Bryce Wettstein competes in Women's Skateboard Park Final at Dew Tour 2019 in Long Beach, Calif. Photo Credit: Dangaard
FREE TICKET RESERVATIONS ARE NOW OPEN FOR DEW TOUR SKATEBOARD COMPETITION TO BE HELD MAY 20-23, 2021 IN DES MOINES, IOWA
2021 Summer Dew Tour Takes Center Stage at the New Lauridsen Skatepark;
Fans Welcomed Daily at Event in Limited Capacity with Required Pre-Reservation
(Carlsbad, Calif. ) April 27, 2021 -- The annual summer Dew Tour
skateboard competition and festival, to be held May 20-23, 2021 at the
brand new Lauridsen Skatepark in Des Moines, Iowa, has opened its ticketing portal via the Dew Tour website DewTour.com.
Dew
Tour, celebrating its 16th year and first in Des Moines, will include
World Skate sanctioned men’s and women’s skateboarding Street and Park
competitions, serving as the only U.S.-based global Olympic skateboard
qualifying events for 2021. Skateboarding will make its debut at the
Olympic Games this summer in Tokyo, which were rescheduled in 2020 for
July 23 - August 8, 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
More
than 300 of the world’s top male and female skateboarders will compete
in individual Park and Street events for a chance to win the Dew Tour
title, while earning valuable points toward their country’s Olympic
skateboarding team. As in the past, Dew Tour competitors exemplify the
best in each sport. Competition will take place at Lauridsen Skatepark,
an 88,000 square foot custom concrete skatepark built by renowned
builders California Skateparks.
TICKET DETAILS
Dew
Tour has always been a free event open to the public. This year, due to
the COVID-19 pandemic, the event will offer FREE tickets via the Dew Tour website.
To remain in compliance with state and local COVID guidelines, there
will be dedicated sessions/time slots per day for entry, and only one
reservation may be made per day, per person. No one may enter the venue
without a free ticket.
Reserving
free tickets will allow fans onto the public skate courses as well as
to first come, first served sectioned spectator viewing areas located on
the grassy bank, which will be separated into six-person pods. The time
slots will be enforced by colored wristbands as well as a team who will
be working within the spectator areas. Please visit DewTour.com for
all rules around seating areas.
Also
included in fans’ ticket access is the Dew Tour Experience, a
festival-style area that will be spread out throughout 2nd Avenue
between Center Street and School Street in Des Moines. The Dew Tour
Experience will offer a large, socially distanced and safe area for fans
to enjoy fun and free event partner activations.
Social
distancing and masks will be required in all areas of the venue. In
addition, a health questionnaire and COVID-19 release will be required
by everyone entering the venue.
Dew
Tour will be livestreamed in its entirety on DewTour.com, Facebook
Live, YouTube and other major platforms for a total of 25+ hours of LIVE
video. Additionally, more than four hours of Dew Tour coverage will
air on NBC and NBCSN this summer.
Stay updated at DewTour.comand on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube by following @DewTour.
About Dew Tour
Dew
Tour is an innovative contest series and content platform that brings
together the world’s best skateboarders, snowboarders, skiers, artists,
brands and fans in a celebration of creativity and style.
In
2016, the Adventure Sports Network (ASN), a part of Accelerate360’s
media portfolio, became the official strategic partner to lead content
production, execution and event staging for the Dew Tour. Working in
close collaboration with ASN’s core action sports media brands and in
partnership with DEW®, Dew Tour continues to progress events and
content, bringing millions of action sports fans engaging stories and
experiences across digital and broadcast mediums. In addition to
Dewtour.com and ASN’s digital network, Dew Tour’s summer and winter
events are telecast on NBC.
Meet Bombette Martin, a 14-year old skateboarder. Learn how she went
from a spectator to one of the top female skateboarders, looking to
skate her way to the Olympics in Tokyo.
Bombette just took 1st place in the UK Championships and will be competing at Olympic Qualifiers starting in May!
If you don't follow Haley Isaak on YouTube yet - you should. One of her recent videos taps into what she feels like being a female skater at the skatepark.
Most of us have experienced a lot of what she talks about. Just remember - everyone starts somewhere and you have just as much right to be at the park skating as the boys do - don't let a weird vibe or comments push you away.
