Salman Agah | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts - Episode 265

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Salman Agah discusses growing up in San Jose, the "don’t tell Salman skate jam”, skating for Real Skateboards, pioneering switchstance, getting on Powell Peralta, going from Real to The Firm then to Black Label, winning SOTY in 1993, why he was never a video part guy, leaving Black Label & going back to Powell, opening Pizzanista & having locations around the world, inducted into the Skateboarding Hall Of Fame and much more!
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Timestamps
00:00:00 Salman Agah
00:01:11 Opening Pizzanista & having locations around the world
00:31:31 Growing up in San Jose & finding skateboarding
00:39:38 getting on Powell Peralta
00:47:29 his Early sponsors
00:50:29 Salman talent scouted Jeron!
00:56:37 The "don't tell Salman skate jam"
01:02:56 The importance of getting on Powell
01:06:45 The development of board sizes and shapes
01:13:48 Pioneering switchstance
01:14:47 Did Salman do the first late shove?
01:23:23 Winning SOTY in 1993
01:33:33 life after SOTY
01:41:11 One of Salman's most embarrassing moments
01:43:55 Going form Real to The Firm to Black Label
01:51:09 Why he was never a video part guy
01:58:13 Leaving Black Label and going back to Powell
02:00:32 Skateboard graphics then vs. now
02:12:36 Inducted into the Skateboarding Hall Of Fame
02:13:25 Big Brother's most beautiful skater
Edited By: Tim Olson & Roger Bagley

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15 июн 2024

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@T_D_ Год назад

I bought a Salman board in 93 or so. The graphic was an x-ray of his broken arm and there was a small piece of his cast in plastic included with the deck.

@CRASSsk8s Год назад

🔥

@T_D_ Год назад

@@CRASSsk8s the graphic was a painting of his arm x ray and I’m pretty sure the deck was put out by Real Skateboards. I just tried googling it but couldn’t find anything. The piece of Salman’s arm cast was slightly smaller than a postage stamp. It was included under the plastic that the deck was sealed in. I had that piece of his cast on my shelf for years. Then it disappeared. No idea what happened to it.

@theJACK__ Год назад

he had that thing on forever!

@frankmart3339 Год назад

We need willy santos on the show

@sooperheep Год назад

For sure, Jeremy Klein too

@thomasrainbow Год назад

And Lavar McBride

@homeskillet64 Год назад

Yes please! Get Willy Santos on! I'll pay for gas. -EA

@BradConroy_guitar Год назад

Yes please.

@passenger-rider Год назад

@@thomasrainbow 411 VM 1997, Xzibit - Foundation. What a classic, I watched it everyday before skating when I was a kid.

@caseyaylward8853 Год назад

Congrats to Salman for making it through covid with his restaurants. That was no easy feat

@caseyaylward8853 Год назад

@@danielhollingsworth3701 Is that cuz a lot of pizza shop business is to go?

@MarkAziz33 Год назад

One of the best Nine Club interviews thus far! Salman had a very strong influence on me when I was younger and was the reason I started skating switch in '91. Love to hear about his continued success with Pizzanista and that he has a family now! Jeron and Salman's history and connection was such a wonderful surprise, and the admiration and respect Dubs has for Salman is undeniable! Thank you Nine Club for giving this legend his flowers!

@museic01 8 месяцев назад

💯💯🎊💯💯🎊💯🎊💯🤠👺🐥🦉🦉

@agostocobain2729 Год назад

Being Persian, and Azeri like Salman, I'm so proud that he's Persian as well, and with SOTY under his belt, and pioneering switchstance, he jus fuels me with pride. Dude my dad owned a French bakery too, in Pasadena CA. so trippy all the similarities. Salam dadash

@homeskillet64 Год назад

I love it when Rog chimes in. It's like hearing the voice of God lol.

