Jenna Selby has been signed up to New York company Chicken Switch. The sponsorship by the coffee brand is in response to her work as a skate photographer and filmer promoting female riders over the past 15 years.
The team includes skate legend John Cardiel, New York based filmed photographer Richard Quintero and X-Games snowboarder Meg Pugh amongst others.
Chicken Switch is a company who donates 5% of its sales to nonprofit work directly related with building a communities health, independence, and confidence. Each season they work with a different nonprofit individual that needs help and support in their project. Their ethos is about remaining passionate and helping others.
We are super stoked to be involved in the Nike SB Girls Only Christmas Skate Jam at Bay Sixty6 Skatepark in London next month.
The event will take place of the regular monthly girls session kicking off a little earlier at 7pm.
Lucy Adams & Shelley-Georgia Yates are on the mic to throw out presents for tricks and we’ve got our own prize for the best/worst! christmas jumper… so get digging out all of those awful knitted gifts from yer Gran!
We’ve got some amazing skaters coming along so bring some friends as spectators get in free!
Boards and safety gear are available to hire, as well as some light coaching if prior arrangements are made, (there are contact details in the press release below for this).
Props to Miss Helena Long for the poster design!
Read the Official Press Release:
“5th December Nike SB BaySixty6 skatepark will be hosting The Girls Only Christmas Skate Jam, in association with Girl Skate UK.
With some of the UK’s most progressive female skaters taking part including Lucy Adams, Josie Millard, Helena Long and Lois Pendlebury, London’s most iconic skate park will host London’s most important girls skate event of the year.
For those new to skateboarding, board and protective gear is available for free hire as well as instruction by arrangement.
Come and shred from 7-10pm where drinks and food will be available alongside a ‘Tricks for Christmas Presents’ jam on the mini ramp and street course for those taking their skating to the next level.
The night costs just £5 entry – spectators are free.
Don’t miss out on an evening of Christmas skate cheer with the girls.
After seeing this footage of Sky last month, we got in touch with her and sent over some questions for Dad to ask so we could get to know her a little better…
Watch our interview below to find out Sky’s favourite things, and what she wants to be when she grows up, with some ridiculous skateboarding thrown in!
After keeping us guessing all weekend the cat is well and truly out of the bag. Zoe Kings is the new rider added to the Rogue team, and released a welcome part earlier today.
Zoe, hailing from Bromsgrove, has been shredding for a few years now, but especially at this summers events, even taking first place at the Unicorn Jam at Mile End in September.
Click here or the still above to watch the welcome clip, filmed and edited by Rogues very own Jenna Selby.
We’ll look forward to seeing more from Zoe and the Rogue team in next years full length video ‘Days Like These’ – Keep an eye out for an exclusive interview with Zoe here very shortly!
Last week saw the Girl Skate UK x Rogue Skateboards x Rokeo Girls Skate event for this years Halloween Party. The all night jam kicked off in St Albans at 9pm at Pioneer, the oldest skatepark in the UK, and went on through the night.
Those in attendance were Rogue riders Jenna Selby, Georgie Winter and Dora Horvath, OG Skaters Laura Goh & Kerri Dennis, alongside some of the newer faces on the scene including Beth Kerins, Rokeos Rhiannon Searle & Lucy T, amongst others.
Everyone made a huge effort with their outfits (nice ghost costume, Beth!), our favourites were Georgies Dinosaur Onesie (She didn’t survive skating in it for very long… but we bet it came in handy sleeping in the cold skatepark!) Lauras dead German Frau outfit and Jennas Michael Jackson impersonation! But our winner of the night was little 5yr old Nina Julca-Agarwala, who came as a very convincing Skeleton Princess, complete with tiger helmet!
Georgie was pretty stoked to be official judicator of the Bake Off, which was won by Mist with her ‘Mud Pie’ that was so tasty, we did away with the ladle she brought along to eat it with and just dug our fingers straight in!
We’ve got to give some props to Jenna who clearly had the most decorative cake, complete with a topping of chocolate spiders and almond witch fingers stuffed inside. 10/10!
The funniest part of the night had to be the apple bobbing, although in hindsight it probably should’nt have been the first thing we kicked off with as everybody’s face paint just came off straight away! Sorry to Kim who, in her own words “semi drowned” trying to get one of those pesky apples…
Most of us grabbed what blankets we could find and the lucky ones shotgunned sofas around 3am, but it was 13yr old Lucy Tomlin who was the last lady standing in the skatepark, out skating all of us oldies!
We have some of the photos of the night from April Whitlow of Shove It Mag below, and some more soon from Jenna Selby up, so do check back! And don’t forget to watch the edit above! Check out #GSSBAKEOFF on instagram and twitter for some more pics and clips we caught on the night!
Don’t forget that THIS FRIDAY will see yet another girls night at Bay Sixty6 Skatepark in London (Acklam Road).
Ladies take over the skatepark from 7:30pm until 10pm, make sure you take some time out to test the new mini ramp! It definitely pays homage to the ramp that stood in its place before (for those of you that never got the chance to skate what was probably the best mini ramp in the country, this one’s pretty good too).
These nights are for girls ALL AGES AND ABILITIES and there are skateboards and safety equipment to hire if you don’t have your own! Hashtag your photos #BayGirlsNight so we can see what you all got up to.
Check out a video from Septembers Girl Night featuring Georgie Winter, Danni Gallacher, Becky Jaques, Wings Chan and more!
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