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

More Gold Rush Skateboard news

Still cool to make the local Santa Cruz Sentinel newspaper skateboarding and in Nevada City Union paper where the held the race last weekend.

CrossFit Games Behind the Scenes

Day 7 in LA working at the CrossFit Games. I'm super stoked to be here working on score cards and ingesting photos. 4 of us are sitting in the rooms above the soccer field getting the photographers cards, uploading, reviewing, sending photos to Social Media and putting together photo requests for the CrossFit Journal and internal needs, occasionally we stand up and stair out the window or walk around but not for long as we have a constant flow of digital media to review.

Each day we would get in at 7:00 am and we leave around 10:00 pm. On Wednesday we would do 20 air squats every hour and did 260 of them. Thursday we did 20 sit ups every hour and then before leaving we ran each row of stairs until we went around the whole stadium. It took me 45 minutes the others were done much faster. Friday we did modified push ups against the counter looking out the window. Saturday was a busy day so we did air squats when we had small gaps of time.

As a CrossFit lover and fan it is hard to read all the angry comments people post about the CrossFit Games. I work on the media team as the only graphic designer at the Santa Cruz HQ offices. Some people were so bitter about not being able to see the Aromas part of the individuals. Do you really think they could of gotten a full crew working at the ranch and the word wouldn't of gotten out about all of the athletes going there? The Open 16.5 event we had a huge crew and truck loads of camera gear and wifi set up. In 2013 there was one truck at the Staples Center and now there are like a dozen. It is impressive to see what goes behind the scenes here and with a small crew of people that are doing it.

I hope you enjoyed the show many of you will see more than several of us that work at CrossFit will see because we will be in the rooms feeding all the photos and info that we can. Thank you to all the volunteers that I met that came from all over the world. I was in the judging Bat Cave room working on Score Cards and it was amazing to see all of the passion and dedication for the sport.

I run a small company called Badass Skatemom I design some small runs of t shirts and stickers it's been a fun way to do something for myself and friends.

A Skateboarder made the Box Magazine Community Spirit CrossFit Faces

Photo Jessica Wade

And it was me. I had posted on the CrossFit Blog after racing at Worlds the past few years each year seeing a huge improvement in my skating because of doing CrossFit. This year in Kentucky the morning of the first day of the World Championships I realized that I had brought two right skate shoes and my CrossFit shoes. Of course I knew where the closest CrossFit was if I had time and energy. All my skate gear is black. Imagine that. I looked at my shoes and thought really? And so it goes luckily the right show is my stopping shoe which matters to me most for foot braking. My front shoe not so important but it helped to have a flat shoe sole instead of a taller running shoe. CrossFit has helped my skateboarding to keep endurance. It has helped me in so many ways mentally.

I am passionate about it as much as I am about skateboarding.

Happy New Years 2016.

Be Badass Everyday! is my goal for 2016.

Big thank you for getting an article in The Box Magazine

Badass Skatemom Small Saturday at Santana Row

I printed a small batch of silkscreened cards, tees, undies and bags. I have some new CrossFit inspired "Badass Skatemom" Badass tanks and T's. I will have some of my signage Heroe's, Murph and Fran ADA Restroom signs and Crossing 18" x 18" Prowler and Handstand 3M reflective outdoor signs and stickers.

Makers Market Santa Cruz is heading over the hill. One day over the hill at Santana Row. Small Business Saturday.

When: Saturday November 28th, 2015 (yes, the biggest shopping weekend of the year)

Time: 11am - 5pm

Where: Santana Row @ Park Valencia (outside) and if it's raining we have a nice open overhang to set up.

It's at the corner of Olin Ave + Piazza Di Valencia

Slalom Skateboard World Championships 2015

Great weekend in Ashland Kentucky at the World Championships of Slalom Skateboarding. I won the women's slalom events in all three categories. Won the overall. The European Championships were the same weekend so the women's field wasn't as big, though I did race the two fastest women two years ago at Worlds in Texas and beat them both as the elder it was a big win. I am stronger and racing faster then ever because of doing Crossfit 4 times a week as of January of this year. Yeah yeah yeah. I know my friends are tired of me talking about it but at 55 I shouldn't be winning races and skateboarding at high speeds but I am.

