Where the Ladies at! NYC?

Skate Like a Girl presents Where the Ladies At! in partnership with the Skirtboarders and Girls Riders Organization.

Tricks 4 Treats, a skateboarding Halloween event in Brooklyn’s Park Slope, featuring girl skaters! Oct 31 12-4pm in Washington Park (5^th St / 5^th Ave)

www.skatelikeagirl.com

Seattle, Washington (September 30, 2009) – Where the Ladies At! Skate Like a Girl is teaming up with Skirtboarders and Girls Riders Organization to have their first event in New York: Tricks4Treats, a fun day of skateboarding! This event is free and open to all ages and abilities.

Skate Like A Girl will be offering free instructional clinics at 12pm to girls and women of all-ages on skateboards provided courtesy of Girls Riders Organization. In addition to the clinic, we'll have the Skirtboarders from Montréal demo! Confirmed Skirtboarders are Frédérique Luyet, Anne-Sophie Julien, Mathilde Pigeon, and more!

Exciting new music site, Play.me (www.playme.com) will be sponsoring a game of S.K.A.T.E. and we will be scouting out who’s got the best trick in costume, and treating them with some cold hard cash courtesy of Play.me!

After 4pm we will be rallying folks skate in the Village Halloween Parade!

Follow-us on Twitter @skatelikeagirl for our weekend updates—where we are going to skate, and just in case it R.A.I.N.S. – where we will be at!

Additional Information
FREE Clinic: First come, first serve! Clinic starts at 12pm sharp. Skate Like a Girl will offer two one-hour clinics. For those without skateboards, gear will be available to be borrowed, courtesy of Girls Riders Organization. The first clinic will teach the basic foundations of skateboarding. By the end of the clinic participants should be able to have 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; ollies, shuvits, manuals, kickflips and other tricks.

The clinics will be taught by Nancy Chang (from Seattle and 2008 L’Oreal Paris Women of Worth for her work with Skate Like a Girl), Susannah Young (from Sweden) and Lanna Apisukh (Brooklyn Local).

The clinic is free, but a suggested donation is $20 to help support Skate Like a Girl and Girls Riders Organization programs. Those with skateboards and safety gear are encouraged to bring them. Girls Riders Organization will have gear for those who don’t own their own. Spaces are limited to 20 per session, so please come early!

Play.me presents: SKATE and Best Trick in Costume:
Play.me knows that girls are shredders and is putting up a little pocket money for a game of S.K.A.T.E and the Best Trick in Costume! Girls who can dazzle the crowd will get $50!

Visit our sponsors!

www.playme.com

Play.me is the best new music destination where you can legally download free MP3s and stream ad-free music content from your computer, your favorite social site like Facebook, or your mobile phone. Without Play.me we wouldn’t be able to give out a cash prize, so please support them by visiting www.playme.com where you can listen to millions of songs and download your favorite tracks.

www.skirtboarders.com

Skirtboarders is a skate crew from Montréal! They skate hard, film and are fun gals. Skirtboarders mastermind Mathilde Pigeon put out Les Skirtboarders an all girl skate movie in 2007. We are all about ladies doing it for themselves, and les Skirtboarders are dominating making paving the way for girls skateboarding!

www.Thesideproject.com

The Side Project is the best girls skateboarding network providing female skaters all over the world with THE online place to go to get footage and news on female skaters. The Side Project is run by Lisa Whitaker-- one of the biggest pillars of girls skateboarding! We are proud to have the Side Project as a media sponsor.

www.chicarider.com

Chica Rider is the Latin American version of the Side Project, run by Paloma Guerrero. Chica Rider organizes events, tours, and support female skaters with opportunities to excel in skateboarding. The site has amazing photos and skateboarding news in both Spanish and English. They are working hard to represent the she-rippers of Latin America. We are lucky to have Chica Rider as our media sponsor!

www.girlsriders.org

Girls Riders Organization (GRO) is a nonprofit group launched in 2006 on a mission to inspire, educate and support girls in action sports. Touring the country bringing nonexclusive events and opportunities designed for females by females to more girls coast to coast to anyone. All girls, all ages and all skill levels are encouraged to participate. GRO strives to make skateboarding more accessible, providing equipment, experienced instructors and a safe and positive environment. We are excited to partner with them to provide clinics.

www.skatelikeagirl.com

Skate Like a Girl is a nonprofit based in Seattle, with two chapters in Portland and San Francisco, with a mission to promote female skateboarding by fostering confidence in girls & women to skateboard and take leadership in their communities. We love organizing events and meeting up with other girls who skate!

