Please vote before Nov 24th!

Please remind everyone to vote for Nancy and Skate Like a Girl! Do it NOW! Thanks.

Wow November! Hold on to the Wheels of Fortune!

Hey all- Nancy here!

November has been amazing with my historic birthday aka the new Obama Administration, McCain's perfect concession speech, and things moving forward for Skate Like a Girl!

Just want to say thanks alot!, tack så mycket, merci, vielen dank, gracias!
For everyone! Thanks! Seriously, what a long list of people to thank, for being able to rally behind Skate Like a Girl, especially getting the vote online at womenofworth.com. Things are moving fast! I was even on the local all female morning show Brooke and Monti! Those ladies are rad! We put it out there for them to come skate with us anytime.

Everything is super exciting! Just like the contest we will be rocking Dec 13.

Here is the latest scoop: we have a $300 cash purse and we are hoping to sweeten the pot! I am hearing rumors of all sorts of gals stoked on this and they will be skating/driving/flying up!
Big big thanks to Insight Washington and Team Soapbox for being the first to kick down some cash for this wholesome, fun, skate shredding contest!
More leaks soon, but check out the flier, and more info below!
Pass the word out, let's blow this up!

Skate Like a Girl presents Wheels of Fortune, the biggest skate contest for the ladies in the Pacific Northwest!
Cash prizes for advanced riders.
www.skatelikeagirl.com

Seattle, Washington (November 18, 2008) – Skate Like a Girl presents Wheels of Fortune, an all-girl skate competition on December 13th at Skatebarn in Renton, WA. (http://www.skatebarn.com/).

Wheels of Fortune
This will be a fun filled day for skaters and fans. Skate Like a Girl will start the day off with a one hour beginners skate clinic at 11AM leading into the Wheels of Fortune street contest, with 3 divisions (beginner, intermediate, and advanced). This contest is designed to be a fun and low stress jam. Skate Like a Girl co-director and co-founder Fleur Larsen says, “We really want to make this an event that skaters of all abilities can come to, have a great time, and be cheered on in a supportive environment The contest will also showcase talented skaters from all over the Northwest.”

Historic Cash Purse
Thanks to the support of Insight of Washington (http://www.insightwa.net/) an online high school, and Team Soapbox (www.teamsoapbox.com) a local PR firm, a $300 cash purse will be showered on the top three advanced skaters. If other individuals or businesses would like to help grow the pot and be part of this historic cash purse for Northwest female skateboarding, please contact Skate Like a Girl.

Live Music w/the Valkyries and a Ramp Jam Open to Guys
Wheels of Fortune will be emceed by Seattle local and pillar of Northwest skateboarding, Marshall Reid of Manik Skateboards. Tunes will be spun up by DJ lil’ armenia. In addition to the street skating, Wheels of Fortune will invite any gentleman skater to register to join the ladies in a good old fashioned ramp jam, while the Seattle based all-female rock band the Valkyries (www.myspace.com/thevalkyriesrock) jam out. There are limited spots, so please make sure to pre-register at skatelikeagirl.com starting December 1st.
Other exciting features of the contest will include raffles, and live painting and art show with local Seattle artist onesevennine (http://179ers.blogspot.com/) and from Portland, Jackie Danger (www.myspace.com/jackiedanger).

“Wheels of Fortune will be the biggest girls’ contest in the Pacific Northwest drawing out of the woodwork talented skaters like Alex White (Featured in Getting Nowhere Faster), Tamara Drybrough (Top female skater in Canada, placed 2nd in 2008 Chicks Flip Out), and Kristina Naryan (Local Portland ripper who placed 4th in the 2008 Chicks Flip Out contest), and other gals from California, Oregon, Canada, and of course, Washington,” remarked contest organizer Kristin Ebeling (2008 Chicks Flip Out Winner).

Mark your calendars!
Ladies and gentlemen mark your calendars! Pre-registration for the clinics and contest starts December 1st. Contest will be taking place December 13th.
Go to skatelikeagirl.com for more information.

