#234 - Kanten Russell

The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Chris Roberts

Sports, Society & Culture, Leisure, Hobbies

4.9 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ 205 minutes

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Kanten Russell discusses growing up in Southern California, his first photo in Thrasher Magazine that later became a T-shirt, skating for BBC Skateboards, getting on Sims then Chapter 7 Skateboards, why he didn't get on Plan B Skateboards, starting Shaft with Oscar Jordan, shooting with Dan Stuart, turning down Tod Swank to ride for Foundation and getting on Voice Skateboards, meeting Peter Smolik for the first time, getting on Planet Earth Skateboards, filming for the Troubleshooters video, first pro Osiris shoe “The Defcon”, filming for the Osiris The Storm video, skatepark design for New Line Skateparks 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 today.
0:06.0	We have a very special... special.
0:10.8	Special guest, Mr. Ken Rosalas with us. Yes. How are you, dude?
0:16.3	Very good, my friend. Yes. Yeah, it's good to be here. Do a ramburgh.
0:19.5	Such a pleasure to have you, dude. I don't know if you watch our show, but I talk about you all the time.
0:24.9	We were big. You know what, inspiration. Yes. We were definitely skating the different obstacles.
0:30.7	You were getting down on your tech too, but you were...
0:33.6	You were... Chris had jumped. You were this... I mean, you were...
0:36.4	The one time that Chris jumped. It was a three-star, but it was pretty good.
0:40.6	That works. It was pretty good.
0:44.0	No, but I just admired like this, the way that you would just fly down these crazy gaps and overrails,
0:51.2	and I was just a big fan. I appreciate that. I appreciate you coming by.
0:55.5	It's going to be a big treat for me, talking about all this stuff. A cyrus storm.
1:00.0	You guys were celebrities, dude. Yeah.
1:02.8	Defcon. Yeah. The shoes. You know, all that stuff, man.
1:06.5	We had a lot of people I toured with, you know, the Jerry Seuss, the Mayhues, the little bees.
1:12.1	A lot of people we all rolled with a lot. You guys were literally on fire.
1:17.9	Yeah. That was storm came out. You guys were... I mean, you were RV bus...
1:22.3	Like tour buses. Literally. Yeah.
1:24.3	Yeah, people. Yeah.
1:26.7	Those are fun times though. Those like big tours.
1:29.1	You know, you remember those. You remember those. Yeah.
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