The new Cadillac XT4 Joy commercial features 4 female skateboarders.  Anyone know who the girls skating are?

BTW - I think the skaters look like they are having more fun than the girls in the Cadillac!

It's that time of the year again!

SkatePal is currently accepting applications for male and female volunteers to teach skateboarding in Palestine between March and October 2019. Placements are offered for either one or two months.

For more information or to receive your application form please email: info@skatepal.co.uk

Pro street skater, Margielyn Didal, from Cebu has just been named one of Time Magazine's most influential teens! After winning gold at the Asian Games she changed the persepctive of  being a female skateboarder in her native country, the Phillippines. Getting people, including her family,  to realize that skateboarding is not just a boy's sport.

Congrats to Margielyn for leading the way to create change!  That is HUGE!

Girl is NOT a 4 Letter Word x Sunshine Canteen Tee's

 Nora Vasconcellos "Wicked Queen" pro model from Welcome Skateboards

Lizzie Armanto's pro wheel by Bones

Badass Skatemom Socks

Mixt Studio x GN4LW "Good Vibes" tote bag

Salt Rags Skateboards for kids

 It's Not About Pretty: A Book About Radical Skater Girls

S1 "Pink Helmet Posse" Helmet

The Skate Kitchen Movie

2x4 Mini Ramps

Femme Magnifique Book

Dusters California x GN4LW "Street Angel" cruiser

 Krux Hardware

 Street Angel Graphic Novels

 Dickies Girl Apparel / Photo Julie Daniels

Check out our holiday gift guide, full of rad ideas for the female skater on your gift list!

We've put together a list of 15 gifts, from low ($4.95) to high ($1,800), beginner to advanced, that any female skateboarder in your life would love to unwrap this holiday season!  All products shown above can be purchased online, so no rushing around from store to store, trying to hunt them down. Some sites are offering free shipping or discount codes as well. All products listed are things we put our trust in and have first-hand experience with.

Happy Holidays!!



1.  Girl is NOT a 4 Letter Word x Sunshine Canteen Collab Tees -  are available in kids and adult sizes and have retro California 70's inspired graphics that everyone will love. If you use code SHOP20 you will get 20% off your entire purchase!  $22.00  to  $45.00

Shopgirlisnota4letterword.com


2.  Nora Vasconcellos "Wicked Queen" pro model by Welcome Skateboards, any adult female skater in your life would love this new design. The graphics are awesome and it just came out! And who isn't a fan of Nora?  $50.99

Skatewarehouse.com


 3.  Bones Lizzie Armanto Pro Wheel - the china blue pattern is awesome and the wheels are fast, they come in 2 sizes, 56mm and 58mm. Great as a stocking stuffer too! They are even on sale right now!   $24.99

Zumiez.com


4. Badass Skate Mom has another great stocking stuffer - their new socks are sweet, the designs are great and who doesn't want to be fearless and badass when they skate?  $8.00

BadassSkateMom.com


5. Mixt Studio x GN4LW "Good Vibes" Zippered Tote  - this roomy zippered tote bag is made out of Tyvek so it's super strong and washable! It also zips so all your skate gear or surf gear doesn't come tumbling out when you least expect it. The photos' on the bag were taken by GN4LW founder Cindy Whitehead, and proceeds go back to girls in skateboarding.   $46.00

Mixtstudio.com


6. Salt Rags Skateboards has the perfect board for your little mini shredder!  With kid appropriate graphics and sizes for any young skater, these boards are sure to be a hit under the Christmas tree. Check out their site for appropriate sizing!  $42.00

SaltRags.com 


7. It's Not About Pretty Book - Want to be inspired by other girls that skate? Grab a copy of the new hardback book, "It's Not About Pretty" each book comes with a 15x19 pull-out poster of a female skater, and is chock full of female skate shots,  from parks and pools, to street and downhill.  $35.00

Amazon.com


8. Pink Helmet Posse S1 Helmet - this helmet is designed to fit small riders and comes in PHP's signature pink colorway. It's definitely protective, but it also looks good. It's good to be a girl at the skatepark and pink is badass!  $60.00