@CRASSsk8s Год назад

💫

@erichanhauser3190 Год назад

Rog is knowledge. Skate historian. Love it. Kelly is like the 411 archivist. Jeron is Jeron legend. Roberts is a trip. LA courthouse.

@BazSouthern Год назад

Can tell Dubs really respects Salman Agah

@reluctyupp85 Год назад

Thank you Salman for giving props to an unsung hero in Tony Henry 👏🏾 🙏🏾 RIP 👑

@troykooper3886 Год назад

RIP

@theJACK__ Год назад

🥀

@FarmageddonRecordsOfficial Год назад

This was a rad one. I’ll never forget all the crazy switch tricks he was doing way back when. I hope you guys eventually get Guy or Natas on in the near future

@c.5266 Год назад

Loved hangin with this dude at Skate Church! He was always super humble and generous. Killer episode

@gigapus5050 Год назад

I've heard that about him being super cool and treating everyone like a friend when he was skating a session with people.

@johnbultman7051 Год назад

Amazing. Was hoping this would happen. When you did that "moments that changed skateboarding" the Salman switch immediately came to mind mostly cause I broke my ankle and was forced to skate switch and was pleasantly surprised. Thank you!

@ruiserrao Год назад

In 95 I went with my friends from Portugal to Germany for the world skateboarding cup contest, Münster Monster Mastership. The Pro´s were all staying at this big hotel and everybody went there at night to try to get some product or just to see their idols. One night there were hundreds of kids and some were skating on the street in front, some german man driving by gets all pissed, gets out of the car and takes the board from one of the kids. Salman saw it and went to the man and took the board from the man and gave it to the kid. That was super cool! Even Ricky Oyola were psyched on it!

@bakersakter Год назад

"pizza is like skateboarding, there's no rules" Salman Agah 2023

@elmercyperro Год назад

Skate shop pizza shop concept is brilliant.

@ian_gee Год назад

should have let that moment, between Salman and Jeron, marinate for a few more moments!

@robertblackmore703 Год назад

Happy for the homie Salman. Happy, humble, kind, legend. ❤

@l8nitekinks Год назад

this ep only made me realize that we need at least 5 eps with Rodney Mullen like cmon guys holy grail ep for the culture and to be forever archived for the future

@nicolasbaker9601 Год назад

I was just talking to somebody about the "jocking yourself is a kook move" mentality that used to be in skateboarding. That shit was real man. You could be looked at as a kook just for being hyped on yourself for doing something really sick. It was just bad etiquette and you had to be all cool guy and non chalant. Aw man, if our skate forefathers could only have imagined how social media would change that. Now it's par for the course.

@shakeandbreak2938 Год назад

I had his Rocket Queen board and it changed my skating. Thank you Salman!

@BentMode1989 Год назад

Guest!! 🙌🏽

@mariofiref 9 месяцев назад

Saw him skate The Wave by the Sunnyvale Town Center back in 93-94. We were just little skater maggots at the time. He was doing switch front side flips at the top of the wave. The top was like 2 stories up and his flips were like 3ft off the face and bolts everytime. Insane He came and talked to us as we sat on our boards and just watched in awww. He actually kicked down some Esté pants and hats to us. My favorite all time skater

@RickKosickFilms Год назад

You need to get Tony Alva on the show.

@passenger-rider Год назад

Tremendous podcast with a legend like Agah. Would be so cool if you can get John Cardiel. I bet he has some crazy stories to tell.

@morgellon7877 Год назад

Awesome interview. I learned a while back Tony Henry (RIP) had the first documented backside noseblunt slide (published right before Hensley's); cool they played some of his stuff on here. I first saw Salman Agah in Label Kills; crazy that him and Jason Adams grew up skating together and were in that video together and that's probably Adams' most well-known and influential part, like almost ten years after Salman was SOTY.

@FWDMovementVideos Год назад

Wow!! This is gonna epic. Thank you guys 🍻

@jamelgriffin9216 Год назад

Salman Algah looking like old dude from “UP” 😅 👊🏾

@michaelmoses4901 Год назад

haha I recognized that but couldn't place it!