1 Poe Pinson 2 Mariah Duran 3 Samarria Brevard 4 Meagan Guy 5 Jordan Pascale 6 Kendra Long 7 Christiana Smith 8 Paige Heyn 9 Jamie Kutcher 10 Celina Meehan 11 Shiloh Thornton 12 Jaelyn Sedeno 13 Kay Hensley 14 Emma Fischbeck 15 Briel Weingartner 16 Lillian Erickson 17 Alyssa Hanson 18 Mathilda Kotsonis
The 2021 USA Skateboarding National Championships presented by Toyota, will award Olympic Qualifying points to 32 American skateboarders (8 finalists in each discipline) and crown four national champions next month!
After receiving hundreds of entries from all over the country, here are your semifinalists in Men's and Women's Park Skateboarding.
These skaters' :45 Semifinals video submissions are due April 26, and the Finalists will be announced on Wednesday, April 28.
The Park Finals will take place LIVE at California Skateparks TF on May 8 & 9
Great to see this spread in the May 2021 issue of British Vogue featuring skateboarders Briana King and Stephanie Wise, along with model Julia Nobis - shot at Venice Beach & skatepark.
Margie’s story is an incredible one. From starting out skating around the densely packed streets of Cebu city in the Philippines aged just 12, she has enjoyed a stratospheric rise and in so doing she has raised the profile of skate culture not just in her home country but the entire region.
Contest victories at the Asian and Southeast Asian games in 2018 and 2019 respectively turned Margie into something of a national hero- even as Cebu’s only skatepark, ‘Concave’, was closing down. Forced to practice at the picturesque but limited terrain underneath the Pahara bridge in neighboring Mandaue,
Margie’s ability to work on new moves was then further curtailed by the 2020 global pandemic which forced many Asian cities into total lockdowns.
Her solution was to build a small private training facility where she could dial in her technique with a view to setting the global women’s contest circuit alight.
The plan is to use her new profile in a country which idolizes sporting heroes to create a permanent indoor public skatepark in order to nourish that groundswell of interest in skating which her success has helped create. All this, it might be added, before even her 21st birthday.
To celebrate that occasion, Margie allowed Red Bull to swing by and check out her training facility, where they took the opportunity to catch up with her about the twists and turns of her life story right up to this very unusual juncture in time.
USA National Team member for Women's Park Skateboarding, Jordyn Barratt, showed off the new Team USA Olympic Closing Ceremony uniform designed by Ralph Lauren. Jordyn also appeared on the TODAY Show modeling the new RL uniforms along with USA teammate Heimana Reyonolds.
USA National Team member for Women's Street Skateboarding, Alexis Sablone, appeared on The Today Show showing hosts Hoda and Jenna how to skateboard. These ladies had no skateboard skills, yet Alexis has the ladies up and skating pretty quickly!
USA National Team member for Women's Park Skateboarding, Brighton Zeuner, was featured in an extensive article on Elite Daily - read it all HERE
Last but not least, USA Team Member for Women's Park, Jordan Santana, was featured in a HUGE article in the Sunday edition of the Houston Chronicle! See more from this article HERE
For the first time in Olympic history, skateboarding will make its debut at the
2020 (now 2021) Tokyo Olympic Games with the addition of Men’s and Women's Park and Street Skateboarding disciplines. With the support of Toyota and sponsors Nike SB, Jessup Griptape, ProTec Helmets, USA Skateboarding (USAS) introduces the 2021 USA Skateboarding National Team.
Vista, Calif. (April 14, 2021) — Together with Toyota and sponsors Nike SB, Tech Deck, Jessup Griptape and ProTec Helmets, USA Skateboarding—the U.S. governing body for skateboarding—announced the 22 members of the 2021 USA Skateboarding National Team. The national team skateboarders qualified based on performance in international-level and national championships events during the Olympic Skateboarding qualifying process that began in 2019. The national team will receive resources and support from the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) and USA Skateboarding on their journey to qualify for the Tokyo Games — the official Olympic Skateboarding team will be named in July following the conclusion of the qualification process.
