May 8, 2026 • 51 mins
Kristin Ebeling joins GLWT this week.First, we hit the news desk:
- THERE Skateboards drops Oops
- Red Bull’s Nowadays surf film featuring Sky Brown
- Is Mariah Duran on Vinyl?
- Summer contest season officially begins and it's JAM packed
- And why everyone should probably just go to Wheels of Fortune
Then we get into it with Kristin.Our Mother Teresa of skateboarding. Her history with Skate Like a Girl, what life looks like now after stepping down from her Executive Director role, building DIY skate spots, serving the community by simply showing up, thoughts on the current state of the skate industry and what comes next. Plus, a few good teases for Wheels of Fortune 13.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Good Luck with That is an iHeart women's sports production
in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
What's up, my skaters, Welcome back to good Luck with That.
Joining me today is Kristin Ebling and Alex Waye. I
am so thrilled to have you guys both on the pod.
And Alex, you're always on the pod.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Hold up, well, I'm glad.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
That you're still thrilled to have me on. Actually, I actually, Magoo,
what was that? She's offended you didn't enjoy her?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah, okay, Magoo reporting live and local from Seattle, Washington.
We're so honored to have you today, she says, thank you.
Incredible for the listeners who can't see this. Christ and
Ebling is holding an adorably perfect angel.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
A brusty white dog.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
It's okay, it's her like an old lady dogday foreshadowing.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
We'll talk about that later. Yeah, is a beautiful dog.
How old the breeder or not the breeder?
Speaker 4 (01:05):
I would never uh the people that look like they're
on the cast of Dog the Bounty Hunter that I
adopted her from.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
They said she was five.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
But in talking to a lot of people that have
like adopted rescues, they say that. They always say that
they're five, which I mean they're trying to get rid
of the dogs.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
They're trying to home them.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
So just telling people it's the dog's five, it's like
such a reasonable age.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It's not a puppy, it's not elderly. But then we
took her to.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
The bat and they're like, yeah, dog's like two three,
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
They were younger. They saw yea and more mature dogs.
She's actually younger. I think that's a bonus, more life
to live. Yeah, exactly. I felt like we got a
you know, yeah, we got a deal.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Smoke.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
They determined a dog's age. Do they count as rings? Like,
what do they do teeth?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Their teeth? Yeah, they're dental hygiene illegitily.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I don't know anything.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
This is my first dog ever, so we'll should to
just be talking about dogs. That's the theme of today's
show Dog. Yeah, your dog, love with your rescue. Those
vet bills do pile in you. I want to just
compliment you. Great name.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Magoo is a ten out of ten name for.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
It's from a viral video. It's this it's this girl
like in her basement.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
This is like early like Ebomb's world Internet for all
my elder millennials throwbacks. And there's this video where she's
trying to sing Miss new Booty by Bubba Sparks, but
she's singing for whatever reason.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I found you Miss Magoo.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
So Alex and I just always would say that to
each other, and so naturally when we had a dog,
we said, yes, miss Magoo.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Is her name.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
So her government name is Mimi, but we call her
Miss Magoo.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Oh me, okay, yeah, truly in front of a celebrity,
I'm a little nervous.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I did put her down.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Now talk about me. It's like about you, Chris.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Yeah, okay, okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So there's been since we last got on a call altogether,
a lot has happened in the world of women in
gender expansive skateboarding.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
We've got some exciting things to hit the news desk with.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Starting it off with oops, I did it again, Oops
by Their skateboards just came out this week.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I loved it.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
In a dark time that is this world, there is
like this beacon of hope and light. Every time I
watch it there video, I'm just like always like thank
God for skateboarding. It's just always a great soundtrack, always
pure joy, always a little bit of mix. I loved
seeing the alumni of the veterans of their hop in
I loved the Bay Area coded aspect of it, just
(03:46):
being able to see so many like spots that I
pass by, and a little bit of the East Coast
in there, and just again like just not adhering to
a particular framework. And for that, I always just want
to say thank you for everyone interest you crushed the edit.
