Fall is a great season for awards and write-ups!  Skate Like a Girl was recently featured in Seattle’s Child Magazine, and board chair Nancy Chang will be receiving the Seattle Parks Denny Award, for her volunteer work with Skate Like a Girl and creating the Youth Employment Skateboarding program.

The Seattle’s Child article features the Metteer Family, and photos from volunteer Hollyanne Faber.  It’s a great article that looks at the growing popularity of skateboarding among kids, and how supportive parents are of the sport.

The Denny Award is also another great benchmark on how communities are excited about skateboarding and skateboarders.  Nancy is really excited about the award and is honored to be able to work with Skate Like a Girl volunteers and the Seattle Skateboarding community.  She believes that the award is a testament to the strong and growing skate scene in Seattle.  If you are in the Seattle area November 29th 6-8pm and would like to attend the awards ceremony – please RSVP with John.Kimble@seattle.gov.

Thank you thank you thank you for everyone who came out – EVEN though it snowed. It was so cool seeing all the girls come out for the whole weekend! We met a ton of new faces and caught up with familiar ones. Read more!

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The third annual “Where the Ladies at? NYC” is organized by Uptown Skate School, Girls Riders Organization, and Skate Like a Girl.

It is a weekend that aims to bring girls together to skate and have fun. IF you have ever asked: where the ladies at? when you go to a skatepark, wanted to learn how to skateboard, or skate with other girls this is for you!  These events are open to all (yes boys are welcome)!  Costumes encouraged!

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Seattle what y’all doing on Halloween?
All Ages Skate Jam for Halloween.

Get on your costumes and come skate at Innerspace!
The YES Crew will be there helping out.  Prizes and fun from local companies!

Teaming up w/ Uptown Skate School + GRO for Halloween!

Where the Ladies At NYC! Is an annual trek out to NYC to skate with girls and ghouls.  In the past two years we have rallied girls to skate, put on free community events: clinic and skate activities, attended other Halloween events like Hellraiser, and just went to meet people and make friends.
 
 
 
 

Tentative Schedule:

We are working to lock down details.  So locations and times are currently TBA.

• Friday 28: Skate Date
• Saturday 29: Skate Event
• Sunday 30: Girls Skate Conference

If you would like to help out or attend the event, please fill this out.

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Skateboarding has it’s Hallmark day too! Go shred, make friends, and show the world that skaters know how to have fun!

FREE All Girls Skate Workshop @ Lansdowne May 22 12 – 2pm.

LADIES!!! Have you ever had an interest in skateboarding but didn’t know where to start? Now is the chance to put some shred into your life! Skatepark of Baltimore and Skate Like a Girl are teaming up to host a 2-hour workshop for ladies of all ages on the basics of skateboarding!

We will be covering safety, board design and basic form. Helmet, elbow pads, knee pads and complete skateboard needed, however should you not have any of these items we have a limited supply of loaners. Please RSVP to casejacks@gmail.com to receive the waiver and specify if you need to reserve a loaner item. Note that the waiver must be completed in advance and children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult at the beginning of the workshop.

This workshop is FREE for ladies young and old and is located at one of the oldest skateparks in the USA!! Don’t be shy! Come join our wonderful female skate community!!!

Please RSVP here!

Skate Like A Girl Portland and Ripzu Skatepark partner up to bring you monthly skate sessions. ALL AGES, ALL ABILITIES! Female skate coaches on hand to teach you the basics AND MORE! Don’t have gear? You can borrow ours!

$20 for the session, $5 off if you pre-register online HERE

Next session? January 20th, 11am to 1pm! YEEEEEAAAAAHHH!

Sign-up to be part of the best thing to happen to Seattle skateboarding! Practice at Innerspace, Bellevue Indoor or Skatebarn!  Ladies! Let’s represent in SSYC!

Hey lady shredders n friends! Come join us for the third annual Wheels of Fortune, a female skateboarding showcase! Sunday December 19th at Skatebarn! All ages and abilities are welcome to enter the jam-format contest. Advanced/Pro ladies will compete to win our famous “grassroots cash purse” (we’re not sponsored by an energy drink company) and Beginner + Intermediates will battle it out for hella prizes! Best Trick contests will also be held in the mini ramp, ledge/manual pad + hubba/double set.

Entry fees: Free for Beginners! $5 for Intermediate! $20 for Advanced/pro!

