Ray.
2:26.6	Jonas Ray? Richard Angelidis. It was really, really fun. Yeah, I was tripping on that because you had
2:34.6	a part in feedback, transworld. But that slam wasn't in feedback. It was in the reason or something, right?
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