More information

Clinic Information:
Skate Like a Girl will offer a one hour beginner clinic open to girls and women. The clinic will teach the basic foundations of skateboarding: board control (balance, pushing, cruising, stopping, and turning). For those that master board control, the clinic will work with those skaters to get the feel of riding ramps, and an introduction to simple flat ground tricks. The clinic will be taught by Nancy Chang (Skate Like a Girl co-director and 2008 L’oreal Paris Women of Worth) and Skate Like a Girl volunteer instructors. The clinic costs $15 for those who register on-line, and $20 for day of registration. The clinic starts at 11 AM sharp, all participants must come at 10:30 AM to check –in. Those with skateboards and safety gear are encouraged to bring them. Skate Like a Girl will have gear for those who don’t own their own. Those who participate in the clinics are encoraged to skate in the beginner category, and will not have to pay the entry fee. Spaces are limited so please pre-register to gurantee a spot.

Contest Information:
Wheels of Fortune is open to any female skater of any age and skate abilities. We recommend that skaters pre-register online between December 1 – 10 to receive a $5 discount, and to have a guranteed spot in their perferred division. All participants must fill out all release forms. Under 18, parents/guardians must sign off forms. Helmets are required!


Entry FEE
Pre-registration / Day of registration
Beginners FREE / $5
Intermediate $5 / $10
*Ramp Jam( FREE for ladies / $5 for gentlemen) / $5
Advance $15 / $20
*Beginners, intermediates, and advanced skaters paying to compete can skate the ramp jam for free.

Wheels of Fortune Schedule
• 10 AM Registration / Check -in
• 11 AM Clinic
• 1 PM Beginners
• 2 PM Intermediate
• 3 PM Ramp Jam (Gentlemen Welcomed) / Live Music w/ the Valkyries
• 4 PM Advanced
• 5 PM Awards Ceremony

Sponsored by:
We are proud to be sponsored by the following businesses, who are helping to support female skateboarders. With out these sponsors we wouldn’t be able to throw such a big event. Please take time to check them out online.
• Insight Washington: http://www.insightwa.net/ http://www.insightschools.net/
• Team Soapbox: www.teamsoapbox.com
• Skate Barn: www.skatebarn.com
• Snowboard Connection: www.snocon.com
• Manik: www.manikskateboards.com
• Evo: http://culture.evogear.com/
• Nomadic: www.nomadicskateboards.com
• Lealta: www.lealtaskateboarding.com
• Ugly Girls: www.uglygirlsclothing.com
• Marrada: www.marradaskateboards.com
• DC: http://www.dcshoes.com
• Vans: http://www.vans.com
• Independent Trucks: http://www.independenttrucks.com/
• Fallen: http://www.fallenfootwear.com/
• Monster: www.myspace.com/monsterskateboards

DEC 13th

*Vote Nancy*

Seattle Resident Nancy Chang
Honored by L’Oréal Paris for her Exceptional
Community Achievement and Volunteerism as part of the
Third Annual Women of Worth Program

Seattle, Washington (October 30, 2008) – Seattle resident Nancy Chang has been honored as a Woman of Worth by L’Oréal Paris for her outstanding commitment to community achievement with her work for Skate Like a Girl. Chang is one of 10 honorees from across the country that will be recognized for her outstanding volunteer achievements and positive influence on her community. From November 10 through November 24, a public online vote will take place at www.womenofworth.com to nominate one National Women of Worth honoree. The National honoree will receive an additional $25,000 donation for her cherished non-profit organization.

Chang will be honored at the CNN Inspire Summit in New York City where she will receive $5,000 for her charitable cause plus a matching $5,000 monetary donation will be made in her name to The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, the eleven-year charitable partner of L’Oréal Paris.

Chang was chosen as a Woman of Worth honoree from nearly 3,000 applicants by an elite group of judges, which includes: Jacqueline Hernandez, Chief Operating Officer of Telemundo Communications Group; Soledad O’Brien, CNN Anchor; Dayle Haddon, L’Oréal Paris spokesperson; Elizabeth Howard, Chief Executive Officer of the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund; Anne Garrett, Executive Director of the Microsoft Alumni Foundation and 2007 Women of Worth honoree, Karen Fondu, President of L’Oréal Paris and Anne Talley, Senior Vice President of Marketing for L’Oréal Paris.

