Badass Skatemom CrossFit Video Skateboard Hall of Fame

May 4th I was inducted into the Skateboard Hall of Fame. Here is a quick post about how this video got made. I'm currently in Madison WI working in my hotel room before heading to the Scoring Bat Cave room where I'm working on all of the event score cards for the judges. The past two years I've done score cards as well as worked in Media in photography and downloaded and ingested photos of the games. It has always been fun but so stressful to have to be in two places at the same time. When you leave one room and they say hurry back and then the other room is waiting for you to power and get their work done which is super time sensitive and accuracy is to the detail. 10-12 hour days the norm and last year the food was awful this year they are trying but they still don't get the Crossfit style diet. Fresh vegetables not from a can, no sugar and no preservatives please.

Big thank you to Tyson Oldroyd Coordinating Producer, CrossFit HQ Media he had the idea to do a video on my skateboarding and CrossFit. Thanks Sevan (Executive Director of Media and Content, CrossFit Inc.)for letting him do it. Thanks to the awesome Lindsay and Elliot Schrock of Schrock Films

The Schrocks arrived on Tuesday night. They videoed me working out at the regular 8:30 HQ class with Jenny Lau the most awesome coach. We met two hours later at the NHS museum thanks Rich Novak and Bob Denike for letting me shoot there with them. I ran home they went back to HQ. We got to use the CrossFit Sprinter Van and they came by the house and picked up my family and we all headed down to Anaheim. We had plans on hitting a few parks on the way down but we lost a day so we had to compress everything. We arrived late on Thursday. Friday am we met in the Hotel they did a interview while my family went off to a sporting goods store. I'm not comfortable getting photographed or interviewed I prefer the other side of the camera photo art directing or styling the shoot. After the interview in my hotel room we met up and went to a local park. I had scouted a few close by. It was hot in the 90's and it was more of a street course with tons of guys. We went to another park in Fountain Valley 10 minutes away the traffic was a mess from construction. Found the park it had guys in it but it was more my style with rollins and coping but nothing too gnarly.

When I first arrived I was a bit intimidated with the guys there looking at the big black van that rolled up me getting out and then Elliot following me around with the camera. I was thinking they are going to be so unimpressed with my riding but fuck it. By the time we were done the guys were so nice and they were snapchatting and we were stoked to have met.

We drove back to the hotel I had two hours to get ready for the Skateboard Hall of Fame. I practiced my speech a few times. I was nervous but happy. My friend Frances arrived and we went to the event.

Thank you to Maria Carrasco for the slalom racing footage my slalom racing sponsor Sk8kings. James Cassimus for his Capitola shot, Michael "Smiley" Goldmann for his Winchester footage, Gary Medeiros for the plexiglass shot. James Sweigert for the N-men footage. I'm honored to get this video. Thanks John Ravitch, my dad Richard Oyama who I've not had the time to go by and show the video too.

Thanks friends that I asked for high resolution images.

Don't miss the N-men Documentary Trailer link

Congrats Kat Badass Skatemom

Congrats BASM Kat Folsom for the great article in Girls Who Ride Magazine. Kat a mom and ripping skater. Thank you to Cindy Whitehead of "Girl is not a 4 letter word" for collaborating with my Badass Skatemom brand. You are the ambassador of women and skateboarding for sure. You are always pushing forward and speaking out for all women and girls when we get pushed down and get little coverage in the media.

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2015 Gold Rush Giant Slalom Results and a few pic's

Back from a great weekend in Sacramento, staying at Shannon and Jamie Hart's house with Cliff Coleman. Jamie, Cliff and I have been skateboarding together for almost 40 years. We do it for the ourselves not for anything else. Being from NorCal we were not Skateboard Magazine material. Living North of the media is like living on another planet. We laugh we hug and we encourage each other to go fast and have fun. Our boards are high tech our bodies are not. Though I have to say since I have been doing Crossfit for almost 2 years and the past 6 months going 4 days a week I can say I am stronger than I have ever been in my whole life. It helps on the walks up the hill and turns going around the cones. My only regret was not going off the big ramp, otherwise no complaints. I may not be the best skater and never would claim to be. But I can say I have skated competitively longer that any woman skateboarder that I know of.

Thank you Cliff for the women's skateboard history lesson we will be talking more soon. I learned their are a few women never mentioned in the skate history that were from Norcal in the 60's. The SHOF folks only know the SoCal history they don't know about NorCal or other places all over the world that have been as passionate about skateboarding. As mentioned before just because you were never published in a Skateboard Magazine does not mean you are not dedicated to the life long passion and addiction of being a skateboarder.

Results:

Hybrid Junior Class:

Final Position Racer No. & Name Best Time

1 Michael Ambry 19.891

2 Jake Knudsen 20.146

3 Grant Banas 20.592

4 Josh Wells 21.202

5 Andrrew Gromel 22.235

6 Kylie Knudsen 24.756

7 Adien Knudsen' -

Hybrid Open Class

Final Position Racer No. & Name Best Time

1 Ryan Ricker 18.183

2 Martin Reaves 19.495

3 Eric Tokle 19.686

4 kifer kronner 19.809

5 Chris Mescalito 20.261

6 Nick Dicus 20.329

7 Chris Warwen 20.636

8 Jonny B 21.095

9 Dylan Smith 21.159

10 Greg Harlow 21.244

11 Scott OZ 23.484

Hybrid Master Class:

Final Position Racer No. & Name Best Time

1 Scott Hostert 18.589

2 John Ravich 18.783

3 Gary Cross 19.449

4 Paul Chestnut 19.505

5 Jeff Wills 20.091

6 Jamie Heart 20.965

7Judi Oyama 21.189

8 Bruce Norski 22.080

Giant Slalom Open Class:

Final Position Racer No. & Name Best Time

1 Ryan Ricker 21.278

2 Martin Reaves 21.985

3 Johnny Miller 22.091

4 Jeff Will 22.647

5 Gary Cross 22.857

6 Chris Mescalito 22.983

7 Kiefer Kroner 23.362

8 Eric Tokel 23.429

Giant Slalom Master Class:

Final Position Racer No. & Name Best Time

1 Johnny Miller 21.801

2 Scott Hostert 21.936

3 John Ravich 22.472

4 Paul Chestnut 22.489

5 Jeff Will 22.959

6 Gary Cross 23.500

7 Martin Radan 24.881

8 Cliff Coleman 25.528

9 John Nakama 25.589

10 Judi Oyama 26.009

11 Bruce Norski 26.055

12 Jamie Heart 26.426

13 Randy Katen 27.184

Big thank you to all that helped out on the race...Marty, Jonny and to all the neighbors that let us have a race on that hill.