Image of Arisa Trew by Chris Tedesco X Games

Watch the women skate live at X Games Ventura via YouTube or Twitch!

Fri., June 28 EVENT SCHEDULE

Women’s Skateboard Park Elimination: 10am PT |  1pm ET

Women’s Skateboard Street Elimination: 11:15am PT |  2:15pm ET

Sat., June 29 EVENT SCHEDULE

Monster Energy Women’s Skateboard Street: 10:15am PT | 1:15pm ET

Monster Energy Women’s Skateboard Street Best Trick: 3:15pm PT | 6:15pm ET

Pacifico Women’s Skateboard Vert Best Trick: 4pm PT | 7pm ET

Sun., June 30 EVENT SCHEDULE

SONIC Women’s Skateboard Park: 10:15am PT | 1:15pm ET

Women’s Skateboard Vert: 1:15pm PT | 4:15pm ET

Photo Lauren Brooke

What a weekend! I think everyone was watching women’s skateboarding and the last QS in Budapest to find out which 22 women made the finals in women’s park skateboarding. I know that we were glued to our couch watching qualifiers, semi-finals, and finals! There were a lot of “holding your breath” moments throughout. With six Americans vying for just three spots (no alternates!), it was a showdown.

Photo Lauren Brooke

At the end of the weekend, it came down to Minna Stess, along with Bryce Wettstein and Ruby Lilley, who punched that Olympic ticket for Paris! Congratulations to these women as they move forward in representing the USA in Women’s Park Skateboarding!

Big congrats Minna - we are so stoked for you!!

Photo Lauren Brooke

All photos by Ian Logan x Girl is NOT a 4 Letter Word

When we heard that AU team rider Mia Kretzer was flying into LAX to skate at Tony Hawk’s Vert Alert (special invite!) we knew we had to get some of the girls together to meetup with Mia right after she landed.

What a day Mazel, Brooke and Quinne had - finally meeting up with their AU skate sister after years of connecting via Instagram - it was like they were already best friends immediately.

It was a fun morning of skateboarding at the iconic Venice Skatepark, breakfast on the boardwalk and giving the girls packages from the Palace Gap collection - which they loved!

Mia went on to Utah and killed it at Vert Alert - at just 9 years old Mia earned a spot at X Games Ventura this coming weekend in Women’s Vert - so stay tuned and cheer her on!

Huge thanks to Gap for supporting Girl is NOT a 4 Letter Word with a grant and for flowing or team riders apparel from the Palace Gap collection!

This was a Women’s Skateboard Park final like no other! This final event in the Olympic Qualifying Series, decided who would represent their country at the Paris 2024 Olympics, so there was a lot on the line. We are not going to give away the podium results for the finals, as you really need to watch it all go down!

Unapologetically herself. This is Lizzie Armanto. From the Cove in Santa Monica to the pages of Vogue, Lizzie continues to be one of the most influential and inspirational female skaters in the world. Mixing style and elegance - there's no one out here doing it like she is. We're really witnesses of the greatness that is Lizzie.

Image via World Skate SB Instagram

Get ready because this is the last QS for skateboarding before the Olympic Team is named! This contest decides who makes the cut and who sadly, does not. There is a lot riding on this last event - so you don’t want to miss it!

Make sure you watch the battle between park skater, Arisa Trew from AU and the Japanese skaters - Arisa won the last QS, will she win this one too? Rumor is that Sky Brown will be back from her injury and competing again - it’s been quite awhile since we have seen her at a qualifier. How will she hold up now that Arisa has the 900?

The USA women’s park skaters will be battling it out for the top three spots to go to Paris.

Right now the standings for USA Women’s Park look like this:

1. Bryce Wettstein

2. Minna Stess

3. Ruby Lilley

4. Grace Marhoefer

5. Jordyn Barratt

6. Lilly Erickson

HOW TO WATCH LIVE!!

You can watch all the action from OQS in Shanghai live on Olympic Channel via Olympics.com and the official Olympics app for mobile devices.

The times are displayed in Pacific Time

Thursday 20 June

• 2:40 AM PT - Skateboarding - Women's Park - Prelims

Friday June 21

• 7:25 AM PT Skateboarding - Women’s Street Prelims

Saturday 22 June

• 12:15 AM PT - Skateboarding - Women's Park - Semi-final

• 7:55 AM PT - Skateboarding - Women’s Street Semi Final

Sunday 23 June

• 1:30 AM PT- Skateboarding - Women's Park - Finals

• 8:00 AM PT- Skateboarding - Women’s Street Final

Sky Brown is back and this time her new Nike SB show is dropping. You don’t have to wait long as it drops in select skate shops and Nike.com this Friday, June 14.

Read more about Sky and this new shoe HERE

Filmed and Edited by Ty Evans

Red’s barn, Washington Street and Mammoth have all leveled their fair share of seasoned pros, but Ruby handles the heaviest terrain with absolute authority. Mami and Lizzie bring the backup in this stunning show.

Get ready for some serious inspiration!

Our badass friend and Skateboarding Hall of Fame Inductee, Judi Oyama, shares with AARP how she became a pioneer for women in the sport and continues to compete in slalom for Team USA.