10:00am Park Opens
12:00pm Registration
1:00pm Beginners
1:30pm Intermediate
2:00pm Advanced/pro
2:30pm Best Trick
3:00pm Awards
Afterparty TBA

Come one, come all! Support events that are run by skateboarders! Hosted by Seattle legend Marshall Reid!

Pre-register here!

“Attend” the event on Facebook here!

Here’s some footage from last year to hype you up to come and join us this Halloween in New York! Peep the flyer for more info for this year’s weekend plans!

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and we are going to fund raise skater style. Join us for a day of skating, demo’s, swagg raffles, and awareness for young people.

Ripzu owes its creation to a young survivor and it’s logo to another young survivor. Help us raise funds to give back in the support of your loved ones. Check out Ripzu Skatepark on facebook for more updates, or check them out at www.ripzu.com.

The Skate Like A Girl Portland girls only session comes before Ripzu’s “Boarders 4 Boobies” event from 11-1pm. It is open to girls of all ages and abilities. We will have volunteer coaches on hand to help teach you the basics and more. If you need gear, we have it! We have a supply of boards, helmets and pads for use during the session. All proceeds from the Skate Like A Girl session will be donated to the Breast Friends (www.breastfriends.com).

Then after the session stick around from 1-5pm to skate the park, win some prizes, and watch some demos! Help us raise some money for Breast Cancer Awareness!

In 2009 a van load of us traversed to middle America – also known as Winnipeg.

It was the second time we rounded up an international crew of ladies to skate and make friends on the way.  Our end destination was to skate Chicks Flip Out – a contest put together by the Manitoba Skate Coalition and Rugged Riders.  Here are recaps: WOB 1 + WOB 2 (extra footage)
It was fun times.  Bummer it didn’t take place in 2010, but alas, we have memories.

So also – this video was part of an awesome photo show of the tour, taken by Nina Strusstrunk.  The show was part of the Ultra Bowl in Mälmo, Sweden this past August.  We are also looking into setting up a touring photo show if anyone is interested in wanting to host.

Thanks to James Starlin who edited all the footage.

Hannah Stavely just turned 12 years old Oct 5th!

She has been skating just a little over a year.  We are so lucky to have her skating with us! When she’s not too busy getting good grades, having a positive attitude, and being rad, she is making videos on ow to kickflip. Check it!

It’s been a year since Skate Like a Girl visited NYC!  Seattle and Portland girls will be out to make friends and skate!

We will be rallying girls to skate, as always – all ages, and abilities!
We got some things lined up for the weekend -FREE – come and SKATE!

Skate Date @ Chelsea Piers!

Clinic + other fun @ McCarren! This is FREE! Email us to RSVP: skatelikeagirl@gmail.com

Ladiez be Jamming @ Open Road’s 3rd Annual Hellraiser!

and then wrapping things up with another Skate Date @ Chelsea Piers!

What’s a Skate Date? Basically some girls getting together having fun, and skateboarding.

We are super hyped to see all of our friends in NYC like Jen from Uptown Skate School, Lanna, Gnariana, the twins, Izzy and her Dad, Lorena, and out of towners like Beth and other Canadians.  Hopefully we will make more, like you?

We got some product from Steve at 5boro, Adrian from Rockstar Bearings, Hommage, and Protec is lending us helmets, Uptown Skate School is lending skate gear.

Bye-bye summer.
We will be going to our favorite indoor skateparks and continuing Ladies Nights and Girls in Space.

What’s Ladies Nights you ask?  Basically getting the gals together to skate. Make friends get tips from other gals that are there.  If you don’t have gear, let us know and we will bring some gear for you.

We have worked it out with local skateparks that want girls to come and skate!

Bellevue Skatepark: girls only session on Sundays from 5-8pm, the cost is $5 with a membership ($15 initial fee).
Skatebarn: has hosted the longest running girls skate free night on Wednesdays, so we should all go and capitalize on it.

Innerspace: 2nd Sundays of the month = Girls in Space, we rent out Innerspace
1 hour clinics (10am -11am) are $15 for one person, $25 for 2, or $40 for a family of 4.
Drop-in skate $5

Get the word out about the Ladies Nights and Girls in Space!

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!

Have ideas of where to go outside of Seattle to support girl skaters?  We heard through the grapevine that there is a new indoor park in Gig Harbor, people are wanting us to go skate Eastern Washington,  so maybe we will check these place out.