Pinkhelmetposse.com

9. The Skate Kitchen Movie - is now out on iTunes so you can rent or buy it for a skater girl you love and even send it digitally to them! Please note that this is more of a teen/adult film due to some graphic content and subject matter. Excellent "coming of age" movie about girls who skate!  $4.99/rental   $14.99 Purchase 

Itunes
 

10. 2x4 Mini Ramps - Want to go BIG? Get her a high-quality mini ramp for your yard so she can skate whenever she wants! We like 2x4 Mini Ramps, these guys know their stuff and will even come out and put it together for you. Uneven ground? Not a problem (although extra charges may apply) they have a solution for everything and you'll be skating at home in no time! Ramp pictured is an 8x3 kit and runs $1,800.00 (without railings and extras like galvanized steel hardware etc.)

2x4miniramps.com

11. Femme Magnifique Book - this awesome anthology of 50 magnificient women who changed the world, is brought to you by editor Shelly Bond and published by IDW. The book is illustrated in comic book form and a fun read for any age. The visuals are stunning and the stories are amazing. And yes, a female OG skateboarder is represented!   $19.36

Amazon.com


12.  Street Angel Cruiser - Looking for a complete cruiser that is out of the box and ready to roll? The new Dusters California x GN4LW "Street Angel" board is perfect!  With art by comic book illustrator Jim Rugg, the board features well known comic book heroine "Street Angel".  This cruiser is small enough to fit in a school locker but stable and fun to ride anywhere you need to go!   $129.95

Thankyousupply.com 


13. Krux Hardware in Pink or Blue - Spice up her board with some Krux pink or blue hardware. The package comes with 8 pink bolts and one blue, or 8 blue and one pink - so configure any way you want. Another great stocking stuffer!  $4.95 /per pack 

NHSfunfactory.com


14. Street Angel Graphic Novels - Artist Jim Rugg keeps us entertained all year long with these comic books where the heroine is a female skater! Street Angel, aka Jesse Sanchez, is a homeless ninja on a skateboard and the deadliest girl alive. We don’t know where she came from, how she learned to fight, or if she’s even human. She possesses powers that help her escape traps, scale walls, pick locks and every other cool thing we wished we could do at that age. Street Angel is an urban legend, a mystery...the stuff of which comic books are made.  $14.95 each

Comixology.com


15. Dickies Girl Apparel - now made in the smallest of sizes, even your little one can now wear Dickies Girl at the skatepark. They also have Dickies Girls Junior for your teenage skater.  Many a pro skater swears by these pants and some (like Nora) even dye theirs a fav color for a more personal look.  $12.00 and up 

Dickies.com

Photo Ian Logan

Big congrats to Arianna Carmona who just received her first pro model skateboard from Moonshine Skateboards! Arianna won a silver medal at the Vert World Championships in Nanjing, China in 2017, and she has been on fire this year, taking second place in vert this past October at Exposure Skate.

 The Arianna Carmona "Death Moth" is  8.25 x 32.5 with a 14.75" wheelbase, the deck is stained and handcrafted in the USA by Drifter MFG with silk screened graphics. It's a small batch run, so get yours quick!  Comes with stickers and pin.  It's a gorgeous board and should be fun to ride too!

Art by Chris Alliston

Get yours HERE

 all images via Grizzly

Grizzly just released a collab collection that they did with instagram skater SkateMoss, the look is very athleisure/fashion x skate, full of bright colors and high eneergy graphics from head to toe. You can grab beanies, sports bras, cropped tee's and hoodies, joggers and bodysuits in various patterns, and the sizes range from XXS - XXL.

What we were most excited to see is the collab griptape - always fun to grip a new board with something interesting and different!

You can check it all out HERE

Jessie at Venice OG Jam Contest

The women battled hard all season during the OG Jam - from Venice Skatepark to a private pool in Palm Springs, the contests were fun and the ladies got to shred with friends and won great prizes at each stop.

At the end of the season the winner of the OG Jam Championships was Jessie Frietze-Armenta taking the coveted trophy and the spoils! Jessie's post on Instagram says it all - she never thought she'd be competing in skateboarding past age 11 and here she is as an adult winning an entire series!

