This month I headed down to Cornwall for a weekend to attend the 2nd Switch Session at Mount Hawke. Switch is a monthly girls session held at the skatepark, there was a luanch back in November, but unfortunately i couldn't make that one.
Anyway, this time I got to skate a bit but also coached a few girls that were trying out skateboarding either for the first time or just wanted some advice. The crew were rad and came on strong in the couple of hours we had :)
For more info on the Cornwall Girls skate scene and for the Mount Hawke Switch sessions check out the Girls Skate Fal FB page
Here is a little edit of me skating the park...
I also managed to stop by the DC Showroom on the way back... Sick BOWL!!!!
This summer I got to work on a great programme delivering skate workshops to girls at Hove Lagoon Skatepark. We did two 6 week courses and had over 20 girls / women taking part. The girls really came on throughout the course and each was competent riding their skateboards around the park and going down banks.
I aldo have a skateboard coaching website http://lucyadamsskatecoach.com/ - i do private lessons and will also be working on a new Female Skate project at Brighton Youth Centre in the New Year...Watch this space!
Hannah from Neon Stash intereviewed me for a Cooler Magazine Pro Chat last week. The article features words about the Lovenskate Video which is premiering tomorrow night in London!
Cheers to Hannah, Cooler Mag, Lovenskate and Leo Sharp for the photos!
Part two of the Archive Footgae is here! More fakie flips and BS 5050s! Actually pretty proud of the Fakie Flip on the quarter at old Crawley skatepark - wish I could do that now!
Right, I finally got around to getting some footage off of some old DV tapes and online!
This is the second edit Lec and I made back in 2003. Most of the footage is from the old Crawley Skatepark but some is from our trip to Australia in early 2003.
Don't know why my trousers are so high and yes, my hair is well long! :)
FEATURING MATT RANSOM, LUCY ADAMS, LIAM SPROAT, ALEX BARTON, EWEN BOWER AND FRIENDS, AN IN DEPTH INSITE INTO PARQUE LA CAROLINA SKATE SCENE IN ECUADOR, AND MORE…
Huck Magazine with Copson Street, Nikita and DC recently held the Anywhere Road Exhibition featuring the photographs of Sarah Meurle, Louisa Menke and Jenna Selby amongst others.
Here I am with Jenna Selby next to her picture of me wearing the famous 'Good Things' T-shirt by Lovenskate
And you can watch the edit of the whole event here, featuring a some skating at the secret east London bowl.
Pixels TV the new skate vid channel from Shiner Distribution are giving the chance to one girl and one boy to win a Skate trip to Gran Canaria in February 2013!
Girls need to get to the comp at Baysixty6 on Jan 19th to be in with a chance of winning :)
All the info is on the poster and stay tuned to Pixels for updates / results and more!
The Vans UK Champs took place over the past weekend and always the Ladies Finals ran on the Sunday morning / early afternoon by the time everybody had taken their places!
Results were:
1st Lucy Adams
2nd Lois Pendlebury
3rd Emma Richardson
Super stoked!
As usual Dave Boyle was there taking pics and shot the one below of my wallride
Plus Rye from Sidewalk filmed it all for Mpora here
This week I was invited down to the Us Girls project in Hastings to meet some of the programmes participants and do some skating at the gnarly bowl!
The weather turned out pretty good, although a bit on the windy side! I met some rad girls that were attending a variety of the sessions that the Us Girls Hastings project including a gym session that I looked in on.
It was also great to see some younger girls turning up at the park and I did some coaching and gave out some stickers!
Pictures below by Tracy Hobden at Hastings Council - Thanks!
Sunshine Bus crew hit up Woodingdean skatepark yesterday in the perfect blues. The park is rad and we were treated to another crew of skateboarders turning up causing all the scooter kids to leave! RESULT!
Here's a 10 tricks on the whippy quarter filmed by Holly Bunce...
Us Girls is a Sport England-funded initiative that aims to get 30,000 young women living in disadvantaged areas more active, by providing them with opportunities to play sport within their local communities.
I'm lucky enough to be an Us Girls Champion and hope that I can help by getting more women and girls on boards :)
After not having posted frequently for a while, this is
gonna be an almighty blog post about the most awesome comp I’ve ever been to! Malmo Ultra Bowl! The girls comp is known as Women’s Get Set
Go and this was the 4th edition, now taking place as a street comp.
The early morning flight to Copenhagen was taken by myself,
Hannah Neon Stash, Becky Jaques and Stef Nurding – quite a crew! We landed by
10am and so decided to spend a bit of time in the city and check out a few
spots.