Nancy Chang directs Skate Like a Girl, an organization promoting female skateboarding by providing free lessons to underprivileged girls, ladies-only contests, week-long summer skate camps and other events, and instructional clinics to female groups. Skate Like a Girl’s mission is to empower girls and woman of all ages, abilities, shapes and sizes, through skateboard programs, an arena where women and girls are typically excluded. Skate Like a Girl has served over 500 young women in the Seattle area, setting up workshops and camps in surrounding teen and community centers.

“Skate Like A Girl is dedicated to empowering girls and women to make healthy decisions and become confident leaders through skateboard programs. I’m delighted to be honored as a L’Oréal Paris Woman of Worth for my work and be in the company of such amazing women,” remarked Chang.
The other nine honorees are a cross section of women from all across America, dedicated to a range of causes and are exceptional representatives of the current trend in grassroots activism.

Women of Worth National Honoree Online Voting Begins November 10th at: L'Oreal Women of Worth

Equity at the X Games!

"ESPN is proud to announce that the X Games and Winter X Games will feature equal prize money for both men and women in 2009."

check the link for more info:

http://www.go211.com/u/acknoop/blogs/3786

How did this happen? http://www.actionsportsalliance.com/

We love Portland!

Kristin and I piled in to my car and drove down to Portland for the best 24 ish hours we have had!
We had two missions: Go to the SLAG pdx benefit that Jessie the PDX Coordinator put together with her crew. They raised close to $1000! Yeah!

Big ups to: the Egyptian Room + Staff, bands: Ms. Led, Saucy Yoda, and thats what she said, biz that donated raffle prizes, and for all of you all that came out to dance and buy raffles!

The other mission was to skate and do some filmage.

After a long night of living it up, we woke up to skate. Our travels included: Burnside, a street spot close to Burnside, an abandoned building with ledges + possible asbestos floating in the air, and another even sketchier building that had possible high lead contents.

I will tell you this epic tale through photos.

Starting at Burnside we waited for Moira, Jessie, Kristin and Chrissie to show up. We rolled in and saw a group of plus size ladies all dolled up and were like, oh, a photoshoot, this looks burlesque.

As they are posing, a few start getting topless, this caused quite a stir. Then all of a sudden this guy decides that he wants to get naked and compete with the ladies (B6). Then things got really weird and we left, but before that we snapped a photo of Kristin with her Blue Steel face.



We fled the scene and went down a few blocks to this loading dock. Chrissie, Kristina, and Kristin killed it as Moira filmed. Here's some stills of Chrissie.


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Afterwards we went to this place where skaters put up some ledges. I was a bit afraid of asbestos particles.





























For pictures of the rest of our trip check out our Facebook: http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/album.php?aid=35134&id=8582012458&ref=mf

Bellingham and Burlington

The other weekend, our co-director Nancy Chang organized with some of gals from up north to have a skate date. We opted to meet up at Bellingham which isn't too far up the i-5 from Seattle. So last Sunday Nancy, along with Muriel, picked me up at my house in Ballard and we made our way up. The park in Bellingham is pretty sick. It used to be a crusted over horrible park with death trannys and awkward rails, but Grindline came and saved it, adding a sick ditch on one end, and a bowl on the other side. The gals from up here ripped the bowl with mach speed. I got my kicks on the rainbow rail and in the ditch. After talking to some local male allies, we decided to travel a lil south to hit up Burlington. This city also is home to the Vans outlet, where us ladies couldn't resist the temptation of the "buy one get the other 1/2 off" sale. Burlington was a great time until I collided with our friend Jessyca. Kind of a gnarly way to end the day. 