@SecretSpots Год назад

The port-o-potty incident was hysterical!!! 🤣 Salman is a legend!

@straingoods2090 Год назад

I met him in Visalia CA in around 1998, he was annoyed I asked him to sign my sticker but he still did, still have it to this day!

@mc540flip Год назад

Finally! Salman is rad. I entered a contest in the middle of downtown Phoenix back in ‘94. The Real team (Shawn, Drake, etc.) and some Stereo heads were there (Mike Daher, one of my favorites). I took second place in the 16 and up category. Laura Martin (Cowtown) gave me a shirt and my friends were stoked, congratulating me. I look up and Salman is just staring at me with a slight smile. Stoked! Shawn Mandoli was just stationary in their circle just doing nollie flips over and over so smooth and consistent. Daher got some photos for his Pro Spotlight then. Oh I’d totally buy a complete from Salman and get that free pie for sure!

@mjheiting6168 Год назад

Heater this week 🔥🔥🔥

@edwjohnson1 Год назад

This is my new favorite episode. Thanks guys

@vitor4130 Год назад

Really like the episode. I loved what he had to say about filming video parts. Nice one!

@MrSash47 Год назад

Great episode! I love Salman's perspective on skateboarding, business and life. Thank you!🙂

@allanreyes5520 Год назад

U guys left out his "Arm cast" story.. & Este clothing..great intervw nonetheless

@maartenderyck1 Год назад

This is gonna be a good one! Happy monday buddies!

@reluctyupp85 Год назад

John Reeves did a late shuv it first on video... in Hokus Pokus 1989.

@petMonster28 Год назад

Great conversation. One of my favorite skaters of the 90's. Congrats on the HOF, brotha!

@BlackMarketHoney Год назад

Awesome!! Great stories! The Sultan of Switch!

@FredvanSchie Год назад

So good! One of my favorites so far.

@skatechatham Год назад

I saw Salman in person at least 3 times in 92/93 when he had the cast on his wrist. He was at the Real demo in Toronto at Rudy's Skate Explosion and I think for another event there, then I saw him at Radland's in England in 1993. I wish I wasn't a shy 16 year old at the time, he seems like a chill guy, but in person at the time he was a scary serious looking guy!!

@WolfWould Год назад

One of the early Real videos, The Real Video or Reel to Real but his first switch lines, over the hydrant! I wondered who'd win in their prime Kelch vs Agah in a fight. Lol

@morgellon7877 Год назад

The Real Video. Real to Reel came out in 2001. I don't think he was on Real for the latter; he was in Black Label's Label Kills from 2001, the first video I saw him in.

@WolfWould Год назад

@@morgellon7877 The Real Video was their first wasnt it? Like Kelly Bird and Mandoli Devera parts? Huf too? Eastern Exposure I think Huf was in back then

@morgellon7877 Год назад

@WolfWould I'm certain it was. It was before my time. I've watched it online; I watch his part and Gonz' part from it a lot, but I should watch the whole thing again.

@WolfWould Год назад

@@morgellon7877 I started in about 92 but Kicked around on fish shapes since like 88 just as a kid still riding bmx but around that 92 time I goy my own board so all the videos sometimes run together or out of order in my head. Especially now geez so many clips and videos released daily!

@morgellon7877 Год назад

@WolfWould I started in 2000, but I rolled around on my sister's old 80's Variflex fish throughout the 90's. I learned ollies and heelflips on that thing before I even really skated; I'd hold myself up with the back of our couch and pretend I was skating, haha. Eventually I broke it and got a popsicle, and my first issue of Thrasher, the Geoff Rowley SOTY issue. I remember that Vans ad where he's lipsliding that massive rail scaring the crap out of me, like making my palms hurt like when I see someone rock climbing or scaling a tall building (I'm afraid of heights). The prospect of getting good at skating seemed like such a daunting impossibility at that time with what I was seeing; I don't even know how kids starting today must feel about it. Stuff today is like superhuman.

