#306 - Willy Santos

The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Chris Roberts

Sports, Society & Culture, Leisure, Hobbies

4.9 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2023

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

Willy Santos discusses the early days skating contests, getting sponsored by G&S, almost getting recruited by the World Industries camp, choosing to skate for Tony Hawk over Rocco, filming for the Birdhouse videos "Feasters" & “Ravers”, skating for Duffs then getting on Vans, designing multiple pro shoes for Vans, why he ultimately left Birdhouse, starting Willy’s Workshop, hangin with Jeremy Klein and much more! Timestamps 00:00:00 Willy Santos 00:02:20 Born in the Philippines 00:05:48 The start of Willy's skateboard journey 00:12:22 Willy's early inspiration 00:14;:25 Our Supporter: AG1 00:16:01 Willy the contest skater 00:18:18 Almost getting recruited by the World Industries camp 00:19:34 Tony Hawk buying Willy's left over G&S boards and screening Birdhouse graphics over them 00:21:04 Choosing Tony Hawk over Rocco 00:23:01 Why didn't Willy go with Rocco? 00:29:24 Turning pro for & 00:35:00 Why Willy left Birdhouse 00:39:25 Filming for the Birdhouse video "Feasters" 00:45:04 Getting on Vans 00:45: 31 Skating for Duffs 00:47:36 The Birdhouse video "Ravers" 00:49:29 Kelly sent fan mail to Birdhouse 00:52:15 Jeremy Klein and Hook-Ups 01:01:57 The g&s "Stun" video 01:03:54 The Union Wheels "Right To Skate" video 01:06:07 The Transwrold video "Uno" 01:09:35 Birdhouse "The End" 01:16:06 Jeremy and Heath's part in "The End" 01:20:48 The bullring 01:23:58 Willy the skate coach 01:27:00 Willy's Workshop 01:37:13 Using Beatles songs in a skate video 01:39:52 How often does Willy skate these days 01:43:17 Still wearin' Vans 01:53:01 Goin' to Hooters with Jeremy Klein 01:54:10 Who was Willy's roomie on tours 01:57:50 Cold calling Jeremy Klein Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	One of my favorite skaters was Willie Santos and he was talking to me.
0:04.8	Yeah and he was like this graphics I'm like yeah that was my board and the guy just like
0:09.6	My board. What? Yeah, yeah.
0:11.2	Willie's coming in like a damn pool shark.
0:13.4	All right.
0:14.8	Well, we are back, huh?
0:16.8	We're back at the Nine Club, everybody.
0:18.3	Today, we have a very special.
0:24.4	Special. We have a very special special
0:28.2	special special guest mr willy Santos is with us how are you you? Hey, thank you. Wow. Happy to be here. I'll turn this off now.
0:36.1	Okay. You're the first person never do that. I think somebody else filmed me. No, somebody else did it.
0:40.5	Yeah, he's a couple people. Maybe, maybe one, maybe once before.
0:43.6	Maybe who did Raj?
0:44.6	I remember someone doing it.
0:46.0	Somebody did it.
0:47.0	Should I take the headphones off?
0:48.0	No.
0:49.0	No, no, no, no, no, no.
0:50.0	Just kidding.
0:51.0	Yeah, we're doing a podcast folks.
0:55.0	Thank you so much, Willie Santos,
0:57.0	for coming in and hanging out with us.
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