#SkateboardingIsForever

Congrats Jessie!!

article via ABC News 

We are so stoked to announce that Girl is NOT a 4 Letter Word team rider, Grace Cochrane, is the first recipient of a Tasmanian Institute of Sport Scholarship for Skateboarding! Grace has just started competing internationally this past year and her future looks extremely bright. This young ripper made it to the semi-finals at the World Championships in Nanjing, China this past month and we know that with this scholarship she will be able to train even more and prepare for the 2020 Olympics, hopefully competing for AU! Grace is currently ranked sixth in Australia, with only one year of competition under her belt

GO GRACE!!!.

Read the entire article HERE

It's finally here! If you missed it in theaters, the film everyone has been talking about, THE SKATE KITCHEN, is now available to rent or buy on Itunes!

What could be better to watch in the evening over holiday break after a long skate sesh  with your crew?

Save the date! The rad people at Element are having a girls skate night at their private park at their headquarters in Irvine, CA. There will be music, vegan pizza, beer and a raffle for free give-a-ways!

So grab your girl gang and make a night of it!

December 6, 2018 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Element HQ
121 Waterworks Way
Irvine, CA 92618

Bella Kenworthy has always been a phenomenal young skater, but in the past year, she has really come into her own. Watch this sick edit she put together to wrap up 2018! We have it on REPEAT!

Forty nine guys and one woman...  Nora Vasconcellos is the only female skater up for Thrasher Magazine's  2018 "Skater of the Year" - it's awesome that a female skater is even in the running (because we know how these things usually are) so lets all get out and vote for Nora - she has really killed it this year and is fully deserving of this honor!

You can VOTE HERE - her name is last column - third from bottom.

It was all love and shout outs for Margielyn Didal this weeknd on her instagram page letting the skate community know that her sponsor Eighty Five Two Shop presented her with her first pro model!

The Cebu native has had an impressive year, she competed in the X-Games Minneaopils for the first time, and took home GOLD at the Asian Games just a few months later.

Congrats on your new pro model Margielyn - well deserved!!

"Margie Soooooo HYPE!!!! thank you Eightfivetwo shop for having me in the team but today @jbs8five2 @antclaravall you guys suprised me for this awesome board ❤️❤️❤️ so much Love and Support from you guys"

MS. RPRNSTD 2: Girl Gang Skate Vid Trailer from MS. RPRSNTD on Vimeo.


We are so stoked to see that MS. RPRSNTD is having film & photography pop-up & panel discussion! We missed the first one they had and kicked ourself for it. There will be D.J.'s Beer, Merchandise and Munchies!  And a skate video featuring female skaters of color! Check out the featured ladies below.

SAVE THE DATE!!  And grab your girl gang and come out to the launch party:








SPACE 15 TWENTY
520 N Cahuenga Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028
Friday, December 7th 2018
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Make sure you RSVP at MS RPRSNTD


If you miss the launch night, the event will run through December 9 with different things happening each day (we are all about that wellness pop-up on Sunday!) - so jump over to MS RPRSNTD's site to get all the details!

** This is a free event, please think about bringing a donation of a new/unopened holiday gift for the young adults of Covenant House California - It's a good time to spread some cheer!

Los Angeles Area


FRED SEGAL

8500 Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90069
310- 432-0560


TWEAK

8384 Beverly Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90048
310-653-6531

ARCANA

8675 Washington Blvd. / Helms Building
Culver City, CA 90232
310-458-1499


HENNESSEY & INGALLS

300 S. Santa Fe Ave. Suite M
Los Angeles, CA 90013
213-437-2130


BOOK SOUP

8818 Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90069
310-659-3310

ANIMAL HOUSE

66 Winward Avenue
Venice, CA 90291
310-392-5411


DIESEL, A BOOKSTORE

Brentwood Country Mart
225 26th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90402
310-576-9960