“The national team announcements are one of our most fun events of the year,” said Josh Friedberg, CEO, USA Skateboarding. “The chance to gather as a team to celebrate all of our skaters’ accomplishments is especially meaningful this year as they gear up for the most important stretch of Olympic Qualifying ahead of skateboarding’s Olympic debut in Tokyo this July.”
Dedra DeLilli, group manager, sponsorship, integration, & auto shows, Toyota Motor North America said: “As a proud partner of USA Skateboarding, we excitedly congratulate all the athletes who were named to the 2021 USA Skateboarding National Team, including our own Team Toyota athlete, Jordyn Barratt. We wish them all the best of luck at the remaining Olympic qualifying events and look forward to their continued success in their journey to the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.”
The skaters named to the 2021 USA Skateboarding National Team include:
Women’s Park
Arianna Carmona (Buena Park, CA) ,
Brighton Zeuner (Encinitas, CA)
,
Bryce Wettstein (Encinitas, CA),
Jordan Santana (Houston, TX),
Jordyn Barratt (Haleiwa, HI),
Minna Stess (Petaluma, CA)
Women’s Street
Alana Smith (Mesa, AZ),
Alexis Sablone (Old Saybrook, CT),
Mariah Duran (Albuquerque, NM),
Samarria Brevard (Riverside, CA)
Men’s Park
Alex Sorgente (Lake Worth, FL), Cory Juneau (San Diego, CA),
Heimana Reynolds (Honolulu, HI),
Jagger Eaton (Mesa, AZ),
Tom Schaar (Malibu, CA) ,
Tristan Rennie (Rialto, CA),
Men’s Street
Dashawn Jordan (Chandler, AZ),
Jake Ilardi (Osprey, FL),
Jamie Foy (Deerfield Beach, FL),
Louie Lopez (Hawthorne, CA),
Maurio McCoy (Reading, PA),
Nyjah Huston (Laguna Beach, CA),
Skateboarders will have the opportunity to qualify for the Olympics based on their results in World Skate sanctioned events during two seasons of Olympic qualifying. The first season began in 2019, qualifying was put on pause in 2020, and resumes again with the 2021 USA Skateboarding National Championships presented by Toyota — May 6-9, 2021.
This special takes you through USA Skateboarding's journey to the Tokyo Olympics - from the pandemic that shut the world down, to the announcement that the 2021 Olympics will happen!
July 25—the day skateboarding was set to make its NBC primetime debut on the biggest stage in sport—the Tokyo Olympic Games. But 2020 had other plans. Skateboarding is more than any single competition—it’s our lives and a way to change the world. Skateboarders embody an incredible, unwavering ability to adapt and persevere—it's in our DNA. And this time it’s no different.
00:00 - Segment 1
Program Tease / Show Open
History of Skateboarding
Olympic Event Overview
05:42 - Segment 2 - 2019 National Team Announcement
2019 - Olympic Qualifying Event Recaps
Jordyn Barratt Feature
18:36 - Segment 4
Street Skateboarding Overview
Mariah Duran Feature
Nyjah Huston Feature
25:06 - Segment 5
2019 National Championships / Adaptive Skateboarding
2020 National Team Announcement
Oi STU Brazil
Season Two Qualifying Cancellations Begin
32:36 - Segment 6
Pandemic / Olympics Postponed
Social Justice Feature
Samarria Brevard / Dr. Neftalie Williams
39:45 - Segment 7
Olympic Qualifying On Pause / Skateboarding Flourishes
2020 Team Activity Recap
Olympic Inclusion Benefits / Close / Credits
WATCH THE VIDEO FOR GREAT INFO ON SUBMITTING YOUR VIDEO!
If you haven't already - make sure you read the COMPLETE instructions below on how to post and submit your video!
** Helmets are required in both street and park submissions if you are under 18!
#1 Join USA Skateboarding - via its new membership program!!
The national championships are free to enter this year,
however you have to be a member of USA Skateboarding to participate.
Memberships are $49 for minors and $79 for adults. You can begin your
registration process by purchasing your membership here.