The first park was pretty rad and warmed us up nicely
(footage to come!) for the Faelledsparken – the hugest skatepark I’ve ever
seen. The park had a pool, a bowl snake run type bit, an overhang gnarly bit, a
whoop-de-whoop middle bit with hips, d/ways and speed bumps and a street plaza.
It was the shit! I immediately got involved with some airouts that a queue of
kids were hittin up whilst Hannah was given a dropping-in lesson from Becky! Nice
one Hannah!
As the evening we headed over to Malmo to meet up with Lovenskate
boss and rider, Stu and Ewen! A little skate at Stappel before dark and an early
night went down well.
Saturday morning saw the quarter finals for the girls comp
and there were 29 girls in total! How rad is that?! It was cool to see the
standard being so high amongst the riders and some really serious stunts. Sarah
Meurle killed it on the Saturday, nollie heels mid run was a shocker! Julia
Bruekler and Kristin Ebeling also ripped hard and made things look easy.
That afternoon Stu, Ewen, some other Brits and I all went
off to check out Malmo’s other impressive skatepark offering that is Sibbarp!
Swimming in the sea, Texas plants and a Chinese that served pizza (#unexpected)
were all on the agenda!
Stu FS wallride, Sibbarp
Sibbarp
#perfectblues and backflips
Sunday morning played host to the semi’s and the finals!
Good news was that Stef, Lois and I all made the cut for the semi’s! Stef
landed a FS flip on the quarter which she’d only learned a few weeks back and
Lois honed around. Julia, had a few more tricks in the bag too and Kristin was
as powerful as ever.
6 made it through to the finals – Lois and I got in! It was
sick! I wanted the Sal flip over the spine but I had to make do with a savage
slam instead. Good enough to get 3rd and be stoked forever more with
a badass board cheque J
To promote our Girls Skateboard Workshops at Hove Lagoon (see flyer below!) ITV Merdian came over to BYC to film a feature!
Two of the girls that attend the sessions were rolling about and did an interview and then i helped the reporter learn how to push along. All in a one hour lunch break.
Click on the pic of my face below for the full vid.
We're nearly ready to begin the LA x Thrashion auction! On 1st August 2012, the auction, which is hosted by Skatergirl International and Rubicon Skate camps, will go live! The results of the shoot which will include Thrashion jewellery and Leo Sharps photographs - framed by Eat Art Picture Framing, will accompany five bundles of merchandise donated by sponsors such as Lovenskate, DC shoes, Faltown skateboards, SJz Skatestore, Nikita Clothing Company amongst others.
So last weekend was the annual NASS Festival at Bath and West Showground. It was wet and muddy but Em and i were staying in a B & B so we were lucky I guess!
After stressing most of the day because we couldn't leave Horsham until 3pm, we actually had a good journey and turned up at the showground at about 6.30pm, in good time for the comp. lots of the girls were skating the flat ground area at the back of the course to get a bit of a warm up. Alexis Sablone was in attendance and popping tricks like your meant to.
The comp eventually got underway at about 8.45pm, a massive improvement on last years 11pm! There were 5 heats of 3-4 girls in each...a pretty decent turnout....mad international as well. i found it quite hard to get used to the course, not because it wasn't good (it was probably the best yet), but because i hadn't seen any skateboarding on it. There were obvious lines, but i like to see the mens comp to get inspiration and its good to know what speed you need for what etc. The worst thing was having to go first. Some girl bottled it and that meant that I was the first girl to have to skate their 1 minute individual run. I literally felt sick!!! Nervous wasn't the word. Anyhow, managed to skate my way into the final with 6 others; Swede Emma Fastesson, italian Anita, USA Lacey Baker and Alexis Sablone and Brazilian Leticia Bufoni!
I enjoyed the final a bit more and finally started to feel like my legs were my own! Results below:
The Girl Skate Jam UK 2012 took place at pioneer Skatepark on Saturday 30th June. Rogue Skateboards founder Jenna Selby had once again organised a great day for girls to come out and get inspired by skateboarding.
This weeks Throwback Thursday is from october 2004. It's an article in a French Skateboarding Magazine called Similie on the Gallaz competition, Hossegor.
The comp was one of the best Euro Girls comps I've attended, the likes of Vanessa Torres and Violet Kimble were there ripping.
I went with my sister Rosie and she must've been 13 at the time.We stayed quite far away in Biarritz, which happened to be very expensive. Needless to say we run out of funds and had issues with no public transport on Sunday leading to hitch hiking and tinned peaches. Something she has never let me live down!
Recently I've become mates with brothers Jordan & Brandon La Roche. Jordan shoots photos, mostly of skateboarding, in and around West Sussex. We've skated together at Henfield skatepark a few times lately and he's been documenting some of the pics over on his blog http://jordanlaroche.tumblr.com/
