Stoked to see this new video of our team rider Sky and her brother Ocean cruising the highway near their home, no cars just smooth asphalt and some fun skating.

Sky is riding our new Dusters x Girl is NOT a 4 Letter Word "It's Not About Pretty" cruiser board which is available at skate shops worldwide as well as Zumiez on line - you can get it HERE.

A portion of the sales from this board got to Exposure Skate a 501c3 non-profit that helps girls in skateboarding.

Total RESPECT for this badass girl. Emily Pross is the current World Champion for Women's Downhill Skateboarding and she's going to college at the same time. Watch this interview she did with Joanne Gagis on the "Life and Living" show and learn how she maintains college, racing, and more importantly, how she figured out a way to gain a major sponsor from outside the skateboarding industry to help support her financially.

This is a great lesson for female skaters to look outside of the industry for support, and for companies outside of skateboarding to see the value in sponsoring a female skateboarder.

Congrats Emily!

You may have the "back to work / back to school blues" after the long holiday weekend, but this should cheer you up.

It's here!!  The full length film"That One Day", starring 17 year old female skateboarder Rachelle Vinberg and The Skate Kitchen skater girls. Directed by Crystal Moselle this film is part of fashion house, Miu Miu's "Women's Tales" that shines a spotlight on female directors and films about women.

Beautiful to watch, and very real with the things Rachelle goes through to skateboard at her local park, and how meeting another group of skater girls gives her a place to belong. This is one to watch.

Enjoy!!

Photo Ian Logan

We'd like to welcome 14 year old AM street skater, Emma Houle, to the GN4LW team! You may remember Emma from last years Exposure Skate contest where she seemingly appeared out of nowhere to take 2nd in the 14 and under street comp. Or maybe you know her from her instagram page where she documents the tricks she is learning - hits and misses - for her 22,900 instagram followers. Or perhaps you've run into her at one of the LA Skate Girls meet up sessions. She likes to skate anywhere and everywhere, and is always smiling and ripping.

 You can check out Emma's bio and more pics on the drop down TEAM menu at the top of our site.

We're stoked to have Emma on the team!

The new issue of GIRLS WHO RIDE Magazine is out and it's so chock full of amazing women in action sports! This issue features Joana Schenker, a world champion bodyboarder, Valeria Kechichian from Longboard Girls Crew, a recap of the Venice Ladies Springtime Jam, "flashback" with freestyle skater Michelle Kolar-Scott, Jayme Perry and Katherine Beattie on what it's like to be pioneers of women's WCMX, Chicks in Bowls, an article about the rad girls who rollerskate in skateparks, and an East Coast / West Coast piece on Soul Skating with skateboarders Elise Crigar and Sierra Prescott. That is a lot of goodness in one issue!

This is the ONLY magazine out there focusing solely on women in action sports and it's FREE to read online. We are so proud to be involved with this awesome publication!

Check out the new issue HERE

Another write up, this time on Vogue.com - they seem to have a huge obsession with skateboarding lately -  on the film that director Crystal Moselle did that has skater Rachelle Vinberg and The Skate Kitchen crew of girls in it. It debuted at the Venice Film festival this weekend.

You can read the rest of the article - which is really good -  HERE

Watch the trailer to the film HERE

This new show from Viceland is well worth a watch. Skateboarder Rick McCrank, finds, explores, and skateboards in abandoned places across the USA - like this Cleveland, Ohio shopping mall. No skater girls in this series (that we know about yet)  but we love that it takes us back to the roots of skateboarding in many ways. Before skateparks were built, we skated whatever we could find, it wasn't prefect, it wasn't pretty, but it was a lot of fun... and it had soul.

Download the Vice App to watch all the episodes as they are released. It's a great series!

These awesome pics by photographer Chelsea Adams are so perfect for this weekend. A great reminder to just get out and skate and enjoy the three day holiday to the fullest.  Be a soul skater, see where your board takes you.  xx

P.S. That's our rad ambassador Elise Crigar skating above!

Julz Lynn

Bryce Wettstein

Allysha Le

Kisa Nakamura

Nora Vasconcellos

Nicole Hause

Yndiara Asp

Lizzie Armanto

Jordyn Barratt

Brighton Zeuner

Photos by Joanne Barratt - please feel free to share on your social media but make sure you credit @joannebarratt_photo - thank you!

Great series of portraits by photographer Joanne Barratt from the Vans Park Series World Championships in Malmo, Sweden.


