that was sick
I bet he takes some gnarly slams
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Just peripheral vision, depth and everything like that is fine 
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Thereās was some guy years back who had an interview in Sidewalk - he only had 1 working eye. Canāt remember his name but his photos were good if I remember (this was like 18 years ago or something). South African maybe?
yeah I remember the dude, kristi or christie or something I think his name was
There was that emerica kid sheldon melishenski or some thing like that. Skated with an eye patch
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Christie Wiehahn? Main guy in Cape Town at the time I think and was on Zero flow at one point.
Clint Van Der Schyf? Skated for Panic around 99/2000?
Yeah thatās the dude
Iām sure there was someone else earlier on, back in the RAD days, had an interview. Remember thinking he likely has the same issue as me but still rips - Iām thinking around the time of the really small video sequences/BPSW era.
I think I recognise that dude, he made a fucking fortune with NFTs
When I saw on Slap that the guest was to be Gary Vee I assumed it was Gary Valentine (Dwindle/Globe) and there were to be some amusing stories of him and Jason Ellis and the like. But no. A quick Google and it turns out itās this tit.
Maybe thatās the only person they could find who didnāt see the Oblow episode, doesnāt go on Slap, and doesnāt have Instagram?
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Complete grifter.
The Nine Club should take a break, line up some actually interesting guests, and do seasons/more sporadic interviews. Theyāre clearly scraping the barrel now and it might be useful to let the dust settle on the Oblow thing.
Wonāt bother with that one then
Donāt know what this means but would the āonline hatersā be the people who called out Chris Roberts for being one of the most clueless, useless idiots in the world of skateboard media following the Oblow episode?
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But the business model isnāt there if the business isnāt there, right? Track and field athletes at the top of their game representing their country still need things like lottery funding. Skateboarders are putting out their content for free these days, where as before youād have had to pay good money for a video to see them. That might be a big problem no-one is discussing? The NBA, NFL or Football clubs arenāt giving away their games to watch for freeā¦ if contests really mattered within skating, like most sports that might be a different story, skating is so much more harder to market to Joe Public, because what are you marketing, why and to whom?
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I saw Gary Vaynerchuck years ago at some marketing industry event. He was an interesting speaker as I remember. Donāt really want to have him shoehorned into skate media though.
Does he talk about marketing skateboarding specifically?
I might give it a listen but I found the one they did with some comedian to be horrible. He had really contrived and out of touch skateboarding stories.
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I tried to listen to this but gave up after about 3 minutes. This Gary dude seemed horrible.
Thereās been good episodes recently (Jimmy Wilkins, Madars, Dan Mancina). I quite liked those.
I listened to it yesterday and the guy is on constand send! I was trying to work out why he was on the show and Iām fed up with the sponsored ads and Crobs voice going on about athletic greens
They even had an ad for a nutsack hair trimmer or something for a while.
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Do they really run cariuma ads?
I canāt bring myself to watch it and canāt work out if thatās a joke or not