@MegaAppl3 Год назад

Classic Episode ! One of my favorites, I had the I ❤ Salman tee when I was younger

@williep8890 Год назад

Great episode guys, Salman is such a rad guy 😎

@Stug138 Год назад

The nine club needs to get natas kaupas.

@humanbrisket7718 Год назад

Patiently waiting

@Stug138 Год назад

@@humanbrisket7718 I can't wait to hear Natas story.

@jackhammered Год назад

Holy Jeebus! Been waiting on this since day one!

@longrodlseries Год назад

Him bringing up the skate camp in the Fillmore brought back memories! Loved skating his shoes. Glad to see Pizzanista been doing so well.

@erichanhauser3190 Год назад

Jeron looks so happy. Makes me happy.

@whitelotusskateboardcompan9373 Год назад

That was fresh! Mad love and respect 🙏

@BobWeaver3000 Год назад

Thanks guys, awesomeness

@BradConroy_guitar Год назад

Glad that I grew up in this era of skating.

@robthegod9062 Год назад

That camel board was pretty dope. Iconic. It was everywhere. Loved it

@kijnek Год назад

Nice episode. Thank you.

@ryanrowe1975 Год назад

Great episode

@tetheredstar3987 Год назад

Great episode once again. I saw Salman at a demo in Adelaide many years ago & have been a fan since.

@goldwold Год назад

One of my all time favorite decks was my Real Salman Agah blue and purple striped with a little camel on it.

@erichanhauser3190 Год назад

I still have a Salman Agah Vans tshirt from the mid 90s. This is cool episode. Again, killing it.

@randyrhodesjr1745 Год назад

Long time coming 🔥💯🙏🖤

@diosgengar Год назад

I met Salman at a demo(Beenleigh, Australia) in the mid 90s, he was so down to earth. He was ripping, most didnt know he was sk8in switch. Good dude.

@mtgchocolate5641 Год назад

One of my favorite pros. I don’t know how many Salman boards and shoes I had back in the day. Thanks!

@jessiemartinez3056 Год назад

You still got a pair if those vans in size 10 ?

@mtgchocolate5641 Год назад

@@jessiemartinez3056 No that was a long time ago 25+ years

@jessiemartinez3056 Год назад

@@mtgchocolate5641 oh ok just thought to ask.. LOL

@thomasrainbow Год назад

Wow so good and so much wisdom! Legendary skateboarder!

@AtomMachinerule Год назад

Wanted to hear the back story on the scalping incident.. I'm sure it's a touchy subject but would like to know about it. You guys should make these live so the chat could ask a couple of questions towards the end.

@thomasrainbow Год назад

Awesome! Legend!

@edwardduarte7393 Год назад

Pizza Nizza in DTLA I love it!! Use to go all the time.

@darklight4815 Год назад

So many legends on this show my dudes....and Nine Club pizza with 9 toppings...for 9 dollars

@StumpyMason_ Год назад

Very special!!

@johnnydias6950 Год назад

BEST NINE CLUB YET 🔥

@WoodPusher18 Год назад

When y'all gonna do one with Elijah berle , Kevin Bradley, or Aiden Mackey, we need those asap ❗

@TheArts19 Год назад

Agah 8.75" Flight Powell Peralta, Indy 169, Bones Hawk SPF 84B 60mm, Bones Swiss bearings. That's wassup.

@nelsonp2273 Год назад

This was so inspiring! Made me wanna go skate and eat pizza lol

@bearchrist2513 Год назад

Salman is such a good dude!!! worked up at vans skate camp in 2004 and he stayed up for the summer and he was my favorit.e i was a young little shit and he was a fatherly man but like in the best way love this guy forever time for a pilgramage to pizzanista!

@bearchrist2513 Год назад

☦

@deespecv9214 Год назад

Dude was so graceful, with his cast and all.