I thought it was so good. It made me feel
something and that is a need. Anyone else watched the.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Video, Yeah, yeah, I watched it twice. Actually, I'm just
a huge fan. I like everything that Chandler Burton does.
I like everything that Poe does. There was like a
little segment where she did like a couple manual tricks
on this like bank to manual pad the front side
(04:29):
flip switch manny was so sick. I've always dreamed of
doing that trick. I feel like Poe does all the tricks.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
That I'm like, dang, did you know what I see
that wis doing that the front nose to back black clothes,
like the steppe ledges, things that that I've been seeing
kind of like people are finding setups like that too,
which is like a whole new thing to kind of
unlock in skateboarding, which is like one higher ledge and
one lower ledge, so you're approaching it front side or backside,
and then you end up in a backside or front
side trick. So it's like this kind of I liked
(04:55):
seeing that progress too. And also Keen Keen hasn't skated.
I haven't seen like a lot footage from Keenan a
long time too. And then watching it with Keene me
and Vanessa Tors or watching it the other night and
no complies, like.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Just yeah signature.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Yeah, their signature stuff is like really cool and different too,
and they can tell they put a lot of work
into this and to see them kind of like come
back with a.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Much longer part in Oops was really rad.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
The video is great. It's fourteen minutes. Watch it feel
some joy in your life, like thirty seconds. Honestly, I
love Shag's nollyback heel era. I saw a few nollyback
heels were sick.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
I think what's what's been good about there and unity
in general, just is that the program that they have
that they're working with, like trying to create these video
moments for every drop that they're doing is really getting
to be very high quality with a It's like this
huge group project.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Did you watch the filmer's list at the end of
it too, It was.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Like every you know Abby, like all the filmers, Trish
of course leading the charge, but like I love seeing
how much of an East Coast West Coast.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Group queer project.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Their videos are now also in the video content world
a little not in our space. Surf world nowadays by
Red Bull just came out incredible surf film, filmed so
well over the course of two years. I think it
was like an eighteen month project with the world's best
female surfers. Sky Brown was the coveted skateboarder brought into
(06:19):
the film. Jody Nelson shout out to Moving Mountains to
make that happen and get the budget to say yes
to flying some of the world's best surfers all across
the place to film such a beautiful part. It's forty
five minutes ripping soundtrack, and I think it really just
truly showcases the pure talent that's going on in the
(06:40):
women's surf space.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Alex, I know you and I were talking about it.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I got to go to the premiere for it in
LA and it was so epic to see it all
come together and now it's out, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Nowadays was pretty interesting.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
They brought on Sky Brown, who had a skate part
in a surf video, probably highlighting the fact that Sky
Brown is a much more dynamic skater than a surf
at this point in her career too. But it was
cool to see a Sky Brown part, honestly in the
mix of all that surfing, and she got waves too.
That crossover thing, like that surf skate thing. You know,
(07:13):
there's been like so many iterations of that. You know,
there's like SG mag and there's this kind of idea.
But I do believe that, you know, there is a
group of people that do it all. They're like surfers
and their skaters and their snowboarders, and they're interested in
all those athletes, just the way that like people are
interested in, you know, women's hockey, and they're also interested
in women's basketball, and as long as women are in it,
they're watching it. So maybe maybe that's like the synergy
(07:34):
they're going for with that.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I think the whole concept of the film was like
taking again, I already said this like three times, the
world's best female surfers world titles that are all like
their competitors, like rivals, and putting them together in this
format where what happens when you bring them all on
these trips and watch them excel in different ways?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
And I think that was the whole concept.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
And then yeah, bringing in the skater who's trying to
be out there on the tour, which is Sky Brown.