All USA Skateboarding athlete memberships purchased before April 15th, 2021 include:
Free entry into one discipline of the 2021 USA Skateboarding National Championships presented by Toyota, a $49 value
A $25 gift card to the USA Skateboarding online shop
A background check (required for membership if you're 18 or over), a $30 pass-through expense
After
you complete your purchase you'll be sent an email with instructions on
how to complete the registration process and claim your National
Championships entry.
After you've completed your registration then:
1. Post your run to social media and tag #usaskateboarding #usasbnc – must be publicly viewable, non-private profile
2. Complete
your registration by submitting the link to your run – form will be
provided by USA Skateboarding once your membership information is
verified
Stay tuned for the judging of the open qualifying rounds beginning April 16 – good luck!
Watch closely, and you'll see a badass clip of a then eight-year-old Minna Stess (who is currently on the USA National Team for Women's Park Skateboarding) dropping into the Mega Ramp in this just-released commercial for Telenet titled "Ready for Tomorrow."
We always love seeing Lizzie Armanto in videos but it's even more special when we get to see our own Girl is NOT a 4 Letter Word team rider, Quinne Daniels, playing Lizzie as a child!
Taka Higashino, Clayton Vila, and Lizzie Armanto don't seem all that similar at first glance. Sure, they are professional athletes on the Monster Energy roster, but in completely different places. However, they did share one thing when they were young:
Where they grew up was not conductive to their dreams.
This film follows these three as seven-year-old kids on all sides of the planet as they become infatuated with their action sport for the first time. The problem? Clayton lives on a tiny island with no ski mountains in sight, Taka is from Osaka, Japan where FMX is nowhere near a commonality, and Lizzie lives in a society where seeing a girl at the skatepark was considered cute at-best. But none of them seemed to even noticed - they were completely obsessed. And in time, they started to show real talent.
This short story is a call to action to anyone who notices talent and determination at an early age. Whether you just give them some props at the local skatepark, or you risk it all shipping your kid off to a program, to pursue their dreams, your support and encouragement is paramount to a child turning young talent into world-class athletic success.
Monsters are hiding everywhere. Help us find them.
Leticia
Bufoni held the #1 rank in Women’s Street Skateboarder by World Cup
Skate for four years (2010 - 2013) and appeared in the Guinness Book of
World Records for
Five time X Games Gold Medallist and SLS Super Crown champion Leticia
Bufoni will be representing her home country Brazil in the upcoming
Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.
Left: Park course & Right: Street course. *Course design may be subject to change
Press Release via World Skate: The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and
Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) today unveiled the designs of the courses
for skateboarding events, which will be featured at the Tokyo 2020
Games for the first time in Olympic history. Construction of the
courses, which will be located in Ariake Urban Sports Park in the
stunning waterfront area close to the Olympic Village, will be completed
in early May.
There will be two types of skateboarding event at the Tokyo 2020
Games: "Street", in which skateboarders compete on a course that
resembles a city street, and "Park", in which they compete on a
hollowed-out course featuring a series of complicated curves. The judges
will evaluate the difficulty, height and speed of the tricks, including
jumps and body rotations, performed by the skateboarders while in
mid-air.
Park course. *Course design may be subject to change
The Tokyo 2020 skateboarding courses are a
culmination of the designs and experiences derived from a number of
world championships. Each course will be about 1.5 - to 2 times the size
of a standard competition course, allowing full use during each
athlete's time on standby. Both the "Street" and "Park" courses have
been designed with equality in mind, supporting a smooth skate for
competitors of any stance (regular or goofy) and any gender.
The design of the Tokyo 2020 skateboarding courses was overseen by Mr. Joe Ciaglia and the construction by Mr. Bill Minadeo.
Mr. Ciaglia commented, “The design for the Skateboarding Street and
Park Courses at the Tokyo 2020 Games is intended to far exceed anything
that has ever been built for professional skateboarding competition.
Each of the custom concrete courses was meticulously designed to give
skateboard athletes the ability to maximize their own creativity, flow,
speed, amplitude, technicality, and variety. The layout of the skate
features is also driven by the Olympic competition format and the goal
of providing skateboard athletes from all over the world the terrain
necessary to achieve their own personal best and to help advance
skateboarding into the future.”