@ryankuhn926 Год назад

Hot one’s colab with the new pizza joint using the last dab sauce. Make it happen Roger!!

@eek412 Год назад

The first Thrasher ever bought was with him on the cover

@jeffbond5062 Год назад

I got to witness Salman skate the small vert ramp at ramp club San Jose. Really fun sessions. His front side alley op 50-50 was gnar

@Nomad_Skateboarding Год назад

Thank you Salman for this! So sick to hear these stories for the first time! My own anecdote: There were definitely people skating switch in the early 90's! I started skating in 1980, and rode switch from day one. I spent the next most of my life being laughed at when I would tell people that the body doesn't care which way you go sideways! I rode the original 'popsicle', the Double Vision, just because it was the only symmetrical board in the 80's at the time (sorry Mike V! The Barnyard deck came after!) to skate switch. So stoked to see skating finally catching up! All the years wasted by so many because they just do what others tell them, which is the antithesis of what skating is about to me. :)

@mosmith3026 Год назад

Thank you guys! Gonz next?!

@jasonschwartz9443 Год назад

Props to Salman. Pizza shops are in New York City all over the place. Lol. Glad he's putting it up in L.A. like here. We hear you giving Williamsburg, Brooklyn a shout. I skated that statue step curb so many times there. San Jose now on the map a little more. Supposedly about 800 or so young professionals came to NYC for work a year ago specifically from San Jose. All welcome here from the people I met. Nice people. Good vibes.

@dannyblitz2122 Год назад

We had a rad public, steel mini with extensions in the early 90s and the snake sessions were insane

@michaelgibis Год назад

Such a good episode - Salman Agah had a huge influence on me as a young skater and still has 🔥

@cedbea6135 Год назад

Another amazing guest ! thanks 9 club

@AndresRodriguez-yq5iz Год назад

dope episode, well conducted. It seemed more orderly than other 9C shows. Salman was rad at story telling too. The switch O.G., right here boys and girls 🤙

@Skriot Год назад

How about a Rob Mertz interview?

@mattimaranda9638 Год назад

SOTY!!! By the way, thanks for ripping in Label Kills...that video was huge for me growing up.

@erichanhauser3190 Год назад

Yup. I miss the snake sessions on the vert ramp. Knew someone was gonna bail & drop in.

@joeydlc Год назад

Salman!! Legend, thanks for this one boys. @thenineclub

@bonez_westoz Год назад

Such a rad dude , so humble and chill , stories were 🔥, shout out Salman Agah and Pizzanista.... on a second note how many god damn watches did they give you guys cos they aint cheap hahah love you guys , take care from Old buddy Bonez 💚🤙🛹

@sidabbruzzi3239 Год назад

Hello Salman Great Show Guys !!

@sidabbruzzi3239 Год назад

I lost my first skateboard down a street manhole too ….

@Alexendrewithouta Год назад

love the all crew thantk you

@76spatterson Год назад

sw-flip bs5050 in 1993 at a demo

@mikefilicky7961 Год назад

Had Salmon's pro shoe in full burgundy swede colorway...first pro model vans I ever had...so sick I rocked em hard in 94'!!

@joshf2277 Год назад

Yasss!!! I had the Salman Agah striped rugby shirt with the camel logo!

@thetruthishidden6039 Год назад

Really wish they could have gone into the "enemy of the state" regarding small business in Cali. Some of us, outside of the state see the things going on there, and are just in awe. In a bad way... Generally speaking. Awesome interview guys

@philipsimmons2170 Год назад

Awesome out

@desertedlodge7492 Год назад

Righteous!

@alextrugs Год назад

Hyped for this one

@ryanhovland6203 Год назад

love going to lunch at pizza nista! it’s so nice and expensive that I’m forced savor my food because it’s the only meal I’ll be able to afford that day. 2 slices of pizza, a drink, and a side of ranch for just over $20! Love it!