Portland Mission

I got work off for the weekend so I could make it to Portland. I wanted to make it to our clinic on Sunday and do some filming with Moira. After Attempting to find a train, which were all sold out due to the holiday weekend, I settled for a Greyhound (something I had never done before). $30 for a ticket wasn't bad considering paying for gas to drive down would've been more expensive probably. I made it to the station, and after being accused of cutting in line, I boarded the hound. Feeling like Forrest gump on his first bus ride to school, I found my Jenny to sit next to...a twenty-something gal playing a Nintendo DS on her way to Portland's annual anime convention. Everything was pretty legit about the motorcoach except for the bathroom, which was covered in tags and smelt like shit. Did I forget to mention the door didn't close? Definitely blanketed the seat with toilet paper before I laid my precious behind on it.
So I got off the bus with stiff legs, and sweating profusely. Portland is hot. Krisitina swooped me up in her dads car and we rolled away...yelling random stuff out the window... which is becoming more and more of a tradition for us. We picked up her black rocket from the auto shop, and if you have been keeping up with our blog, you'll know why it was in there. Then we met Moira and her couple friends at the river... some Bellingham lokes Donkey and his sister Danielle, and Portland's own Traci. After taking a dip we opted to make a Burnside mission. A couple beers down I rolled up the park with a smile...it had been a few moons since I had been here. A few back-D's and grinds later I had my fix. Kristina and I left to get some pizza and ended up watching every gals wetdream of a skate video...aka:girl skater. The only thing Gallaz ever manufactured that was cool. I awkwardly passed out in her dads bed next to a picture of my homeboy Jesus.
After waking up startled, thinking that Kristina's dad was home early, only to realize it was Kristina coming home from her job interview, I put on my pants and ate some breakfast. We met up with Chrissie, who had made it down the night before, and our beloved father Moira. I got a line at Burnside, after much frustration. We moved on to lurk around portland street spots running into some people getting their wedding photos taken, homeless men with no shirts on, and chads telling us to do tricks. We got some random clips. Then we made it to Popeyes for some dinner. Delicious tastes of my New Orleans homeland. After noshing and watching "The Wash" staring Dr.Dre and Snoop Dogg at Moiras, we headed out to skate more. Chrissie headed out, and what now became a trio made it out to the new Beaverton skatepark. Pretty random set-up, but fun. BIG stuff and very baby stuff. I dare you to try and ollie up the step-up. Moira ate some shit, Kristina ollied over a trash can and I clipped ollying up a curb. We were over it pretty soon and me and Kristina dropped Moira off so she could get to her dance party. Kristina cooked up some mean garlic bread and asparagus at her dad's pad for us. After taking a shower and watching the Element video, we passed out.
We woke up pretty early for the Dept. clinic we had to be at by 11am. As usual, Kristina lagged and sagged. We got coffee and donuts and made it to D.O.S. fashionably late. The clinic was huge! It was rad to see so many girls learn how to drop in or roll off a curb..etc, etc. After filiming a lil line with Moira, and meeting up with Nancy, Muriel, and portland SLAG folk, we took it to the streets. Filmed some mean clips outside this antique shop. Tall ledges, kicker, loading dock, and a steep 5 stair. We almost bombed hills together, but got rained out. We checked out this "crust" punk show at Burnside and skated a lil bit. Being super tired and sore, I begged Nancy to take me home. Said my goodbyes, and hit up Burgerville on the way out...as all Portland missions should end. Had to make it back up to Seattle to work on Labor Day.

-Kristin

Polar bears are cute.

Polar bears are drowning and it's your fault. Stop driving!


As luck would have it, I had the wonderful burden of a janky car situation before our invasion of Canada. Upon returning to the states, and $680 dollars later, my car was up and running. After several days of entertaining Nugget, Esther, and Chrissie (trifecta was flippin' rad), my car was running stronger then ever. After dropping the girls off, I headed home...that's when my luck caught up with me. Call it kharma for being obnoxious at trifecta, or what have you- but long story short;

I was going about 70mph on the freeway when the hood of my car popped up, curled, and smacked my windshield which obstructed my view. I quickly pull to the shoulder of the road (which happened to be the fast lane) and call AAA. I get the insurance estimate after getting my car towed home, and wait for my dad to come home so I can tell him the GREAT news. Needless to say, he wasn't stoked.

Living without my car was shitty the first time around, as it had been in the shop for a week before Canada. This time around, I decided I wasn't going to rely on other people for rides, and I wasn't going to sit around for another week and wait for my car to be fixed.

So instead, I grabbed my cruiser. I skated across the freeway back into town, I skated to friends homes, I even skated at our janky ass skatepark (which consists of shitty wood and an oversized pyramid) for the first time since Freshman year.

I fell back in love with skateboarding. The love I felt before I got my license. I fell in love with cruising. How does that song go? Kick, push, coast..

Now that my car is fixed, I'm making a challenge for myself (one that i hope you'll take on also) to start skating more, driving less. It's fun and it's cheap. Meeting your friends in town for some grub? Skate there. Headed to the park down the street? Skate there. Plan ahead, pack a water, bring a backpack, get off your ass and skate.