She's really trying to push her skate career and go
for golds in both disciplines.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Seeing her level up to the standard.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
That all those other surfers are at was really amazing,
and you could see kind of the strength. I think
that's why they wanted to showcase, like she's the skater
invite on the trip, so we're going to show her
and her discipline.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
At her best.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
She's still ripped when it came to a surf par
but yeah, I recommend it for the listeners out there
that are willing to dabble into the surf video realm.
If you haven't seen it, it's such an amazing well
thought out, well created, directed, well dped like aerial shots,
water shots, the works.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
It was covered. It was so beautifully done.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I don't think there's been a feature focus like that
in a long time on behalf of women's surfing.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
So just want to shout out the whole crew behind it.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah, no, the crew behind it in the filming too.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
I just want to ask you guys too, would you
rather film a manual or film surfing?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Water shots and the channel at pipeline?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Personally, speaking of red Bull and surfing, I drink red
Bull every once in a while when I have a
late hockey game and when I'm surfing. My main goal
is to make it out alive. So I'm gonna say manuals.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
As painful as manuals can be, I'm going with that one.
We're staying on the land. I'm not interested in drowning.
I'll drown mentally, but I can always come out of
that one.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Right for me, I'm like, didn't we evolve out of
the water? Like I'm staying. My ancestors worked too hard
for this.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
I'm not going back.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I'm never going back. No, I got one day I'll
be a surfer.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Remember when I took you surfing cats, I'll never forget it.
Surfing has their skateboard, Like, let's try to relate in
the scale. Okay, so there's like tea Hoopo, which is uh,
you know, al Toro.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Tehopo's al Toro. Let's do.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Pipeline is Hollywood High sixteen pipe like proper pipe.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Back door is Hollywood High twelve.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Wallenberg.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Wallenberg is the right, the right down In Southern Australia,
Derby is Bell's Beach.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Also in the news, Rian Durant switching it up, moving
to a different team out of Mew over to Vinyl.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Anyone see that kind of percolating in the internet.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
In the ether, I got texts from my male skate
nerds asking me about it. Yeah, those clips were cool.
She had a couple of clips in the little Vinyl edit.
The She's had just like a really good kick flip,
like I have kblip NB.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
For ye, master of the kick clip, particularly master of
the still kick flip, like put the board down and
do a perfectly pop like easily over two foot cack flip.
Somehow every time, Marian Duran is becoming quite the veteran
in in the women's skate world of things, and has
been on meal.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
It's a nice way of saying it.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I mean what she's been putting out parts and competing
at the highest links, all the highest ranks, all the
way into the Olympics, and I feel like still like
holding it down, like has a holiday named after her
in Arizona.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
I think it's New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
New Mexico has been loyal to me out for the
majority of their professional career, or their whole professional career,
and so to see that changeover and on a company
that is really undefined at this point, like, but who
is Vinyl? What is Vinyl outside of an ad in
a Thrashero mag in a video part here and there.
So cool to see that Mariah's moving over. I think
(11:22):
it'll be a good fit. I think she'll add a
lot to the team. It will be a loss for
me ow, but I feel like the roster over at
MEO is so young, so there's someone ready to like
pop in and take her spot any moment now.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Kristen is Kristen's ready, I'm ready?
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Except Pays You said a lot about like Vinyl two
and like my heart take is like Vinyl seems to
be the brand where pros go to die.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I don't think Vinyl is that great of a brand.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Honestly, their whole take around being super core and going
into shops only two and I love the guys behind it.
I think it's a good mission statement. But I'm like,
what are you guys doing that is different? I mean
the I mean you compare them to the landscape of
other skaters or other brands out there too right now
that are doing like like I mean just we're just
talking about there. They are separating themselves from the pack.
(12:05):
I think that hard Body is too. You know, what
is Vinyl doing that's different right now? Is what I'm
I've yet to see besides being aligned with core shops.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I mean they brought on Mariah Duran. That's different. That's
that's a good step. Oh, it's better than a lot
of brands. I would say at least they're making the effort.
