#304 - Amelia Brodka

The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Chris Roberts

Sports, Society & Culture, Leisure, Hobbies

4.9 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 135 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Amelia Brodka discusses coming to the US from Poland when she was 8 years old, started skating at age 12, Jim Gray sponsoring her for Scarecrow Skateboards, turning pro for Arbor, founded Exposure skate in 2012 after making a documentary about women’s skateboarding called “Underexposed”, first place in the 2017 & 2018 European Park Championships, representing Poland in the Olympics for woman’s park, her now husband Alec Beck proposing to her at the Vans Combi pool during live broadcast and much more! Timestamps 00:00:00 Amelia Brodka 00:02:27 The Exposure skate events 00:05:29 Coming from Poland to the us 00:13:19 Our Supporter: AG1 00:14:54 Finding skateboarding 00:18:30 The exclusivity of skateboarding in the early 2000's 00:21:33 The first skate video Amelia saw 00:23:28 How she got into skating vert 00:32:25 The getting sponsored thing 00:36:04 Making it out to California 00:41:06 Meeting her future husband and being proposed to at the Vans Combi pool 00:45:28 Shout out Amelia's husband Alec Beck 00:47:30 Hiring her husband as her coach so he could go along to the Olympics 00:50:05 Opening the Olympic pandoras box 01:10:28 The women's Exposure skate events 01:43:57 The Exposure x Etnies colorway shoe 01:49:53 How Amelia got on Etnies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I'm like oh cool summer vacation in America like I'm gonna live in a jungle I'm gonna have a giant
0:05.2	what I have no idea why I love this okay I thought I'm gonna have a parrot like like a pirate
0:12.0	I have no idea.
0:13.2	Oh right, we are back, huh?
0:16.2	We're back at the 9 club everybody today. We have a very special.
0:21.0	Special. Special guest Amelia Brokka is with us.
0:25.0	Did I say that right Brokka or Brodka?
0:31.0	Brodka's good.
0:32.0	Okay. Like in Polish it's Brotka is good okay like in Polish it's brotka oh let me say it the right way
0:36.7	Amelia brotka wow you can roll your I can roll my arms you're trying show off. We want to do like a extended like Amelia like you like you're going to like you're coming into the stadium.
0:50.0	Amelia Brutka!
0:55.0	Few rolls right there. That was good.
0:57.0	We get at this sometimes.
0:58.0	There you go.
0:59.0	You should do like the live announcing.
1:00.0	I should.
1:01.0	The master of ceremonies.
1:02.0	I should. The problem is is I I get I do get people's names wrong all the
1:06.9	I've got a problem he's not wrong about that
1:16.4	Sometimes they are not pronounced how they are spelled. Totally can empathize with that and then there's people who there's a proper way to
1:20.9	pronounce their last name but they don't even
1:23.7	pronounce they don't even use that they just use the normal whatever anybody
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Chris Roberts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Chris Roberts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.