Product suggestions: Zip Zingers are super cruisers, they're small, fast, and you can actually skate on them if you need to ollie a curb or something. Plus, they're easy to stop unlike longboards. Or, invest in some large, soft, wheels for your normal board. They'll make the ride much smoother, and you'll totally enjoy skating without having your knees rattle.



-Kristina, OUT!

CONTEST

Greetings earthlings!

Thanks to the awesomeness of Jill over at Skatebarn West, we have the green light to start planning a girls skate comp/jam for this winter. The tentitive date is December 13th and for those of you that "aint know" Skatebarn is located in the humble town of Renton, Washington.

Once again, if you want to donate your time and help us make this event Kim Jong-ill...hit us up! yee

skatelikeagirl@gmail.com
kristinebelinggg@yahoo.com

Speaking of Skatebarn... as a beezy you get to skate for freezy every Wednesday. I'm headed over tomorrow, so hit me up if your down.

oh yeah, watch this video and learn your history.

love kristin

So we made some mix tapes for all you all.

Redmond gals skate jammer

HOWDY

Earlier this summer SLAG held an all-girls skate jam to showcase some of the local rippers in the Seattle area. Chrissie, Muriel, and yours truly attended, among others from Bellingham and other surrounding areas. We snapped a few photos. Backside 180 by Chrissie and a frontside tail by me.

Anywhoo, speaking of contests... we still need some help on putting together a contest this winter. If you are interested in doing sound, judging, collecting prizes, raising prize money, making a flyer, internet publicity, or anythang else...let us know!! kristinebelinggg@yahoo.com

until next time...

SLAG at Artoleptic 2008

Asian Skate Gang!
Originally uploaded by Skate Like A Girl

Artoleptic (live painting, music, arts/crafts! and skateboarding) was so rad. It was the first time I skated with a whole crew of asian girls! We mad sessioned the worst place to skate for anyone learning: the curb next to the Sno Con Waterfront store. Though there was this challenge that didn't stop my Asian Girl Gang from tearing it up.

I drank so much Vitamin Energy water and skated from 12 to 6pm. I was super wired, and a sweaty mess.

We taught about 7 girls to shred the curb. I perfected the shuvit/5050stall/body varial/shuvit off the curb!

We met hidehiko from Low Card.

Thanks Shaina for inviting us to be a part of this. Also big ups to our SLAG volunteers: Christine/Simon, Sophie, and Lanna.

-nancy

AHOYYY.

I'm taking this opportunity to spam yet another website with my filth.
08.23.08 ...as in yesterday :

Moira, Chrissie, Jessie, Esther le molesta, and I met up for what we had hoped to be a productive day of filming. I guess we were productive in that we avoided all skateparks, which is incredibly rare as I proudly flaunt the fact that I am a skate park whore. The first stop on our street conquest were the "portland public ledges"...little did we know that "ledges" meant waxed curbs and tall benches. But hey, when you're super ripper status like Chrissie, it aiiiin't no thang. She threw down a fakie fifty front shuv out, and half-cab noseslide. This spot is located in NE portland. It's actually really fun, undercover, and has a few obstacles such as newspaper bins and concrete blocks that you can move around. Plus, the benches are of that plastic/fake wood material, so no wax is necessary. It's BUTTAH! Definitely recommended for those hot or rainy days. To get there, go toward the Broadway bridge, take the street before crossing it (right onto Benton) and then a left onto Dixon.

Next up- the janky banks on SE Water Way (you can take the OMSI exit and follow water way all the way down until you see them on the left). The run up is choppy, you have to get up a curb first in your run, and the banks are steep. However, they're incredibly fun and you quickly get used to it. I enjoyed it for sure- just watch out for traffic. There are plenty of cars, bicyclists, and buses using both streets.

Before stuffing our faces with huge pita platters at a local Lebanese resturant, we parked on 6th and starke (or somewhere near it) at the "antique ledges". No wax required, just tons of pop. These ledges are basically metal window seats that are insanely slick and probably in every decent skate video known to man. We passed on this session, but just down the street was an array of loading docks. About the height of Chrissie ( 5'1" ha..ha) these aren't too shabby. Decent run up, decent landing. Although I suggest lurking around the block a bit as some of the loading docks will have scrap metal and crappy concrete that will rape your skin. A little bit of patience should bring you to the right ones.