Congrats to my training NorCal buddies John Ravitch for Second in the Giant Slalom and 4th overall. Off the couch Kevin Delaney for first in Hybrid, second in tight, first in Giant Slalom. Imagine how good you would be if you practiced. Should out to Jamie Hart 64 and Norski. We missed Cliff Coleman and a few others. AARP would be proud. lol

I am not posting much since I want to save my photos and video for the Santa Cruz Waves piece about Badass Skatemom and The Box Magazine that has an article about my Skateboarding and Crossfit.

Super proud of our amazing team -- ‪#‎BringingHomeTheGold‬ ‪#‎Worlds2015‬ at Kentucky Cone Fest!

Congratulations to World Champions

Joe McLaren (6-Time Consecutive Overall Men's Pro - 1st place Hybrid & Giant)

Oshean Lehrmann (Overall Junior - 1st place Tight & Giant)

Orion Thesurfer Lehrmann (Junior 1st place Hybrid)

Judi Oyama (Overall Women's 1st place sweep) and shout outs to Lynn Kramer (11-Time Overall Women's World Champ placing 13th in Men's Pro)

Scott Hostert (Master's 3rd place Hybrid)

Brad Jackman (Master's 3rd place Tight) and all the rest who charged all weekend! ‪#‎Sk8Kings‬, ‪#‎TurboNation‬, ‪#‎AxeArmy‬ Salute You!

Lynn Kramer for her training the Lehrmann Brothers and for keeping me racing. Lynn you are 12x World Champion in my book. Thank you Maria and Richy for the support and Richy for the phone training.

2010 video

Worlds Championships slalom 2010 from Zita Films / Pablo Ballester on Vimeo.

Crossfit and my Graphic Design Passion Collided

Running at 6:00 am is not always fun, it pretty much sucks. I am the slowest and oldest at the Crossfit I go to in Aptos. One morning I was running and thinking about the early dump trucks that come around the corner and thought slow down or Warning runners or Crossfitters with medicine balls or Kettle Balls. That's the mom in me and the designer. Bubble, Hey what about CF inspired signage, thus the Handstand and the woman pushing the Sled. I have so many ideas all the time but I rarely actually pull the trigger and make something. Well I made these yellow Crossing graphics at 4" vinyl stickers that I am getting on Monday and will post on my Badassskatemom.com site. Something I started 6 weeks ago.

Pricing out the outside 18" x 18" yellow Xing signs. The more orders I get the lower the price. Same goes for the Heroes Restroom signage. Now that was process. I wanted to do Heroes and Girls for the WODS but got some flack. How do you show both Men and Women as Heroes. Well this was the result after a few Instagram and Facebook posts. I had other ideas like Murph and Fran... these will be available and I will post.

For retail in Santa Cruz where Crossfit originated they will be at Crossfit Aptos.

Hire a Skate Mom

Thank you for the nice mention on Graphic-Design.com

I love making things and creating design. I have fun. I am working on some Bad Girl Ninja Series t-shirts and stickers...can't wait to share. Being a mom and a designer it is a juggle. You get good at getting the most out of each day. Grateful I am able to do what I do. Maximum Impact Design since 1987

CrossFit and Skateboarding

I started CrossFit May of 2013 and have regularly gone twice a week sometimes 3 times. I am the elder and usually the slowest to finish. I love Crossfit. I don't know how to explain it. I have lifted weights and worked out over the years to improve my strength but never as regularly. I feel healthier and stronger. I don't tire out running cones or skating for hours like I use to at races. By the end of the day into the finals my legs would be like jello. Now I can power out way past the finish and not worry about foot breaking and having my legs tire out. Thanks to Chris Morse who has been patient with me from the beginning. And of course Jason (a.k.a. “J-Dog”) Highbarger. If you live in Almaden go to him he is great. CrossFit and Skateboarding if you want to improve your skating you need strong legs and a strong core. Coming soon a CrossFit in Aptos. I can't wait. I will miss Chris and the West crew but I won't miss the drive.

Don't knock it until you've tried it. Crossfit rules!

It has improved my overall fitness and my skateboarding. My whole core is stronger. Love the crew at Crossfit West.

350 Coral St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 (831) 234-1365

If you live in San Jose I'd go to Jason Highbarger at CrossFit Almaden CrossFit Almaden info@crossfitalmaden.com 1029 Blossom Hill Road Suite 8+9 San Jose, CA 95123