Chris Roberts (skateboarder)

Chris Roberts is an American professional skateboarder and host of the podcast The Nine Club with Chris Roberts, born in Inglewood, California, on 13 August 1977 and raised in Malibu. He grew up skating around Los Angeles County and Southern California, and in 2007 he became a professional skateboarder with Chocolate Skateboards. In 2009, while filming Crailtap's Lil Slice of Life web clip, his cat Garvy figured prominently in the segment, and after becoming an inside joke among sponsored Southern California skateboarders the cat was featured on a series of decks and merchandise for his sponsors' brands. Around 2013 and 2014 he joined Marc Johnson and Kenny Anderson in launching the Back Forty project, a creative outlet meant to keep quality skateboarding media, industry and culture in the hands of skateboarders themselves.