Bye-bye summer.  We will be going to our favorite indoor skateparks!  Also heard through the grapevine that there is a new indoor park in Gig Harbor, so maybe we will check that out.

What’s Ladies Nights you ask?  Basically getting the gals together to skate. If you don’t have gear, let us know and we will bring some gear for you.

We have worked it out with

• Bellevue Skatepark to have a girls only session on Sundays from 6-8pm, the cost is $5 with a membership.
• Skatebarn has hosted the longest running girls skate free night on Wednesdays, so we should all go and capitalize on it.
• On the 2nd Sundays of the month, we rent out Innerspace, so the cost is $5 to skate, and clinics are $15 for one person, $25 for 2, or $40 for a family of 4.

Get the word out about the Ladies Nights!

We also would love to get some new volunteers, so come skate and see what opportunities are available for you to help build Seattle’s girls skate scene!

Superstar volunteer Leah Eister-Hargrave is coordinating a Clothes Swap!

Clean out your closet and take home a new (to you) fall wardrobe!  Just in time for back to school!   Bring your gently used clothes, shoes, accessories, etc to swap.  Show up at 10:30am, swapping will start shortly thereafter.  Women and girls only, please!  Come mingle and have snacks with friends, and update your wardrobe all while benefiting Skate Like a Girl!

Entry is one bag of clothing (bring more if you did a super closet clear out! Leftover clothes will be donated to local organizations) + $20 per person, or $30 per family.  Cash or checks only please.

The event will take place on Sunday September 19 from 10:30am -12:30pm.

Location: University Heights Center (5031 University WAY NE, Seattle RM 109).

Bring all your friends!

Kristin and Nancy are heading out to hang out with Skate Like a Girl’s Sweden Post: Susannah Young, and experience the radness of girls skateboarding!
We will be checking out the Concrete Cup (Swedish Skateboard Cup)and Ultra Bowl 2! Ultra Bowl 2 is a huge skateboard competition in a world class concrete park, Stapelbäddsparken.

As a part of Ultra Bowl 2 there will be a big street competition for girls: Get Set Go! where riders from all over the world will compete for the prize money of 10 000kr (1 385 USD). Representatives from No Limit (SWE), Skate Like A Girl (US) and Skirtboarders (CA) will be in town to enter the competition and hang out at the No Limit area at Ultra Bowl 2.

There will also be two exhibits during Ultra Bowl 2 showing womens skateboarding:
artist and photographer Nina Süsstrunk will be showing her pictures from  last year’s Winnipeg or Bust, James Starlin also edited footage of the tour AND there will also be an exhibit about No Limit and other female skateboard organizations.  As if the event wasn’t enough, the Malmö festival takes place the same weekend with loads of spectacular things going on in the city. Join us for an awesome weekend!

To enter Get Set Go! contact Andrea at: andrea@bryggeriet.org

Portland Chapter is excited announce that we are working with the Dew Tour so we
can provide you a promo code for discounted tickets to the Portland Dew Tour Stop August 12th-15th. (Promo code “SHAUN”)



Yes! That’s right 10 years ago in the summer of 2000, Holly Sheehan and Fleur Larsen ran their first girls skateboard clinic at Ladyfest in Olympia, WA.  That has snowballed from a small skate crew into a volunteer run non-profit with three chapters in Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco.  Help us celebrate by coming to the party August 1st, 2010 at Bellevue Plaza.  We will have a free BBQ for the first 100 folks – thanks to the best Field Roast Grain Company maker in the world + all natural sodas from Hansen’s!

What’s the schedule?  It’s a surprise – keep you on your toes, but we will have some FUNTESTS (trade marked by Kristin Ebeling) $200 bucks to pass out thanks to the generous Chang family, sweet prizes thanks to Sno Con, Black Box Distribution (Fallen, Mystery, Slave, and Zero), Manik, Nomadic, DC, Mavrx and others! Fun activities including clinics! And what’s a party if there isn’t a piñata? BOOM! Fun for all ages.  Guys come out and support – we will have a game of SKATE for you as well!

Rumor has it we will have ladies coming from all over the West Coast of North America: Oregon, California, Montana, and our favorite skateshop in Vancouver – Anti-Social and some ladies from Australia will be jamming with us!

North Bend have fun deep into I-90.  Should be tons of fun for the family.

The French-American Chamber of Commerce of the Pacific Northwest is sponsoring Bastille Day Sunday Jul 11 at the Seattle Center, and flying out two skaters: Sylvain Geoffroy and Charles Lautru from Nantes, France to have a skate cultural exchange at SeaSk8.   Local Seattle skater James Starlin will be the events MC.  We will have prizes from Manik, Nomadic, and Sno Con.  Free clinic by Skate Like a Girl.

Here is the day’s tentative schedule:

1:30: Welcome
2:00: Game of Skate / Skate 101 – Park etiquette
2:30: Demo
3:00: Clinic starts  / Skate 101 + contest: putting together a board
3:30: Highest Ollie
4:00: Highest Wall Ride
4:30: Event Ends

See you there!

Come check out some skateboarding art at the Vera Project (Warren Ave N & Republican) July 3, 2010! We will be doing some flat ground demos, and a game of skate!

Come check out another park that Seattle Parks built!

Yeah! So much fun. Memorial Day getting Hyphy tour with ladies from SF and PDX!

SLAG SF Memorial Day Weekend Skate Tour 2010 from Patricia Fung on Vimeo.

Come and show the boys up and win cool stuff!

Rena “Bean” Pugh is heading up the skate event after the walk!  Ladies and gentlemen come out in your finest shades of pink to support the cause, skate from 9am -12pm at Seask8 in the Seattle Center!  Check out event details, time schedule, etc. on the Susan G. Komen’s Race for the Cure site. 

Lady shredders, come and skate!  You can skate in the girls division, or just skate against the boys. Up to you!

Filmed by James Starlin! Check his gnarly blog out!

Oh, Skatebarn! Why do we love you so much? Maybe because you are the biggest indoor in Washington?  Or is it cause you support Girls Skateboarding? Well, we want to make sure we love you back. Here are all the upcoming things that you should support:

Go get your spot in the X-Games, May 28th:

Get everyone you know to vote for Skatebarn for $10 – from the Gatorade Free Flow. Vote Now!
And, buy tons of raffles! More info.

Join us this summer!

Hey parents and friends…

Click here to pre-register for summer camps! They will run through July, and are offered in Seattle, Bellevue, and Kirkland. Check the flyer for more details, and other events going on this Summer. As always, if you have any questions, shoot us an email at skatelikeagirl@gmail.com!

Giant Magnet has added skateboarding to the mix this year.  Come watch demos, take a Skate 101 workshop on skateboarding terms, skatepark etiquette, putting together a skateboard and more!  Snocon, Skatebarn, BVSP, GOODS, Skate Like a Girl, Nomadic, Manik and others will be teaming up for the weekend to make it fun for everyone – all ages and abilities.  For more information on Giant Magnet go to their website.