#302 - Arto Saari

The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Chris Roberts

Sports, Society & Culture, Leisure, Hobbies

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🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 163 minutes

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Arto Saari discusses growing up in Finland, skating in the Europe contests for the first time, getting on Flip Skateboards, skating with Geoff Rowley during the filming of Flip video "Sorry”, working on Transworld's “Feedback” video with Ty Evans, front boarding El Toro, why he left Flip for Alien Workshop, filming for the Alien Workshop video “Mind Field”, returning to Flip, having a heart condition & getting surgery, why he went from eS to Etnies, building a pool with Lance Mountain in his backyard, the new Arto eS shoe and much more! Timestamps 00:00:00 Arto Saari 00:00:44 Living in Hawaii 00:09:57 Growing up in Finland 00:13:50 How Arto got discovered 00:14:52 Our Supporter: AG1 00:16:27 Knowing he was good and doing the Europe contests for the first time 00:24:13 Leaving school for skating 00:27:27 Getting on Flip skateboards 00:32:34 Skating with Geoff Rowley during the filming of Flip video "Sorry" 00:33:50 Arto's 411 Wheels Of Fortune 00:38:02 Working on Transworld's "Feedback" video 00:42:34 Filming with Ty Evans 00:48:03 Filming for the eS video "Menikmati" 00:52:22 The El Toro front board 00:57:43 Filming for the Flip video "Sorry" 01:03:01 Choosing music for his parts 01:05:00 Leaving Flip for Alien Workshop and filming for "Mind Field" 01:11:09 Returning to Flip after Alien Workshop 01:17:21 Getting synthetic ligaments in his knee 01:18:45 Having a heart condition 01:21:57 SOTY (Skater Of The Year) 01:25:57 When the money comes 01:32:10 Arto's own brand? 01:33:17 Getting into photography 01:43:15 Milkin' it 01:49:35 Building a pool in his backyard 02:04:04 The new Arto eS shoe 02:11:52 Tom Penny storys 02:18:12 Why Arto went from eS to Etnies 02:27:53 What's Arto up to now Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We ready to go Arto, you good?
0:01.6	I took my watch off so it doesn't tell me my heart rate.
0:04.8	Oh, right, we are back, huh? We're back at the 9 club everybody.
0:12.3	Today we have a very special
0:16.8	special special
0:20.0	special guest mr.to Sari is with us.
0:25.0	How are you dude?
0:26.0	He just pulled a shocker right into the mic man.
0:30.0	Yeah.
0:32.0	Yeah. Yeah. Like, man.
0:34.0	We know he's good. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:35.0	Yeah, yeah, dude.
0:37.0	You have Art so, thanks for coming me.
0:38.0	You've just embraced the Hawaiian, I mean, you just blew, I don't even know how,
0:41.0	you just blew the shaka right into the right into the atmosphere.
0:44.5	Yeah I feel like I'm starting to catch on you know starting to
0:47.9	submerge into the community and you know slowly trying to become part of the reef over there.
0:55.0	How long have you been out there so far?
0:58.0	It's been six years.
0:59.0	Six years?
1:00.0	Okay.
1:01.0	But it's like you were just talking to us beforehand and we're talking about Hawaii by the way if you don't know where he lives but you said you live kind of in the countryside or something is it you're like out of the city kind of on you have a piece of land out there what's going on yeah I have a little
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