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.

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!

Michelle Bush from Fort Bragg asked Skate Like A Girl SF, if we’d come help support the construction of their new skate park via clinics.

Fort Bragg was in need of some lovin’ and support. They needed to raise funds for their skate park.

Of course, being the skate park supporters we are.. we replied “YES!”.

We were able to make a whole tour out of it. A rental van became our means of transport from one city to the other, and the weather became our enemy. It was scorching and we literally put our sweat and tears into our skating.

The beginning of our tour started at Potrero Del Sol in San Francisco. We also hit up Ripon Skate Park where we met up with Lisa Whitaker and a few other girls. Girls who made the trek with us on the tour were as follows: Jolie Pitetta, Patty Fung, Yil Sag, Jin Hei, Staycee, Anna Nabba, Erica Harris, Kristina Narayan, and Ashley R.

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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!

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.

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.

Hey PDX friends! Check out our programs and events coming up in the Portland area, including tabling, camps, events, and more. Join in on the fun!

Ashley Jonessssss

Big ups to local living legend, Steve G, and all the Bellevue gentlemen for making the clinic and demo a success at the Cherry Blossom Festival a few weekends ago! Booyah.