Judi has been invited to compete in Rome at Worlds - so stay tuned!

Real life sucks, but it doesn’t have to. Pick up a skateboard and transport yourself to a much better reality. Toy machine skateboard video #10 can help you transition from a sucky existence to an incredible one.

Directed and Edited by Don Luong

Starring - Jeremy Leabres, Georgia Martin, Myles Willard, Axel Cruysberghs, Shiloh Catori and Braden Hoban. With appearances from the rest of the team!

** It should also be noted that Georgia Martin just went pro for Toy Machine!! Get it Georgia!!

All photos Anthony Acosta

Costa Mesa, CALIF. (May 30, 2024) – Vans Global Skateboarder Arisa Trew is making history in skateboarding. In 2023, she shattered barriers by becoming the first woman to land a 720 on a skateboard and then the first to perform the trick in a competition run, clinching the Women's Skateboard Vert gold at X Games California 2023. The next day, she added another feather to her cap by winning the Women's Skateboard Park Gold, making her the youngest X Games double gold medalist at 13. These remarkable achievements led to her being honored with the 2024 Laureus World Sports Award for Action Sports Person of the Year. Following the award, Arisa became the first woman to land a Switch 540. Now, she's taking Skateboarding to even greater heights by becoming the first female to land a 900, a feat accomplished 25 years after Tony Hawk's groundbreaking achievement.

“I was in so much shock when I landed the 900; it’s been a dream of mine since I made my first 540. It’s just awesome pushing women’s skateboarding,” said Arisa Trew.

Congratulations to Arisa for her unwavering determination in pushing skateboarding forward, a testament to her relentless pursuit of progression that continues to inspire future generations.

Check out Girl is NOT a 4 Letter Word team rider ,Mayzie Feher, shredding at Venice Skatepark in this new ad for Belkin Nano 2 Wireless Earbuds. We love it when we see our team riders in these ads and commercials!

Congrats Mayzie!!

Check out the full article on Girl is NOT a 4 Letter Word team rider Minna Stess in TEEN VOGUE!

Louise-Aïna Taboulet photographed by Marili-Ande for Dior

Dior has come out of the Olympic gate flying high! The French fashion power-house has paired up with fifteen female athletes to represent Dior in a stunning ad campaign in advance of the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games.

French skateboarder Louise-Aïna Taboulet, who is currently #1 in the Women’s Park standings for France, was chosen by Dior as their ambassador to represent skateboarding.

The photo series, will be displayed at Le Café Dior in La Galerie Dior in Paris from July 24 to September 9, 2024.

All photos by Ian Logan x Girl is NOT a 4 Letter Word

We joined forces with our amazing friends from Bridge to Skate and had a blast at the South Los Angeles Station Youth Activities League Center (complete with a private skatepark!). Our girl is NOT a 4 Letter Word team riders Mazel Alegado, Mayzie Feher, Brooke Benton, and Quinne Daniels brought a truckload of new and gently used skate gear to donate. They spent the afternoon showing young girls (and boys) the ropes, from the basics to dropping in.

Our team riders shared their inspiring stories with the kids. They spoke about their lives as competitive skateboarders, their dreams of competing at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, and the hard work they put in both at school and in the skatepark to turn those dreams into reality.

The May issue of Scholastic Magazine features team rider Mazel on the cover and has a three-page story about her personal journey in skateboarding. We are so grateful to Scholastic Magazine for sending us enough copies of the issue to pass out to every child in the program. All four team riders signed the magazines and personally handed them out. After that, it was time to skate!

After a teaching session, the kids were ready to see a demo, and these rad girls did not disappoint! They skated hard, answered questions, did tricks that the kids asked to see and kept the momentum going.

Huge thanks to Gap for supporting Girl is NOT a 4 Letter Word with a grant and for donating tee shirts and hats from the Palace Gap collection that we were able to give to these new and enthusiastic young skateboarders!

I had a chance to sit down with my good friend Danna Black and speak with the guys behind Vision Street Wear China and talk about what it was like back in the day to work with VSW to bring their iconic styles into mainstream fashion. Vision was one of the first skate companies to go from core skateboarding to the public wanting it just as much as the pro skaters did. The designs were epic and and coveted to this day!

It came down to the wire in Shanghai but Australia's Arisa Trew came out on top at the first stop of the Olympic Qualifier Series. Watch her second run to see some seriously badass tricks in a run that would not quit!

Make sure to stay tuned for the next stop in Budapest from June 20-23!

The women’s Park semi-finals from Shanghai were a nail biter! We are not going to give away anything here. Except that FIVE out of SIX USA women made it into the semi’s. Minna Stess, Jordyn Barrett, Bryce Wettstein, Grace Marhoefer, and Ruby Lilley. Just tune in above and watch it go down.

Tomorrow we will have the women’s finals posted to watch as well, so stay tuned!

Get Ready!

There are only TWO more stops for the top 44 skaters in the world before the Olympic teams are selected. Currently there are six USA Women in the mix for Park, and four USA women in the mix for street.