That's three spots within 5 minutes of each other. GET IT GIRL!

-Kristina, OUT!

HATEonTHIS

Hey everyone, Kristin the Ebelinger here...

Just thought I would post a lil video I made a few weeks back of a few slag gals at Bellevue Highland Skateboard Plaza.

And for all you Portland folks, I hate you... there is another new skateboard park in your neighborhood.

Also, I thought I would end my post with some exciting news. SLAG is currently planning a girls skate competition for this winter. If you are interested in helping out or have any ideas, please email me at kristinebelinggg@yahoo.com.

Oh yeah, new stickers coming soon ---->


And I'm out.

Summer 2008! Super Crazy Awesome Part 1

SLAG Summer 2008 Tour aka the Winnipeg Tour was off the hook!

I am so stoked on girls’ skateboarding right now!

Thanks to Elysia (Rugged Riders), Jacqui Comp and her crew at the Manitoba Skateboard Coalition, all the girls that braved this trip and shredded up two countries: Erica Harris (SF), Jessie Haungs (PDX), Kristen Ebeling (SEA), Kristina Narayan (PDX), Esther Godoy (Melbourne, Australia), Chrissie Lathrop (SEA), Beth Nenniger (Vancouver, B.C.), our camerawoman/skater Moira Morel (PDX), and photographer Audrey. Thanks so much for such an awesome trip.

(All the fine ass ladies at Chicks Flip Out!)





So here’s the story. I guess let’s set-up the story for why this was awesome…
1. The fact that Jaqui emailed us (me + Elysha) out of nowhere early in the spring and was like…. you ladies must come to this or else! Like a moth to flame we got our act together and hustled to shred!

(Jessie, Elysha, me (nancy), Jacqui, Moira, and Erica)

2. We started off with a mini-van, and a handful of gals wanting to skate and get footage and it grew.

a. Did I mention that Erica Harris (randomly emailed us) decided to come help us with our Seattle skate camps (out of love for skateboarding), and before this we didn’t really know anything about her except she was a fire fighter?

If I were more paranoid I wouldn’t have invited a girl who could cut me up like a fire line (ask Kristina what it feels like to endure the wrath of Erica) to stay with me for a few weeks. Luckily for all of us I am way too trusting and was like, “yeh come up, and oh yeh, do you want to drive over 3000 miles to skate in Winnipeg?”

b. So we had a crew of gals representing Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco, AND then Esther Godoy who rides for the Element team was like, “Hey, I am Esta, I want to join this skate trip!”
So we were like, “Hell yeh!” And then all of sudden this thing started snow balling.

c. Erica, who is the queen of networking met Beth Nenniger skating in Vancouver, and then the trip became an international all girl skate squad!

3. The girls drove basically non-stop from Portland to my house in Seattle and then through the night to Montana. They hit up Montana, Fargo, ND and all of sudden the SLAG gmail and myspace were filling up with love letters. Guys and girls were like: “You changed our lives, please, please, oh please come back again.” Here's some photos from our myspace.

Not hearing the story until I flew into Winnipeg (I had to go to my cousin’s wedding and couldn’t drive out with them), I was like these girls are heartbreakers!

4. Flying into Winnipeg, I thought I was going to get deported, since I didn’t have a return ticket. "Yeh, so like I am here to meet up with friends to go skateboard your country." I was a bit nervous, but the woman was nice and let me in with a Visa (I have never gotten one to go to Canada before), and I hopped in a cab to meet up with the girls.



When I got to the Plaza, there was a pretty huge crowd watching the girls skate. I got there in time for the advanced skaters. It was super hot, but the SLAG team was tearing it up. I see the girls, and they are skating so hard. I guess Kristina bumped her head hard board sliding a rail, and then got back up and slid it again. Esther, Chrissie, Kristen, and Kristina were hucking themselves and cheering on everyone, including Tamara (Vancouver) and Annie (Montreal). It was so overwhelming to feel the love.



5. I met Jacqui and Elysha! They were pretty much the reason we went to Winnipeg.

6. Most all of our gals placed! Advanced: 1st = Kristen, 3rd = Esther, 4th Kristina, and 5th Chrissie. Intermediate: 1st Jessie, and 3rd Erica.

