Micky Papa | The Nine Club

Micky Papa discusses growing up in Canada, scheming to help his family, drinking when he was a teenager, jumping through the hoops to get sponsored, how Sluggo helped his family during the Christmas holiday, getting a commercial gig & paid his family's rent, getting on Blind Skateboards, getting into SLS from the Tampa Pro contest, how quad tendinitis almost took him out, Yuto staying at his house early on in his career and much more!

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Timestamps
00:00:00 Micky Papa
00:03:21 Learning fakie tricks
00:05:34 Quad tendinitis almost took him out
00:18:16 Practicing for PSL (Close Friends List)
00:22:10 Getting into skateboarding
00:24:23 Jumping through the hoops to get sponsored
00:31:12 Online money making schemes
00:41:08 RDS pass
00:44:07 Tough up bringing, Drinking as a teenager
00:55:32 Scheming to help his family
00:59:59 Got a commercial gig for $3,500 & paid his family's rent
01:15:01 Coming to the States
01:19:48 Damn am & getting on Blind Skateboards
01:25:11 Reverse engineering a goal
01:30:01 Getting into SLS from the Tampa Pro contest
01:33:36 Flew down from Canada to skate a gap in malibu
01:38:09 He's a free agent
01:41:31 Ted talk
01:47:41 Yuto stayed at his house early on

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