My 50 years of skateboarding documentary 1 day shoot with NHS Fun Factory Crew

I'm honored to be asked to be part of a short YouTube Doc created by the NHS crew since it's their 50 year anniversary and I have been skateboarding for 50 years. I was sponsored by NHS when I was 16, I'm 63 now. OMG!

This year we have had the most rain and storms ever. I live near Seacliff and Rio Del Mar Beach and they got hammered by the storms. So much so, President Biden visited both Aptos and Capitola. I have barely skated slalom since the World Skate Games in Argentina in October. I usually go 4 months without riding slalom and get back on it as the weather warms up. It's not so much it's cold but I like riding parks and doing other forms of skating. 

I was not going to go to the Presidents Day Race because I always question myself before going to race because it's an extra thing I do that takes time and money. Two my dad is under Hospice care and his birthday is the day I drive home he turned 94. 

The only day I rode at any speed is the day NHS or Santa Cruz Skateboards did an all day shoot organized by Alex White the brand manager of Krux Trucks, commentator and world's first Women's and NB Rider Relations Manager over at NHS. She had Pro rider Minna Stess and her mom Moniz come to my house and skate my ramp and tour my she shed of skate herstory. Joe Ruiz the videographer documented it. That evening we met in San Jose his brother Jesse Ruiz a photographer. They both are skaters and documented my skating with my two former Santa Cruz Skateboards Teammates Cliff Coleman and Jamie Hart both in their 70's. They inspire me to keep riding and slalom racing. I invited Michael Smiley Goldman, his skater wife Karen Goldman and John Hutson known for his Hut tuck that was actually started by Goldman.

Met up in the morning to shoot in my backyard with Minna and Alex.

We went to lunch and met up at the NHS museum to shoot an interview. My downhill board I rode in the Capitola Classic is on the wall with me riding in that photo above. Joe the videographer.

Ended the day skating in a 8 story parking garage. Got this awesome
 portrait taken by Jesse Ruiz in the garage after skating with Josh Harvey, Cliff Coleman and Jamie Hart. I wish I would have asked him to take photos of Cliff and Jamie. They are still skating strong into their 70's!

I will post about the Presidents Day Race results and some photos. I am super stoked about an Instagram post that was reposted on Wearageist of the World Skate Games race Instagram video on weareageist IG that is has over 60,000 views in two days. Thank you for posting!

I put the video on YouTube this morning. Here's the Slalom Worlds link:

Girlhood (It's Complicated) Virtual Opening Female Skateboard Pioneers and BFF's

Here is a little back story to this event. Jane and Beth collected my Flyaway helmet and trophy. They have come out and personally interviewed us for more background on women in skateboarding, our herstory and what the items we donated meant to us and when and how were they used or won. Won in my case was because I gave them one of my first place trophies from the Berkeley Skate Contest years ago. 

 

Back story on the black flyaway helmet. That was Rebecca Botelho she did the custom pin striping. I was going to have her do one for me and instead we did a helmet trade and I gave her a new flyaway helmet and she gave me the black one. She still skates and is awesome. We skated together a few years ago when my husband had a cyclocross race down in Los Osos area. She is helping get a skatepark built in Cambria. www.skatecambria.com

I was super honored to be apart of this virtual opening yesterday. I put together my video and self-interview. I was going to hand it off to Daniel Carettoni of Santa Cruz Aerials so he could smooth it out. I didn't have a ton of time so I didn't redo my interview areas. When you get behind the camera or iPhone you don't always say exactly what you planned to say. I wanted to redo some of the slow bumpy talking. 

                                                    

1:13 Shows are skate pieces at the show

https://youtu.be/GVYesfMeMOc?t=2611 

                                                            

45:19 Cindy Whitehead

https://youtu.be/GVYesfMeMOc?t=2723 I am right after you. I am sending this to my friend Frances and thought I would share the links of where we want to watch from.

                                                            

47:35 My section

https://youtu.be/GVYesfMeMOc?t=2854

At the end of my video I put photo and video credits. Thank you to my friends that have been kind enough to take a photo or shoot with my camera when I ask them. If not for my dad who took most of my photos my story would not have been documented.

Credits:

Daniel Carettoni

Bill Golding

Richard Oyama

Gary Mederious

Michael Smiley Goldman

John Krisik

Dan Devine

John Ravtich

Michael Chantry

Ian Logan

Daniel A. Anderson

Gary Holl

Steven King

Randy Katin

Brad T. Miller

Jonny Miller

Maria Carrasco

Mary MacDonald

sorry if I missed anyone 

Day 9 of no sugar, no grains, no dairy, no alcohol  no fun. I am doing it until October 22. 21 days to exact.

The history of girlhood is not what people think; it is complicated. Young women are often told that girls are “made of sugar and spice and everything nice.” What we learn from the past is that girls are made of stronger stuff. They changed history. From Helen Keller to Naomi Wadler, girls have spoken up, challenged expectations, and been on the front lines of social change. Although definitions of girlhood have changed, what it means to grow up female in the United States has always been part of the American conversation. More details at girlhoodlive.com

I got a little love Smithsonian spotlight

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/snapshot/shredding-judi-oyama

UNDEREXPOSED: A Women’s Skateboarding Documentary now on iTunes

UNDEREXPOSED: A Women’s Skateboarding Documentary is a documentary film that highlights women’s skateboarding as well analyzes the skate industry’s approach to female skateboarders.

Really enjoyed watching this and girls, women...keep on pushing.