STORIES BOOKSTORE & CAFE

1716 Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026
213-413-3733


SALT SURF

Platform / A Collection
8840 Washington Blvd. #103
Culver City, CA 90232

WICKED+

140 Pier Avenue
Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
424-226-6568


PAGES: A BOOKSTORE

904 Manhattan Avenue
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
310-318-0900

MIXT

422 Pacific Coast Highway
Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
310-698-3653


SKYLIGHT BOOKS

1818 N. Vermont Avenue
Los Feliz, CA 90027
323-660-1175

THE BEEHIVE

451 Manhattan Beach Blvd
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
310-796-5500

HERMOSA HISTORICAL SOCIETY & MUSEUM

710 Pier Avenue
Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
310-318-9421

AETHER

161 South La Brea
Los Angeles, CA 90036
323-746-5147

THE ODELLS

3906 Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA  90029
323-741-0039

San Diego Area

STATUS SKATE SHOP  

2801 Roosevelt Street

Carlsbad, CA 92008
760-884-8833

California - Central Coast

CARAVAN OUTPOST

317 Bryant Street
Ojai, CA 93023
805-836-4891


Northern California


MOLLUSK SURF SHOP

4500 Irving Street
San Francisco, CA 94122
415-564-6300 


NEVE AND HAWK

641 San Anselmo Avenue
San Anselmo, CA 94960
415-306-7657


Michigan


MODERN SKATE & SURF

1500 N. Stephenson Highway
Royal Oak, MI 48067
248- 545-5700


Florida

CAMBIUM SURF SHOP

900 Augustine Blvd.
St. Augustine, FL 32080
904-566-7554


KONA SKATEPARK

8739 Kona Avenue
Jacksonville, FL 32211
904-725-8770

OBSCURA

51-C Cordova Street
St. Augustine, FL 32080
904-201-9763


New York

 AETHER

13 Crosby Street
New York, NY 10013
212-226-8349


Canada

FLATSPOT SKATESHOP
 
112 E. Pender Street
Vancouver, BC
604-899-8937


LONGBOARD HAVEN

183 Queen Street East
Toronto, Ontario Canada
416-603-9702


United Kingdom

BRIXTON'S BADDEST

Unit S01, Pop Brixton,

SW9 8PQ

London

Australia


DIEMEN DISTRIBUTION - AU DISTRIBUTION

+61 3 6234 7997
diemendistribution@gmail.com


JIMMY'S SKATE + STREET

103 Elizabeth Street
Hobart, Tasmania AU

France

 CRUISIN CITY    https://cruisincity.com/

Japan

CALIFORNICATION   https://californication.shop/

On Line

GN4LW Online Store

AMAZON

Death to Sadie

Stinson sisters

Jazzmen Chavez

Felicia

Adriana Uruena

Jazzmen Chavez

Chloe Opal

Adriuruena

Jazmyn Black

Death to Sadie & Felicia

Gable Stinson

Felicia

Tracie Garacochea

Jazmyn Black

Jazzmen Chavez

 Photos @ianloganphoto x @girlisnota4letterword

Please credit both when sharing on social - thanks!

La Girls Skate Sesh and Chicks in Bowls combined forces for a fun all girls skate meet up at Belvedere Skatepark in Los Angeles today. The ladies were out in full force and it was a blast seeing girls ripping on roller skates in the bowl, right next to female skateboarders and of course Tracie who shreds WCMX!

We love that these meet-ups are in all different places throughout LA and the surrounding areas, because  the crowd of girls is different each and every time. We met girls thast we had never met before and some that we only knew via Instagram - which was very cool!

Big thanks to Jazzmen and Chloe for putting these events together - we are proud to be a sponsor of this session, along with Bones and Autonomy skateboards!

See you next time!!

** If we posted a pic with no name under it, and you know who the girl is, please DM @girlisnota4letterword on Instagram and let us know so we can add it!  Thanks.

Our friends at LA GIRLS SKATE SESH have teamed up with the rad girls from CHICKS IN BOWLS for an all female skate sesh THIS Saturday, November 17 from 10 AM - 2 PM at Belvedere Skatepark in Los Angeles.

