Bastien Salabanzi | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts - Episode 109

Bastien Salabanzi discusses growing up in Toulon France, starting skating at 9 years old, getting sponsored by 16 Skateboards, flying to California for the first time, filming for the Flip video “Sorry”, turning pro for Flip Skateboards, leaving his sponsors and returning to France, skating for Jart Skateboards, winning a spot in Street League, Paul Rodriguez asking him to ride for Primitive Skateboards and much more!
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Shot By: Eric Longden
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LINKS WE TALKED ABOUT:
Switchflip Switch Manny: bit.ly/youtube-switchflipswitc...
Bastien Salabanzi: The Lost Part: • Bastien Salabanzi: The...
Bastien Salabanzi - Sorry: • Bastien Salabanzi - Sorry
Bastien Salabanzi - Manolo's Tapes: • Bastien Salabanzi - Ma...
Bastien Salabanzi - Lordz - They don't give a fuck about us: • Video
Jart Skateboards - All you need - Bastien Salabanzi: • Jart Skateboards - All...
Bastien Salabanzi - Really Sorry: • Bastien Salabanzi - Re...
Tampa Pro 2004: Bastien Salabanzi: • Tampa Pro 2004: Bastie...
Bastien Salabanzi - Lordz Conspiracy: • Bastien Salabanzi - Lo...
Street League's Best of 2013: Bastien Salabanzi: • Street League's Best o...
BATB 6 MOOSE vs BASTIEN SALABANZI: • BATB 6 MOOSE vs BASTI...
Bastien Salabanzi Killing it!: • Bastien Salabanzi Kill...
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[@IDiggPattyMayonnaise]

flip was THE TEAM back in the day. Geoff, Tom, Arto, Rune, Pj, Ali, Bastien Mark. All the biggest hitters. The golden era to me. Those videos changed skateboarding.

[@MrSimondaniel3]

+ they tried to get Jeremy Wray !

[@toddWAZhere69]

let's go get some cokes

[@PapiAldoDiaz]

for real man

[@usernameser4934]

Flip still is the team..

[@mmike5890]

yeh they really dominate the game back then like they said overload when aprt came out i couldnt beleive what i was watching

[@TenThumbsProductions]

I just got back from Paris and it was full of young black men skating, thanks for the impact you had on skating over there Bastien! Legend.

[@oblockVseverybody]

Stephan Lawrence was first

[@croulantroulant3082]

True. But "Stéphane Larance"! and Jean Tongo before him. in any case the Paris area has a very big black population, and there were always black dudes skating. France is not segregated like the US and never has been.

[@Mike-zb4ds]

Best episode ever in my opinion. This guy has a good head on his shoulders

[@Bonabice]

i agree with you :P

[@timonotter3402]

Smart dude

[@filmbuff4]

Bastien is one of the G.O.A.Ts

[@coryander4918]

No question. I remember he used to have an etnies model that kind of looked like the accel, with the huge nose, dope shoe.

[@theman5221]

fuck yeah man

[@euminkong84]

@@coryander4918 accels was the janoskis of the late 90s early 2000s

[@SlicedBread1219]

FULL CAB FLIP GOD

[@mateoito8266]

Sliced Bread cab flip. A cab is already full and wholesome. When it isn’t then it s marked by the word half ;)

[@SlicedBread1219]

Ugh

[@pofty]

Get Kareem Campbell on the show!!!!!

[@dariusblue5946]

Good luck....wouldnt even do the epicly later'd Menace episode???

[@coryander4918]

@@dariusblue5946 what do you mean?

[@dariusblue5946]

They did an Epicly later'd on the Menace team had Pupecki, fabian, Lee smith all had interviews Kareem declined all requests for an i interview?????

[@mattm1660]

Just watched Bastiens "lost part". Gave me the chills. The hairs on my arms are standing up. Took me back to when I was 12 or 13 years old watching sorry for the first time. One of the best..

[@adamstevens6299]

I really didn’t think Bastien would be like this. Proper humble and a ridiculously sick skateboarder!

[@garethbright5674]

Bastien is pure class! He is so well spoken and positive! This is one of the best Nine Clubs yet!

[@JonnyZye]

Not to mention English isn't his native tongue, as a Frenchman. What a legend, gotta respect the bilingual talent!

[@avictor3594]

The switch flip manny revolving lamp!?!?!? omg

[@City2x]

I've always had mad respect for Bastien but this interview multiplied my respect for 10x. This was a very inspirational interview. What a stand-up dude.

