#249 - Alex Sorgente

The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Chris Roberts

Sports, Society & Culture, Leisure, Hobbies

4.9 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Alex Sorgente discusses getting sponsored at a very young age, getting known through the contest circuit, skating a water park in Dubai & skydiving, what happened with Plan B, his first part getting deleted from Thrasher, why he stopped skating the mega, Nyah Huston asking him to ride for Disorder Skateboards, filming for his new Red Bull part “Vero Amore” 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 have a very special
0:07.0	special
0:09.0	special guest Mr. Alex Sorgente is with us. Hey, thank you guys. Dude. Thank you so much for coming. Dude. How you doing?
0:16.2	Pretty good pretty good. Yeah, it's been cruising. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Actually just flew in from Rio
0:23.7	Oh, there's like the contest was out there. Yeah, there was like this big event. It's called the like S to you
0:30.2	Uh-huh, and yeah, I was really got in like two days ago flew straight in okay, and then
0:36.4	Yeah jet lagged. Yeah, pretty tired, but I'm alright. You're doing good. I hit that red bull
0:45.6	So real that's what have you been there before? Yeah, yeah, I've actually been to Brazil many times the first time when out there is actually
0:52.3	I was 14 years old and Pedro Barros
0:57.0	lives in this like island called Florinopolis and basically they were having this big amateur event and I met and I met them at
1:04.6	the Florida bull riders like over the on Florida and
1:08.4	They're like, oh, we're gonna have this big amateur and we love it for you to come out and
1:12.1	Yeah, so the first one there was a 14 years old to this amateur contest and it was sick was really at this bowl that red
1:18.1	Bull don't know if you've ever seen it at the at this hotel. Yeah, it was so cool like it's still there. Yeah, it's still there
1:23.8	It's out of hotel like really close to the beach at in Florinopolis. That's damn really cool area
1:28.7	See how you doing the contest. I don't know. I think I might have did pretty good. I think got on the podium
1:35.0	Okay, yeah, it was cool. It's a bunch of like low cobras like guys. They were just really stoked on when we met in Florida at
1:40.7	The Florida bull riders, so then they were like, oh, yeah, you got to come out and check it out and check out my area
1:45.6	Like they have like a crazy spread out over there. It's all just all about skateboarding and surfing like the whole culture
1:52.0	That's right. Yeah, it's really cool. You don't see that too much anymore. I mean in Barcelona
1:56.6	I feel like it's a skate culture. Yeah, they have a full skate culture
2:01.7	skateboarding was born here, you know Venice Beach
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