Interested in supporting girls skateboarding? If you want to sponsor this event, or future events, please send us an email: skatelikeagirl@gmail.com

Sol sol sol sol sol! Skating outside the city!

Chica Riders organized the Magical Mystery Tour out to this new amusement park: Bicentenario Park in Querétaro. It has a huge skatepark that looks like super happy cause of the paint job. We left super early in the morning in this nice tour bus filled with chicas, a few parents and a few chicos. The bus was amped to go skate! When we got there Paco and Paloma set us up with the girls from the bus and from the town. They skated from noon to 5pm in the hot sun. We worked on pumping walls, which most of the girls could do really well already plus kickturns. Then we moved over to ollies, 5050 stalls, shuvits, maunallying off things, old school tricks (with Erica), and tons more. The girls just wanted to skate. At one point in my broken Spanglish, I was like "I need water, do you all need a break, and they were all naw... go ahead take a break.

There were like over 30 girls skateing. We had such a fun time! The bus ride back was insane. The girls were soo hyped on skating and walking back and fourth on the bus chanting many things, but mostly: "Sol Sol Sol Sol!" It was one of the girl's names.

Day 2: Touring the City

The first night when we got to our Hotel Paloma warned us not to go to the street food vendor across the street. So when Erica and I woke up yesterday we walked around looking for water and avoided that place. We got pastries, and sat in a beautiful church. After 30 min we were overheated and high from the air so we went back and took a quick nap.

We got up and were hungry, so we went to a torta stand, down on the OTHER end of the street. Then Erica got a papaya / guava juice next to the street vendor that Paloma told us not to go to. No diaherrea yet.

We went and took another nap.

Paloma came and got us and showed us around the downtown area. Mexico City has 30 million people, and so much culture and history. We went to the Palacio de Belles Artes, the night before we saw people skating on the all white marble building. Inside is a performance hall with huge murals done by the great Mexican Muralists.

We stepped out and walked towards the central plaza. We stopped at a traditional candy shop (Dulceria de Celaya). Then we went to a cathedral that was built on top of a pyramid. After that we went to the Templo Mayor, a "rui"n part of the Aztec's great pyramids.

The day was super busy, and at night Paloma and Paco took us to this super exclusive art opening hosted by Converse, "leyendas mixtecas a traves de pintando pasos oaxaca" where they had Oaxacan artists paint on converse shoes. The event was super posh, and Erica and I rolled in like scrubs with jeans on and wearing beat up Vans.

There were tons of random folks there, like the reggaeton sensation "gold nigga." We met the editors of Canvas (a magazine all about shoes) they had a spread on the Converse shoes. I am sure there other famous people there, but Erica and my Spanish is so poor.

We did enjoy the traditional Oaxacan hors d'arves such as chapulines
it tasted like black beans. Afterwards we went to go pick up Micaela from Poseiden.

It was a good day and night.

La Ciduad de Mexico

Erica and I flew in to Mexico City around 11:30 pm, and got picked up by Paloma (ChicaRiders.com) and Paco (reskate.com).
They are so awesome and nice. They told us about a radio interview, and we were like that sounds cool, it turned out that it was that night.

We went straight to the radio station and were unsure what to do, but we tried our best to answer questions about the clinics. Paloma and Paco helped to translate. They told us that the radio station was the biggest gov supported radio station.

So we were on Mexican Radio!

Then we drove around the city and saw some huge cathedrals that were built on top of pyramids.

We got to our hotel to get shut eye.

This morning we woke up and walked around trying to acclimate to the weather and air.
We will be exploring the city soon and skating a bit.

Paloma and Paco has set up some clinics and bus transportation to get like 20 girls to come to skatepark outside of the city. We will more photos soon.

Check out the photos of the radio interview!