[@mmike5890]

meet that guy in south of france was slightly younger than me he was not even famous yet. i would have never thought he would have get such a big part in the flip video it was truly amazing to see that. definitly one of the best back then

[@DuffmanOhNo]

So hyped for this. Bastien's part in Sorry was amazing. That video was huge amongst my friend group when it came out!

[@felden617]

It was! But the part he mentioned right in the first minutes "Lordz- they don't give a fuck about us" That Video is probably the best european Video til

[@xmisterblackhatx]

We used to meet up at my house after school and watch Menikmati or Sorry or Baker2g then go shred. The good ol' days.

[@DuffmanOhNo]

@@felden617 Agreed, it just made me reminisce about being a kid watching a vid & then skating all day.

[@DuffmanOhNo]

@@xmisterblackhatx Baker 2G was fire. The plan for the day was usually on the school bus looking at skate mags, video after school and then skate until it's late.

[@XelaHollow]

Yeah it was but shittt his footy from Tampa 2004...

[@tenfold2395]

One of the greatest to ever do it,100% timeless skateboarder that doesn’t need no complys and put on style

[@mosmith3026]

So kickflip pretzels are cool but no complys suck? Just bc he didn't put them in his parts doesn't mean he didn't do them. His parts were mostly bangers and not alot of lines or having fun. He's from the generation of hammers

[@drewtatasciore7086]

def filmed multiple lines...... even in sorry

[@mosmith3026]

@@drewtatasciore7086 yeah but they're all no nonsense lines. Like a trick before a handrail not him just goofing off on the board. Outside of the kickflip pretzel it's all business. No slo-mo, no dork tricks. I'm just saying in 99-00 people didn't have wallrides, no complies or polejams in parts like they do now but it doesn't mean they didn't do them it just want cool at the time to show them in parts

[@theman5221]

yep

[@heroicsquirrel3195]

@@mosmith3026 he was definitely having fun, gnarly stuff is fun aswell

[@nicholasfarris7744]

Bastien is one of the greatest of all time, and hearing him speak just reinforces that. He’s so down to earth and has such a good perspective on everything. This is one of the best episodes ever

[@reefchiefer]

He was like 'psheww' I got this, and then he hit the ground like potato bag

[@ceegee9425]

I named my son after this guy. Huge fan!

[@TheMyronStube]

Omg finally he’s so under rated no one gives him his dews this dude was doing the tricks people do nowadays like 15 years ago

[@MTLJungleBeast]

"They don't give a fuck about us ! " dvd in background. Wowww the Nine Club squad knows how to retrieve some good artefact from the past !

[@chriswould]

So many parts of this made me smile. Love his honesty and the history. Thank you, Nine Club . Questions were on point. I saw him compete at one of those big Euro contests just after the Sorry video release and at that point in time, he was unstoppable. Early to mid 2000's, he was the best contest skater in the world. It's weird to be proud of someone you don't really know, but I am of this dude. Such a ruler. All the best for the future Bastien. Always hyped to see something from you.

[@imakrewitatl]

Chris Wood yo are you the Chris Wood from Volcom Let's Live??

[@chriswould]

Yeeeep, that's me.

[@imakrewitatl]

Chris Wood i just watched that vid again a few weeks ago, yer part is sick man so solid. 👊🏻

[@chriswould]

Thank you brother!

[@imakrewitatl]

Chris Wood my pleasure entirely bro, do you still get to hang with aussie crew? Jake, Chima, Shane Azar and those boys? That video made me wanna ditch it all and fly to australia haha

[@jamalydude]

Love that he talked about his board size, 9club ask everyone their current board size and pst board size, we all are interested!!!

[@justinm.6327]

Bastien is so chill. All time fav

[@AndreLeoMusic]

'Little Wayne... Oh' Brilliant.

[@BolermieWorldwide]

Ohh man this was on of these episodes you HOPED for but never came and then, BOOM...BASTIEN!!!

[@shogekimura]

love how down to earth and humble Bastien is.

[@lolokdor]

Merci pour ce spécial guest ! Bastien Salabanzi 🇫🇷 :) next Nine Club Eric Koston !

[@Baseyjones314]

one of the most inspirational episodes love you guys please dont stop guys

[@microchrist6122]

Get the GEOFF! This was amazing, I love French mentality and life approach.

[@coryander4918]

Is here anybody named Jeff? Jeff: yes Geoff: yeos

[@Derpalurp69]

Starting my week of SOOOO good with this episode. Love bastien. Love his story. Love how he didn't disappear, wasn't on drugs. Just wanted to get home for a while. Such an amazing human! I need a nine club hoodie after this episode!