Tokyo 2020 Games Skateboarding Competition Schedule
・ Sunday 25 and Monday 26 July 2021 - Street (men’s, women’s)
・ Wednesday 4 and Thursday 5 August 2021 - Park (men’s, women’s)
Street course. *Course design may be subject to change
NISHIKAWA Takashi - director of Tokyo 2020 Japan Skateboarding Team
Park course: The course is one
size larger and more complicated than the existing international
competitions. Air at a height of 2.95m in the deep zone is one of the
highlights of the contest. There is also no doubt that the compound
sections (round and volcano) located in the course centre will increase
the difficulty of the course and will have a significant impact on the
skateboard's scoring in terms of difficulty, height, speed and style
depending on how it is used. Particularly, how to use a particularly
large volcano? Use it as a hip or jump over it? It's a section that will
excite both the skaters and the spectators on how to use it. It is
possible to show unique tricks with the section with round rails on the
flat bank and the square rails on the rounded part. Since the course is
particularly wide, such as the various hip sections (where the banks
overlap diagonally), the key point is to increase the difficulty and
slide through the complex sections at high speed.
Street course: Compared to existing domestic and
international contests, the point is how to leverage the sections
arranged symmetrically on the left and right, with tall rails, long
rails, and ledges with different lengths and heights. There is plenty of
flat space when entering the section, and the course is designed to be
very easy to start skating. In the first half run of the contest, the
point is how fast the skateboarder can slide through the entire section
and put in a lot of tricks. The main section in the centre also has tall
square rails, round rails, rails from the pop-out bank, etc., and in
the best tricks in the latter half of the contest, how to make difficult
tricks here will be a key point.
This should help get you through the work/school week - Nora's "Rendezvous" OJ Wheels part. Not sure how we missed this drop, but it's here now and it's a good one!
Vague Magazine has released a video documentary by Andy Evans with one of the raddest UK female skaters around, Lucy Adams.
Lucy has killed it for as long as we can remember and has been and still is a huge inspiration in the UK scene.
Vague Magazine also interviewed Lucy and Andy on the making of this brilliant piece which you can read in full via the link below. They discuss the filming process, Lucy's favorites, her family, stand out moments while filming this documentary and much more!
The video was filmed over two years between 2018 - 2020 in and around West Sussex with archival footage used from 2000 onwards. It features interviews with Lucy's Mum Wendy, Lucy's wife Emily, Lovenskate's Stuart Smith, Lucy's bestie Lex Kembery and the OG Crawley hero Trev Wedd. Big up to Andy Evans' for putting this all together too!
Filmed & Edited by: Andy Evans
Cover Photo: John Cyruss
Supported by: Lovenskate, CHPO Brand & Thunder Trucks.
Watch the awesome video above, and then read the Lucy Adams - A Metre of Air Interview HERE
We're featured on VENICE PAPARAZZI this week! They did a rad interview with GN4LW founder and '70s pro skater, Cindy Whitehead, about the OG days of skateboarding and what Girl is NOT a 4 Letter Word's mission is today.
We appreciate all the love and support and hope you will jump on over to their site and check out the full interview HERE.
💗 Spoiler alert! More OG skate photos on the Venice Paparazzi site! 💗
Amelia announced on Instagram just hours ago that her Amelia Brodka Pro Model is dropping with Arbor Skateboards! And you can catch her in the new Arbor ad in this months issue of Thrasher Magazine as well!
Beatrice Domond's effortless style and cool intensity has made her one
of skateboarding most interesting figures. As the first female signed to
Supreme, Beatrice is breaking ground, then paving the way for a
generation of skateboarders behind her.
Get ready because this coming weekend (Saturday, April 3rd) is a local contest (if you live near Los Angeles/Ventura/Santa Barbara County) you don't want to miss this chance to finally get out and compete.
It's the Santa Paula Slamna - a street contest for guys and girls taking place at the Santa Paula Skatepark.It should be a great day to get out and skate with friends and win some fun prizes from the sponsors listed on the flyer.
DETAILS:
Santa Paula Skatepark, 110 S. 10th street, Santa Paula, CA
Saturday, April 3rd from 11 AM - 2 PM
** $5 donation or volunteer to set up or clean up duty**
A note from GN4LW: PLEASE REMEMBER TO SOCIAL DISTANCE AND WEAR A MASK