May 16-19 is when the first (of two) Paris Olympic Qualifier Series event takes place in Shanghai, People's Republic of China, from 16-19 May.

After Shanghai, the Budapest event will take place from June 20-24

How many skateboarders from each country get to go to Paris?

Each of the four events—Men’s Park, Women’s Park, Men’s Street, and Women’s Street—will feature 22 athletes in Paris, for a total of 88 skateboarding athletes overall.

On 24 June 2024, the skateboarders ranked in the top spots in these rankings will obtain quota spots for Paris 2024. A maximum of three athletes from each National Olympic Committee (NOC) may qualify for each event: So each Olympic team could feature, at most, three men and three women each in street and park, for a total possible squad of 12 skateboarders. Each continent is allotted at least one athlete.

As National Olympic Committees have the exclusive authority for the representation of their respective teams at the Olympic Games, athletes' participation at Paris 2024 depends on their NOC selecting them to represent their delegation.

The points on offer at OQS - a two-part qualifying series - will be worth much more than what was previously offered in phase one meaning no one in their current ranking is safe.

Skaters will have their points from part one, with their points from Shanghai and Budapest (the second stop for OQS) combined to form an official ranking from which the final field for Paris 2024 will be decided.

Here’s when to watch the Olympic Qualifier Series Shanghai

You can watch all the action from OQS in Shanghai live on Olympic Channel via Olympics.com and the official Olympics app for mobile devices.

Olympic Qualifier Series Shanghai:

• 16 May: Women’s Park Preliminary Round

• 17 May: Women’s Street Preliminary Round

• 18 May: Semifinals for all events

• 19 May: Finals for all events

Women (Park)

)Hiraki Kokona (JPN)

Kusaki Hinano (JPN)

Sky Brown (GBR)T

Naia Laso (ESP)

Yosozumi Sakura (JPN)

Minna Stess (USA)

Raicca Ventura (BRA)

Ruby Trew (AUS)

Bryce Wettstein (USA)

Lilly Stoephasius (GER)

Arisa Trew (AUS)

Ruby Lilley (USA)

Lola Tambling (GBR)

Dora Varella (BRA)

Grace Marhoefer (USA)

Yndiara Asp (BRA)

Hasegawa Mizuho (JPN)

Jordyn Barratt (USA)

Lillian Erickson (USA)

Isadora Pacheco (BRA)

Sugawara Mei (JPN)

Cho Hyunju (KOR)

Nakamura Kisa (JPN)

Emilie Alexandre (FRA)

Heili Sirvio (FIN)

Fay Ebert (CAN)

Julia Benedetti (ESP)

Poppy Starr (AUS)

Charlotte Heath (AUS

)Nana Taboulet (FRA)

Gadea Moja (ESP)

Lilly Strachan (GBR)

Aaliyah Wilson (AUS)

Coco Crafter (AUS)

Li Yujuan (CHN)

Hedda Hjertberg (SWE)

Zheng Haohao (CHN)

)Victoria Bassi (BRA)

Lucrezia Zarattini (ITA)

Madeleine Larcheron (FRA)

Fernanda Tonissi (BRA)

)Ceci Rendueles (ESP)

Alisa Fessi (AUT)

Aya Asaqas (MAR)

Women (Street)

Nishiya Momiji (JPN)

)Rayssa Leal (BRA)

Oda Yumeka (JPN)

Chloe Covell (AUS)

Akama Liz (JPN)

)Nakayama Funa (JPN)

Yoshizawa Coco (JPN)

Pamela Rosa (BRA)

IIto Miyu (JPN)

Paige Heyn (USA)

Gabi Mazetto (BRA)

Roos Zwetsloot (NED)

Cui Chenxi (CHN)

Daniela Terol (ESP)

Liv Lovelace (AUS)

Keet Oldenbeuving (NED)

Haylie Powell (AUS)

Zeng Wenhui (CHN)

Natalia Munoz (ESP)

Mariah Duran (USA)

Lucie Schoonheere (FRA)

Lore Bruggeman (BEL)

Jazmin Alvarez (COL)

Poe Pinson (USA)

Candy Jacobs (NED)

Charlotte Hym (FRA)

Felicity Turner (AUS)

Ha Siye (KOR)

Kemily Suiara (BRA)

Zhang Yan (CHN)

Zhu Yuanling (CHN)

Isabelly Avila (BRA)

Jessica Ready (NZL)

Afrika Criado Oliva (ESP)

Aldana Bertran (ARG)

Jeromine Lourvet (FRA)

Samantha Secours (CAN)

Vareeraya Sukasem (THA)

Lan Junyi (CHN)

Ailin Arzua (ARG)

Meagan Guy (USA)

Marina Gabriela (BRA)

Weronika Choromanska (POL)

Boipelo Awuah (RSA)

"Now this is a skateboard"

Hop in on the sessions with the Powell-Peralta squad.

Make sure you keep an eye out for our Girl is NOT a 4 Letter Word team rider Mazel Alegado at the 5:57 mark. It’s rare that a female skater gets into one of these videos, and she's ten-years-old!

GO MAZEL!