[@daltonpickett7623]

Bastien talks about skating in a way like no other skater. True passion. Had a big goofy smile on my face this whole episode.

[@bearhughes7009]

I remember Bastien having a b/s smith on marble ledge in Thrasher? over 20+ yrs ago.... Legend

[@bak1386]

Bastien is 1 of my all time faves. Sorry and Really Sorry are so legendary, so ahead of the time

[@santiagoluraschi]

This is the best interview I have seen in years, and I saw it 2 years late. Thank you guys!

[@PapiAldoDiaz]

watched sorry religiously everyday as a kid. the way they portrayed skate culture to me back then is what i still hold on to today when i think about it. fuckin best times of my life

[@nestorzen]

Bastien seems like a dude you can trust with everything, what a rad dude

[@icepick859]

Best era of skating. 199-2006ish. Would love to see the other flip guys arto, Geoff, Ali, Tom penny. That video and team was HUGE back then. Best videos. Sorry, yeah right, this is skateboarding. The styles back then we're so much better. I'm glad I got to skate back then and am not one of these new kids that only know how skating is today. That's all they know

[@jessejessee5503]

Bastien Salabanzi! (Johnny Rotten voice)

[@gojira8249]

Bastion... BAAAAASTIONNN

[@s4toristar]

i'm glad i wasn't the only one who slept with his first skateboard 🙏 #firstlove🖤

[@youdontknowwme2293]

I absolutely killed it on every board i slept with.

[@user-ik4rz7bs2c]

He’s so humble for who he is in skateboarding

[@antekulusic8401]

One of the best episodes so far. So doped that I started skating in the era when Sorry, DC, This is skateboarding, Yeah Right and etc. Came out. Dude, that Flip team was the sickest!

[@Floridamanzt]

I rode his board multiple times loved him and the flip team then

[@mrsein]

Quelle belle surprise! Merci le Nine Club!

[@minifreedom]

Nine club with some premium ramen, nothing better to top off monday night. Legendary Human being.

[@nateperaccini8912]

THAT LAMP!!! I am glad Bastien discussed the Quicksliver contest. Great episode!

[@olivierbideau3054]

So glad he's back! Merci nine club for this episode !

[@TheWavetwister]

Loving the rotating lampshade!

[@tjsparks100]

This was one of my favorite episodes thus far. Keep em' coming dudes!

[@chrismiramontes3379]

Wish you’d talk about his injury

[@osbaldofernanez8359]

Should of done that fat Albert intro

[@vertsk8er419]

haha has he done that?

[@rezmetalpodcaster]

vertsk8er419 last week on the experience episode

[@IntergalacticMath]

Yesss

[@georgemcnaughton8238]

That shit was hilarious

[@PapiAldoDiaz]

dude that shit has me DEAD fuckin chris is wild lmao

[@thomasbergersen8633]

one of the best ones so far. Thank you guys.

[@FrankieScavone]

Love this dudes style so much! One of the best. Great stuff Nine Club.

[@AllanAlfante]

thank you Nine Club! Greetings from Dubai!

[@nickwagner4679]

Alright. That's what's up. Stoked to hear this. Dudes been one of favorites since the Flip days. First pro model shoe was the Salabanzi Vans

[@jimi88]

Nick Wagner that was my first pro shoe also.

[@cookingwitcalvin]

Favorite skater since I was 11. So stoked that you put him on here

[@jarsh_]

first, was fully hoping/expecting a fat albert intro. second, bastiens part in sorry really had an influence on me. he does a kick flip nose grind back 180 on a table i think.. just how fun and good he made it look, ill never forget it.

[@demskyesdead]

This has been a huge inspiration. Always loved this guys skating and now a fan of his mentality.

[@Mogely]

So happy to hear what he had to say about his knee process very informative 🙏🏻 Looking forward to what he brings us!

[@flock1003]

that penny story with the kickflip was amazing !

[@DaRealLodiDodi]

Man! congrats on the insightful interview! i really had my fingers crossed for this interview! keep up the good work fellas! *fistbump

[@fromrusmusic]

I was waiting for Bastien more then anybody! He is the Man! Great interview, great news!

[@lodisfootwear3019]

Great Interview guys! Really Had my fingers crossed for this interview to happen soon. keep up the good work fellas! *fistbump

[@leemiera84]

love these podcasts. Being able to pause go back and watch the actual contest or video parts he talks and then come back to the podcast makes this very enjoyable. reliving my teen years.

