Bit slow on updating here but back in tha game from now....
These two rad jams happened at the end of the summer! Firstly Revolution Skatepark in association with Girl Skate UK had a girls Jam! A relaxed affair with girls only skates in each of the rooms, lots of shredding from everyone. Brighton She Shredders were out in force as well!
Here's some footage of the day...
And thanks to Danni G, Shelley, Wings and all the guys at Rev for making it a rad day!
The second event was the Unicorn Jam at Mile End! Another rad day with loads of new faces and heavy hitters in attendance.
There are loads of photos of this one floating around Rogue Skateboards FB site and on Girl Skate UK but here is the clip...
Big ups to Zoe Kings who smashed it out of the park...
Yesterday I headed down to the HTC One Skatepark at Selfridges for the 2nd Cooler Mag girls Session! It was rad to see the standard of Girls skating being so high. Josie Millard, 15 from Brighton kickflipped both sets of steps but one more for a photo caused a tail snappage of the cleanest kind. Bummer for Josie. Camilla Mullins slid the smoothest front boards down the rail whilst Dor Horvath got tech on a boardslide shuv out on same rail.
Highlight of the night was that Jenny Jones, the boss was in the house! Jenny hung around and created hype giving hints and tips and positivity to all the girls trying to get their moves!
The Brighton She Shredders are going from strength to strength! ITV meridian came down to one of our sessions just before Christmas and filmed the girls in action! We made the cut and were on the telly a couple of weeks ago!
These girls are really pushing themselves and there passion for skating is right up there! They're putting me to shame with the amount of time they're spending on their boards. Mega shout outs for everyone who helped make this happen, including Brighton and Hove City Council, Brighton Youth Centre and of course the Brighton She Shredders
Girls in the South East / South Coast area!!!! Brighton and Hove City Council are running a Sportivate Girls Learn to Skateboard course for females aged 14-25.
Active Sussex came down and filmed some clips for their Introduction to Skateboarding video below
I'll be delivering the course alongside another instructor from Brighton Youth Centre. If you want to take part, there are still spaces, see the flyer below for contact details and further info!
We've started a new female only session at Brighton Youth Centres Skatepark - The Brighton She Shredders and three students from Sussex Uni recently came and filmed us for a project. Results in the clip below! Thanks to Rebecca, Rachel and Maria.
It's time to shake off the winter blues and get down to Brighton Youth Centre Skatepark on a thursday evening! The Brighton She Shredders sessions have started and are looking for females aged 13+ to come down and try skateboarding!
All the info is on the poster below. I'm at every session, to skate, chat and give tips and advice :)
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!
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!
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.
