Women skateboarding

Robin Alaway at the Carlsbad skatepark in the 1970s. Photo: Warren Bolster. #kiteboardingphotography

SUPER Sky Brown became Team GB’s youngest Olympic medallist – but plans to go one better at the next Games. But the 13-year-old – winner of a brilliant bronze in Tokyo – plans to …

Rad women who changed skating for the greater good!

"Cholitas Skaters" focuses on a group of Indigenous Bolivian women who wear traditional clothes while practicing extreme sports.

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Thrill-seeking women are taking the free-spirited sport to another level.

Ellen O’Neal is the godmother of female pro skateboarding who proved that skaters aren’t just a group of delinquents living in Venice Beach and helped bring the sport into the mainstream by skating on the Wonder Woman TV show. Born and raised in Southern California, Ellen had only been skating for a year before she was sponsored by Gordon & Smith, Bennett Trucks, and Vans. Here are some of interesting photographs of Ellen O'Neal taken by Jim Goodrich in the 1970s. Mission Bay 1978…

Ellen O’Neal is the godmother of female pro skateboarding who proved that skaters aren’t just a group of delinquents living in Venice Beach ...

Most of the shots are of Laura Thornhill but i’m loving these knee pads and helmets almost as much of action shots and the girls.