[@YboTs13]

Hell yeah his part in Really sorry was amazing. Definitely one of my favorite skaters!

[@dantheman419]

Best nine club yet, Bastien so humble and down to earth. 💯

[@wutheillest7772]

Yes! Thank you guys for having Bastien, true legend!!

[@retrosmodernlife8705]

So sick to have a Bastien ep, I've been waiting for this since I started watching the club! Awesome story of his career & great to hear it from him & not just rumors. Another great ep, you guys killed it as always. All love to the club!

[@josemariapradaarnedo4315]

The amount of gems this interview gave only makes me want to see a 2nd part please!!

[@themoog924]

Brilliant interview, thanks guys!

[@ArtHansenProject]

One of the Best episodes yet ! Bastien is just the kindest person and an amazing skateboarder ! So hyped to more of him in the future. Flip sorry, really set the mind of skateboarding for me

[@armkidmustang]

Had to replay the part where he was talking about mentality, it's so useful

[@kruzti]

At last!!! Thank you so much! Such a bastien fan!

[@MilkSteak23]

57:00 Stevie Ray Vaughan "Little Wing"...."Oh Lil' Wayne?" haha I hope you're joking Crob.

[@DFunct905]

MilkSteak23 that would be even funnier if it was serious.

[@ShogunateDaimyo]

I'm pretty sure they did think lil Wayne..

[@majorwoody1az1]

Bastien is such a great guy thank you guys for doing this interview enjoyed the whole thing while at work 🤘🏻

[@ItsMeGreg86]

Damn. That was the best episode. Bastien was my favorite skater growing up, and I definitely had several pairs of his vans. After this I am so stoked for him! He is such a well spoken and inspirational guy. I loved hearing his process of dealing with negativity, focus and setting goals as well. Living legend for sure! I can’t wait to see more from him. 🙏

[@pabloenrikay]

What a great, great interview... thank you for this.

[@typ044]

One of the best 9 club interviews ever, Bastien is the man !

[@chestercheetah21]

Good job guys, love the show. Nice and Smooth conversation 👍🏽

[@maxclaret]

Had to watch after his recent part drop. Wow, what a legend, such a great interview!

[@rubertuhd]

a couple of minutes into this podcast and I can say that you can sense when the invited people are really open or not. Bastien seems to be part of these guys who just have somewhat of an aura of openness around them. MUCH RESPECT for everyone making this podcast.

[@Hawks1915]

Hands down one of my favorite episodes.

[@nanceydrew5932]

Bastien! From my favorite skate team of all time. Thank you 9 club.

[@espaciofantazma901]

Legend. I remember seeing Sorry and I felt like giving up. Used to watch Bastien's part every day, getting super amped up from the music. Man, it was the coolest video part ever made to me, back then. Love you Bastien! Thank you so much for your hard work.

[@MrTetedefouine]

One of a the best episode ! Thnx guys good energy right here !

[@timcamilleri1964]

One of the best episodes so far.

[@bittmanbobby]

One of favorite and one of the best Skaters of all time. Bastien was ahead of his time! His Flip parts still hold up, Legend

[@tysonrinker5958]

I remembered when Sorry came out. It was one of , if not the biggest skate video at that time. Johnny Rotten announcing the skaters, classic. Everybody I knew watched that video religiously before skating, and Really Sorry. Bastiens part was right up there with every big pro during that time.

[@jbtownsend9535]

What a great episode. Really inspiring.

[@TnJ_Adventures]

Hell yea. Keep up the hard work boys

[@trez337]

Woah, one of my favourite nine club. Super well spoken. Continue à inspirer Bastien!

[@swedishmailman]

Such a great episode. Bastien is super well spoken and just seems like a good dude.

[@donzmeuheu6153]

Bastien...the Goat🐐

[@AndresRodriguez-yq5iz]

Bravo Bastien ! Inspiring interview. Thanks bro !

[@TheSkaterWieger]

This was such a great episode!! We need more Europe legends on here

[@ddesouz6]

One of my favorite interviews!

[@hynekkkk]

Bastien is LEGEND. inspiring talk. thanks heaps guys

[@stilluminati9716]

He was 15 and ripping before most pro's like p rod ! He was my Hero

[@charlesortloff7338]

Saw the guest and gave a thumbs up no problem

[@MrFaknuts]

Bastian was and is my all time favorite skater 🔥🔥🔥

[@batessdd]

Awesome interview! Bastien is a living legend and a equal pleasure to listen to as to watch skate :)

[@voodustyle]

hell yeaaah bastien. hope y'all get austyn gillette on here soon.