7. Partied and hung out with awesome girl skaters and saw what amazing community organizing the Skateboard Coalition of Manitoba, local business and the local government officials could do together. They collected so much product, and $3000 in cash to deal out to the advanced skaters! They even had flowers and trophies.



8. Taught a bunch of girls to skate.

9. Drove over half of the Trans-Canadian Hwy. Not die-ing on the sketchy roads in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Seeing road signs we have never seen before and trying to interpret the meaning. Killing like a few thousand bugs on our grill and windshield. Erica is seriously the champ of cleaning off dragon fly guts!
Saw/was in the middle of a crazy thunder and lightning storm in Regina. Regina was gushing! We were in a grocery store and the power cut out, it got crazy. The Canadian Rockies are so beautiful.


10. Random skate seshes in rest areas. Girls sessioned a few rocks.

11. Cochrane park was super fun! Esther asked a pre-teen boy to switch for his mountain scooter. Kristina was flying over pylon, board sliding like it was going out of style. The girls got in the bowl and road it like a train gang. They were like the Harlem Bowl Trotters!









12. Pulling up into Vancouver at 5 am, with a few girls pulling out their sleeping bags and sleeping on the side walk like bums. Serious.











13. Hanging out at Anti-Social with Michelle and skating her ramp. Getting Nugget to skate, hangout, dance and then drive back to the states with us.


14. There’s so much more, but I am going to end with: the U.S. border customs agent was the best. He was so nice to us.

The end!

Actually more thank you's:

Bob, Cam, Mio, Inn at the Forks, Michelle @ Anti-Social, Nugget, Mark, everyone involved with the Chicks Flip Out comp!, the City of Fargo North Dakota and Dike West Skate Park, Beth’s parents, Skirtboarders, Tamara, Stephanie, and Annie. Christine, Simon and Sigma for making a million SLAG buttons! Michelle (Kristen’s mom for buying snacks), basically there’s a million other people to list.

Girl Only Skate Jam - PDX.

Jessie and crew are busy with summer skate plans, they also have a Girl Only Skate Jam on May 31st. They are moving forward with regular skate clinics at D.O.S. along with other fun stuff. Stay tuned!

A New Place to Skate - SEA.

Nancy is headed off to Atlanta to do a clinic as part of Mondo Homo on the 24th. It should be fun to reconnect with our Georgian friends! Besides that the SGS clinics ended last week. The gals sent us thank you notes! It was so nice. We hope to see them at our camps in July.

We have a fun summer planned with Secret Skate Dates, summer camps, a SLAG Summer 2008 tour with a few ladies from SEA, PDX and SF. We will be headed off to Winnipeg (cross your fingers it works out).

We attended the May SPAC meeting, along with Seattle Center skate park advisory meetings. Really great things happening for skaters in the city. Lots of people working with the Seattle to make more parks... like the lower Woodland Park ... it is opening up June 7th!

Also June 21 is go skate day!

We have lots of exciting things that are happening that we will fill you in on as things get firmed. As always, battling the SLAG site to make it nice, informative and navigate-able. So come back and check in on our progress

Hey YOU, Thanks! - SEA.

Thanks for all of your emails and support! SLAG is currently volunteer run, so it makes it hard to update all the time, have a fancy looking website that is maintained, and all the stuff we really want to do/be in order to get more gals skating! We are currently exploring ways of becoming a program that offers more and is self-sustaining. Who knows, we might go for a 501(c)3?

Let us know if you would like to help make that happen.

Kindergartner Angie learning how to pump tranny at SB. 2008

Clinics & Camps - SEA.

SLAG Seattle is running skate clinics with Seattle Girls' School (SGS) for the month of April. This is only for girls that are attending SGS (sorry). Other than that, we don't have any events scheduled currently except for 2 summer camps.

The older teen girls camp will be at the Kirkland Teend Union Building, and the younger girl camp will be at SGS (opened to all girls). Register online for the Kirkland camp at KTUB or Seattle camp at SGS.

We are trying to plan other skate events, so please check in periodically. If you would like to be on a newsletter, please email us: skatelikeagirl@gmail.com! or with any questions.