The Nine Club #324 · Show notes.
Chad Knight
About this episode
Chad Knight discusses growing up in Ohio, getting sponsored by H-Street at 13 years old, Alf & Eric Koston staying at his house when he was 14, making the move to San Diego, getting on Maple Skateboards, designing his first Osiris pro shoe, filming for "The Storm", how the industry perceived Osiris & the skaters, switch backside flipping the Sand Diego Sports Arena double set, Jeff Taylor getting him an interview to do 3D design at DC Shoes, working for Nike & how 3D inspiration pieces are used to inspirer designers at Nike, his 3D art & the rise and fall of NFT's, how he got to compete in American Gladiator and much more!
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The guest
Chad Knight
Chad Knight grew up in Ohio and skated for H-Street, Maple and Osiris. He later worked in 3D footwear design and developed his own digital art.
Chapters
- Chad Knight
- Getting right into Osiris "The Storm" video
- Perception of the industry on San Diego skaters
- Did he notice that Osiris was getting big
- First pro model shoe with Osiris
- Dave Mayhew was probably up late designing his shoe
- How much were the shoe royalty checks for
- Did team riders discuss contracts with each other
- Our Sponsor: Woodward
- Grew up in Ohio & got sponsored by H-Street
- Alf & Eric Koston staying at his house when he was 13 years old
- His sponsor me footage had him wrestling on it
- Getting on Maple Skateboards
- Switch backside flip Sand Diego Sports Arena double set
- Josh Kasper's ollie over a gap & a DJ
- The dark years - got hurt - broke his leg
- Getting into shoe design
- Jeff Taylor got him an interview at DC Shoes
- Left DC and worked for Vans
- Opportunity to work for Nike came up
- How 3D inspiration pieces are used to inspirer designers at Nike
- His 3D art and the rise and fall of NFT's
- Our Sponsor AG1
- How he got to compete in American Gladiator
- Was his trick on a handrail an NBD at the time?
- How he almost lost his eye
Links
Talked about in this episode
Videos / Articles
Chad Knight — 1031 Turn Up The Hell2008 · Kristian Svitak
Chad Knight — Maple Seven Steps To Heaven1996 · Chris Tavares · Verified archive upload
Chad Knight — Osiris The Storm1999 · drsbaitso0 · Verified archive upload
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