The Nine Club #289 · Show notes.
Clyde Singleton
About this episode
Clyde Singleton discusses growing up in Jacksonville Florida, going "pro" for Acme Skateboards, The Chronicles Of Piff Huxtable & Clydes Corner, impersonating John Montesi on the phone to get on Vision Street Wear, ruining Jamie Thomas' purple Planet Earth pants, meeting Natas and Gino and getting fully on 101, staying with Fabian Alomar, passing up the opportunity to ride for Menace, leaving 101 for Sal Barbier’s company 23, falling off a bridge in Prague & waking up in ICU, the beginning & end of Aesthetics, the move to Zoo York, his Minority Report video, going to culinary school, the return of Aesthetics, his podcast “WCRP on Skateboarding” and much more!
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The guest
Clyde Singleton
Clyde Singleton’s skate career includes Acme, World Industries and Aesthetics. He joins us to revisit those years and the people who shaped them.
Chapters
- Clyde Singleton
- Chris and Clyde were teammates on 4CE Footwear
- Clyde on Hawk vs Wolf podcast
- The return of Aesthetics
- Ride Or Die vol 1 (Clyde falling off a bridge in Prague)
- 20 Shot Sequence video
- Our Sponsor: Athletic Greens
- Going "pro" for Acme Skateboards
- Getting introduced to skateboarding
- Clyde accidentally learning everything switch when he first started skating
- Clyde's wooden trophy that looks like something else
- Black representation in skateboarding
- Clyde's personality off the board
- People getting mad at Clyde for being Clyde
- The Chronicles of Piff Huxtable
- Comparing the Zero Skateboards tours to the Insane Clown Posse
- Clyde's relationship with Jamie Thomas
- Getting hooked up by Vision
- Impersonating John Montesi to get on Vision Street Wear
- Getting on Formula 1 wheels
- Driving out to California
- Clyde ruined Jamie Thomas' purple Planet Earth pants
- The incident at EMB
- Getting caught skipping school
- Getting on 101
- Kareem taking Clyde under his wing
- Meeting Natas and Gino and getting fully on 101
- Filming for 20 Shot Sequence
- The World camp helping to mold Clyde's skate career
- Staying with Fabian Alomar
- Leaving 101 and starting 23 Skateboards with Sal Barbier
- Passing up the opportunity to ride for Menace
- Slamming Jason Dill's head in a car door
- The 23 tour
- What happened to 23
- The beginning of Aesthetics
- The end of Aesthetics and the move to Zoo York
- Clyde wanted to be the black guy on black label
- After Zoo York
- The party lifestyle
- Clyde's Minority Report video
- Going to culinary school
- Being a chef
- Sober Clyde
- Clyde on DC?
- Top stains and blank boards
- The problem with owning the company you skate for
- The current state of skateboard marketing
- When Sheffey was Sheffey
- The return of Aesthetics
- Going on tour with the world camp
- World park
- Clyde's podcast
Links
Talked about in this episode
The Skateboard Mag / Minority Report / Full Skate Video / 2005Jase S
Clyde Singleton - Ryde or DieRolexLuger
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Clyde Singleton - 20 Shot SequenceRolexLuger
Clyde Singleton, 'Untitled' Acme (1994)skateboardingisall
Videos / Articles
Clyde Singleton- Acme “Untitled”(1994)WCRPonSkateboardingClyde Singleton - Ryde or DieRolexLuger · Original part / film archiveClyde Singleton - 20 Shot SequenceRolexLuger · Original part / film archive
People mentioned
Selected names and timestamped moments checked against the episode’s English auto-generated captions.
Lance Conklin
Tommy Guerrero
Mike Carroll
Lance Mountain
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