The session is FREE and all ages/abilities are welcome, if you bring a can of food you can be entered into a raffle for gear from Wicked Skate Wear! Each can of food you donate gets you (1) raffle ticket!

Girl is NOT a 4 Letter Word will be there as well, shooting pics for our site so there is coverage of the event  - so get ready to ride!

See you there!!

We are so in awe of Atit Verghese. You think being a female skateboarding in the USA is hard because you are a minority in the sport? Try being the only girl in a sea of boys in India where male / female roles in society are clearly defined. Atita ignored all the comments and stares, and she didn't just skate, she started a revolution so younger girls would start skating too.

Watch her story in this short film that Toyota created for their new  "Start Your Impossible" Series. 

 "Seeing people progress in a world that always tries to make you fail, I think that's really, really powerful." 

Atita Verghese - the only girl who was skateboarding in India.

Cindy skating back in the day

Cindy today

Cindy Whitehead  /  Founder of  “Girl is NOT a 4 Letter Word”

"Live life balls to the wall.  Do epic shit. Take every dare that comes your way. You can sleep when you're dead”. This is the personal motto of Cindy Whitehead.

She conquered the male dominated profession of pro vert skateboarding in the 70's and quickly became one of the top ranked professional female vert skateboarders in the U.S. for pool riding and half-pipe. To this day, Cindy still holds the distinction of being the only female to be featured in the centerfold plus a two-page article in a skateboarding magazine and was the first female skateboarder to have been sponsored by Puma.  

Since then, Cindy has gone on to coin the term "Sports Stylist®," working as a fashion stylist for the past 25 years specializing in sports, with companies like Gatorade, Nike, the NBA, and athletes such as Tiger Woods, Michelle Kwan, Kobe Bryant, Bethany Hamilton, Maria Sharapova, and Mia Hamm.

In 2012 she made national headlines by skateboarding down the closed 405 freeway in Los Angeles. In June of 2013, Cindy flew to Washington, DC to sign over 9 pieces of her skateboard history to The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History’s sports collections. Cindy was featured this past year in Puma Suede’s new book; XLV Stories of The Puma Suede - as the only female athlete profiled.

In 2013 Cindy created a brand called “Girl is NOT a 4 Letter Word” and came out with a collaboration skateboard with Dwindle Inc. (the largest company in professional skateboarding) by designing a skateboard aimed at the female market. The GN4LW brand gives back to women in action sports with every collab it does and Cindy just signed an additional two-year deal for her skateboard line, and an additional collab with a XS Helmets launched in January 2015.

Cindy has been profiled in magazines and sites such as ESPN, Forbes, Vogue, The Huffington Post, & Women’s Wear Daily, and has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows. Cindy has been a guest speaker & panelist at many events including; The Smithsonian Museum’s Innoskate event in Washington D.C., Chill Organizations fundraiser in Los Angeles and North Eastern Universities panel on “Participation in Sports” and Snapchat Headquarters.

Cindy most recently spoke at TEDxYouth in Santa Monica, CA. Cindy's talk was titled “Girl is NOT a 4 Letter Word”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9WgHYqJc5U


Cindy was inducted into The Skateboarding Hall of Fame on May 13, 2016 for her lengthy skate history.  Legendary rocker Joan Jett, and well respected skateboarder/photographer Bryce Kanights gave Cindy's introduction speech's.

Cindy's SHOF acceptance speech also included an empowering message for girls today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14UgOmgYrS4


Cindy’s goal is to give women in action sports the same opportunities and recognition as their male counterparts. She pursues that goal daily by interviewing and promoting female action sports athletes on her companies website http://www.girlisnota4letterword.com 

Cindy is the author of the book "It's Not About Pretty: A Book About Radical Skater Girls", published in February 2017. The 144-page hardback book is the first comprehensive photography book to be published on girls skateboarding. The book features 65 different skater girls skating pools, street, park, ramps, downhill, and soul skating. 


Girl is NOT a 4 Letter Word is a "Not For Profit" movement and we are proud to be fiscally sponsored by Skatepark Association International a 501c3 non-profit established in 2002. 

Please feel free to contact us for more information if you'd like to financially help our movement!