Women’s Final Results


1st – Brighton Zeuner
2nd – Jordyn Barratt
3rd – Kisa Nakamura
4th – Allysha Le
5th – Lizzie Armanto
6th – Yndiara Asp
7th – Nora Vasconcellos
8th – Nicole Hause
9th – Julz Lynn Kindstrand
10th – Bryce Wettstein


Huge thanks to Vans and The Boardr for an amazing event!

Photo by Brigitte Lacombe

We're pretty blown away by this trailer for the new film directed by Crystal Moselle presented by  fashion house Miu Miu, featuring girls from the New York Skate Crew "The Skate Kitchen" .  Check out skater Rachelle Vinberg in the lead role.

Directed by Crystal Moselle, this trailer is breathtaking on all levels. Watch it and see.  We can't wait to see the entire film when it comes out in September. 

This is the official info from Miu Miu about the film:

"Everything can change in one day. Rachelle, a 17-year-old girl living outside of New York City, discovers this, riding her skateboard through a journey of self-discovery. Intimidated by casual, macho sexism, Rachelle stumbles across a gang of charismatic, fearless skater girls. They show her another world is out there. A world of female friendship, strength and belonging. “Today,” confesses Rachelle “is the first day that I haven’t been feeling that sense of loneliness.”

That One Day, by American director Crystal Moselle, is the 12th commission from Miu Miu Women’s Tales, the acclaimed short-film series by women who critically celebrate femininity in the 21st century. Crystal Moselle’s debut, The Wolfpack, about a family who home schooled and raised their seven children in the confinement of their apartment in the Lower East Side, won the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize at 2015’s Sundance Film Festival. Moselle also made the viral video sensation Shapeshifting, on a pack of 14-year-old ballerinas. 

“I am in love with the transformation stage in a girl’s life,” says Moselle, “when they are not quite a girl but not quite a woman.” That One Day renders this moment as a tender daydream -ardently feminine skaters in serene slow-mo- which isn’t afraid of the tough truths facing young women. “When I was in my transformation stage,” Moselle reveals, “as a young girl, Miu Miu was a big part of that story.”

Two of our favorite badass babes & WCMX rippers, Katherine Beattie and Jamey Perry, got together to make this rad and inspiring video at Venice Skatepark, have a look and be prepared to be INSPIRED!

Featuring:

World Champion WCMX Rider Jamey Perry
Pioneer of Women's WCMX and the first woman to do a backflip in a chair, Katherine Beattie
Filmed and Edited by Rich Millard
Location: Venice Skatepark
Katherine & Jamey are riding Box Wheelchairs.

Jordyn Barratt

Kisa Nakamura

Brighton Zeuner

Yndiari Asp

Nora Vasconcellos

Julz Lynn

Nicole Hause

Allysha Le

Bryce Wettstein

Fans started lining up early for the Women's Park Event

Bryce, Brighton, & Jordyn

 Photos by Joanne Barratt - Island Style Images

 Photos by Joanne Barratt - please feel free to share on your social media 

                                but make sure you credit @joannebarratt_photo - thank you!
 

More pics in from the Vans Pro Park Series World Championships. Some of the best skating we have seen this past year for sure!


Women’s Final Results


1st – Brighton Zeuner
2nd – Jordyn Barratt
3rd – Kisa Nakamura
4th – Allysha Le
5th – Lizzie Armanto
6th – Yndiara Asp
7th – Nora Vasconcellos
8th – Nicole Hause
9th – Julz Lynn Kindstrand
10th – Bryce Wettstein


Huge thanks to Vans and The Boardr for an amazing event and to photographer Joanne Barratt for covering it for us.


More pics up in next few days!

                                                        Photos by Heidi Lemmon

Please feel free to share on your social media but make sure to credit 

@heidi_lemmon and @girlisnota4letterword

This weekends session at The Skate House, brought to you by Poseiden Foundation x LA Girls Skate Sesh, was going off!  Girls were pushing one another to do harder and harder tricks and were genuinely stoked for one another when someone landed something they had been trying.  Even during the contest portion, every single girl was encouraging another to make their trick - super nice to see. We saw a lot of rail slides, jumping the 4-stair, kick-flips, and even some 1/2 pipe riding.

Huge thanks to Poseiden Foundation for putting this on, LA Girls Skate Sesh for gathering the girls, and The Skate House for the venue. And BIG thanks to photographer Heidi Lemmon for donating her time to shoot on Saturday!

Everyone working together to support girls skateboarding is helping to create more and more  opportunities and events for girls everywhere.

Keep Shredding!

On left Haley,  Kelly in middle & Esther on the right

Esther

Kelly

Holly

Emma

Teagan

Angela

London

Michelle

Vianez

Please feel free to share any of these images on your social media sites - 

we just ask that you please credit @girlisnota4letter word - thank you!

