Monday 26th May will see a girls only session at Motion Ramps in Bristol from 7pm – 9pm.
Hosted by Rokeo, there will be safety equipment to hire, just bring along a board!
All ages and abilities welcome. It will cost just £3.50 for the 2 hour session and some informal coaching will be available should you need it!
Address:
Motion Ramps Skatepark
74 – 78 Avon Street,
Bristol, UK
BS2 0PX
We are absolutely loving these stylish photos of female shredders from the 1970’s ‘Golden Era’ of skateboarding. Skaters include Laura Thornhill, Kim Cespedes, Ellen O Neal, Patti Mcgee & Vicky Vickers. These girls just ooze cool.
If you were a skater way back when and have any photos, videos or news clippings that you’d like to share with us, then shoot us an e-mail to girlskateuk@gmail.com, we would LOVE to hear from you!
Photos courtesy of Jim Goodrich, James O’Mahoney & Laura Thornhill.
Unfortunately we weren’t able to credit all of the photographers, but if you know who took these then please let us know so we can!
Ladies of Gloucestershire! TOMORROW NIGHT – FRIDAY 8th MAY will see a girls only session at Rush Skatepark in Stroud from 6:30pm until 9:30pm for £10, all ages and abilities welcome!
Contact:
Rush Skatepark
Tel: 01453 889457
Info@rushskatepark.co.uk
Unit 3 Brimscombe Port,
Port Lane, Brimscombe,
Stroud, Gloucestershire
GL5 2QQ
Tomorrow at 7:30-10:30pm at Bay Sixty6 on Acklam Road in London.
All ages & abilities, come down for a shred!
Last month saw a controversial article by Marie Claires Nellie Eden on the opening night of the HTC skatepark on the very fashionable Oxford Street. The article caused an uproar from guys & gals alike and within 20 minutes of posting our ‘Sort it Out, Marie Claire’ article, the original text was taken down from their website.
In an open letter, Lucy Adams addresses Nellie Eden directly, and questions the type of role model that Marie Claire are proposing to their readers.
The letter is quite long, and you should go read the full text over on the crossfire site, but you can read a couple of snippets below…
“During a week’s break abroad, I tapped into the world wide web one day and was bombarded with SM notifications, texts and emails about an article that Nellie Eden had posted on the Marie Claire website. Being late to the party, I was unable to read Nellie’s instructions on how to dress and behave in order to pick up ones hot, single skater date, as it had already been removed from the MC site, but I got the general gist that the feature had caused a bit of a stir. Having read the article on my return, Crossfire asked me to put across my point of view
If I was one of the young and impressionable girls that make up MC’s readership I might have read this nonsense and missed out on the opportunity to try an activity that has led me to travel the world, meet lifelong friends and improve my fitness, health and well being! Explicitly telling young females not to try skateboarding?!
It is the perfect time to be celebrating and encouraging women’s participation in sport what with the success stories from 2012 and more recently with a British female snowboarder making the front pages of the daily newspapers!
So Nellie, you’re welcome to our ankle swingers and sportswear brand skate shoes. You can have our bucket hats and £80 hoodies. You can even have our plaid shirts and weed leaf socks, but don’t, whatever you do, try to dissuade young female girls to try something positive. It’s something that will help them experience rad times like never before. If you’re a girl skater, or you are a girl who is interested in becoming a skateboarder, or even if you just know a girl who wants to skate, then encourage them to try new things, especially skateboarding – Lucy Adams.”
The recent Cooler article ‘Should Mums Stay out of the Skatepark?’ has got us thinking. Written by the mags own Editor, Sam Haddad, as she reminisces on her golden years and times gone by.
Sam speaks of her worries with dusting off her old deck and hitting the parks now that she is a mother…
“The parent thing isn’t because I’m more scared of getting hurt nor is it about being worried about what people think.
It’s more that I’m weary of tainting the skatepark space with my unhipness; making it a place that kids don’t want to play and depriving them of skateboarding, this really awesome thing.”
We can totally see where Sam is coming from, after all, most of us weren’t into the things our parents were at the time either. But this is skateboarding. Skateboarding couldn’t ever be uncool to those who have ever loved it, could it?
Since starting up our Instagram account, we have been amazed at just how many super cool Mums & Dads there around the UK! We know loads of kids who love to go skating with their parents (it’s way easier to persuade you to take them to rad skateparks all day!)
Take 7yr old Hannah Maxwell and her parents, Max & Mandy…
Max started skating maybe 5 yrs ago, and only AFTER his two sons had started. He figured that he was spending a lot of time at skateparks with his home-schooled children, why not make the most of his time there? Now, earlier this year, Mandy along with her older sister have taken up the addictive pastime! Hannah, her older brothers Isaac & Seth, and little sister Martha, absolutely LOVE that they have two skateboarding parents!
They get to spend real quality time together as a family doing something that they all love.
What’s cooler than that?
So, we think that you should let that skateboard of yours see a bit more sunshine Sam, don’t worry about making it uncool or unhip, because you couldn’t possibly!
The next sunny day just grab your kids, grab your board and enjoy skating for what it is, and never forget that feeling of the wind in your hair as your dog dragged you through the outskirts of London, husky sledge-stylee!
Read Sams article at http://cooler.mpora.com/features/should-mums-stay-out-of-the-skatepark.html#HbHPImuoekyf500c.99
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