This is what girls skateboarding looks like all over the country. Girls are skating everywhere, not just at the bigger contests you see on the web cast events or on TV, but at local skateparks with grass roots events that draw girls from as far away as 3 hours or more, for the opportunity to finally skate with other girls all day long.

Poseiden Foundation x LA Girls Skate Sesh event today at The Skate House in Chatsworth was one of those events. Girls came from Bakersfield, Palmdale, Ventura, and other outlying areas,  to have a six hour skate sesh with girls they may have only known from their instagram feeds. There were prizes throughout the day and contests for street and half-pipe. Tips were shared and each girl encouraged another.

We love seeing these grass roots events happen - so please let us know about any events coming up so we can share the info. Lets keep girls skateboarding growing!

Thanks to  Poseiden Foundation,  LA Girls Skate Sesh, and The Skate House for a great event!


* We also need help posting girls names with pics above - let us know on instagram who they are!

Tin Soldiers is an incredible documentary showing the world of adaptive sports and features some of the most amazing athletes in the world. Featuring Alana Nichols, Quinn Waitley, Matt Hawkins, Zack Ruhl, Abel Rose, and Justin Beauchesne. You can see this inspiring movie on itunes now.

Lizzie Armanto in The Ride Channel's FREE LUNCH video. Hear how she met her BFF Allysha Le, the key to dying hair, arts and crafts, and representing women's skateboarding. And some great advice on what it's really like being a pro skater - it's not just skating.

Make sure you "Save the Date" because Poseiden Foundation's annual LADIES DAY AT THE BERRICS is coming! Once again they are having a Best Trick Contest with Open and Pro divisions, prize money for Pro, awesome prizes for the Open division.

Poseiden puts on an amazing event and we promise that you don't want to miss it!

Make sure you RSVP ---->    Berrics@poseiden.org

We will see you there! 

all photo images and video via Vans Park Series

12 year old Brighton Zeuner pulled out all the stops and landed every single trick in this truly awesome run to earn her 1st place and the Women's 2016 World Champion status.




Jordyn Barratt was sitting in 10th place with 1 run left, and we were all biting our nails to see what would happen. Luckily Jordyn thrives on pressure and put down an epic run that moved her all the way up to 2nd place!





Kisa Nakamura technically wasn't even making the trip to Malmo, Sweden for the Championships, but when 1st place qualifier from the Huntington Beach contest, Hanna Zanzi, had to drop out, Kisa came on-board as the alternate, flying in from her home in Japan.  She kicked butt and ended up going from alternate to 3rd place!


 Huge thanks to Vans and The Boardr for an amazing event!

Brighton Zeuner

Jordyn Barratt

Kisa Nakamura

Allysha Le

Yndiara Asp

Nicole Hause

 Photos by Joanne Barratt - please feel free to share on your social media but make sure you credit @joannebarratt_photo - thank you!

We're starting to get in some pics from photographer Joanne Barratt who shot for us at the Vans Park Series Championships in Malmo, Sweden today, and here's a taste of what's to come...

We can't wait to see more!

Congrats to all the girls for skating hard and tearing it up. If you want to catch the video of Julz doing that insane drop in,  see our previous posts. CRAZY!


Huge thanks to Vans and The Boardr for an amazing event!

1st place - Brighton Zeuner

2nd place Jordyn Barratt

3rd place Kisa Nakamura

  All images and info via Vans Park Series

 
Malmö, SWEDEN (August 20, 2016)  Setting the tone for the ISF-recognized World Championships of park terrain skateboarding, 12-year old phenom Brighton Zeuner swept the packed stands away with a fantastic 360 melon over the ski jump to land her winning score. Brighton is joined by Jordyn Barratt, who rose from last place in the final minutes to claim a glorious second place win. And finally for a true Cinderella story, Japan’s Kisa Nakamura, a contender who has traveled far and wide to enter today as first alternate, triumphs with excellent form and speed to secure third.

“I’m so happy. All the girls killed it. It has been so much fun. This is my third time [in Malmö] and every time it’s the best vibes ever—and I’m picky with my vibes!” 

–Brighton Zeuner, Vans Park Series Women’s World Champion


Women’s Final Results


1st – Brighton Zeuner
2nd – Jordyn Barratt
3rd – Kisa Nakamura
4th – Allysha Le
5th – Lizzie Armanto
6th – Yndiara Asp
7th – Nora Vasconcellos
8th – Nicole Hause
9th – Julz Lynn Kindstrand
10th – Bryce Wettstein