I would suggest there's like a million more people than
they could add to the roster to help like create
some new energy and just different sound to the brand.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
But I'm excited for Maria. I think this is the
right movie.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Yeah, I think, like it's also hard to like be
in Mariah's camp, And I feel like Momiji kind of
falls into this too. It's like, you know, now Momiji
is like putting out parts and like writing for real,
like you know, and stuff like that, which I think
is sick like a post contest move. And I feel
like skaters like Mummigi and like Mariah kind of paving
the way for when that ultimately. I mean, I don't
(12:57):
have a crystal ball, but to me, I could see
that happening with this next gen of like Haysa and
like Chloe Cavell and stuff like that, Like there will
be another ten year old that's better than them in
like the next few years potentially, and then they're gonna
make a move to street skating. And I think it's
kind of cool to see that happening, and I think
the whole industry's trying to figure it out.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
That's kind of how it vibes to me.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
My last thing to add about Maria's Maria has been
on MEW since she was a child, and I think
there's just a natural growth out of your first brand.
It's like your first love, you go, you know, you
ride for that for and writing for me for like
it seems like almost a decade it's time for a
change too, So I could just naturally see her moving
on to a new entity, whether or not my opinions
of that new brand are like primo or not. I
(13:38):
just you know, I applaud her for making the leap.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Hell Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Also in the news, Alex tell us a little bit
about the contest scene, competitive world of it all.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
There's a very very impacted, heavy summer lineup coming and
it's dropping in June. We have events like X Games
doing a very condensed three pete over the summer. We
have Street League, we have Olympic qualifiers in Rome going off.
We have jackalobe Fest, we have feiz Fest. There are
so many comps going on in summer of twenty twenty six,
(14:10):
and I probably would like shout out ask somebody who
knows more about data. I don't know, dumb data or
cold or wiki like to help me with how many
competitions are coming up? But this might be one of
the heaviest summers I've ever seen for comp line ups.
But the only one that matters is Wheels of Fortune,
and that's coming up in two weeks here in May, folks.
(14:31):
We're kicking off the contest circuit and that's why we
got you on the pod today. Kristin Ebling, former executive
director of Skate Like a Girl, pro for meaw creator
of wheels of fortune. Kristin is she took she read
that quote probably in sixth grade from Gandhi that says like,
be the change in the world that you want to see, and.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Lived it her entire life.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
So Kristin went from a young kid that grew up
in Seattle and was like, Hey, why are boys so mean?
And why can't we take up space at a skate
park and then made that her whole identity.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
So it is my whole personality.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Thank you, and we thank you for this on behalf
of all who have been in that position. We thank
you for your service.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Where would this will be without you?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
keVs? I mean, like, tell me, I know so much
about where you are in your.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Life, but can you tell our listeners a little bit
about what's what's in the world of Kristen.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
On the day to day the current version of you.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Okay, hold on, Yes, I don't really have a job
right now, let's start there. No, I've been teaching private
lessons and working part time at the skate shop, doing
other like odd jobs, volunteering a ton. I'm in my
volunteer era right now because I have this break. Basically,
I'm going back to school to get my Master's of
Education at University of Washington. That program doesn't start until
(15:48):
end of September, so I'm going to basically kind of
vibe until then. I'm going to be a skate camp
counselor for Skate Like a Girl this summer.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I'm really excited about that.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
But yeah, like, I've just been volunteering a lot, like uh,
just because I have so much more free time. I'm
basically doing all the things that I like had in
the back of my mind for like the last decade
of like things I wanted to do. So I led
some community cleans and build at the Capitol Hill Courts spot.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
That was really fun.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
I helped on a concrete poor at a local DIY
called Long Acres.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I think I skated that with you guys. Maybe during
COVID there was a new poor there.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Helped build another like wooden ramp DIY in the Central
District in this like covered area. The city gave us
permission to build ramps under and yeah, just volunteering a
town of Skate Like Girl. Also been volunteering a lot
leading up Tools of Fortune. I've been volunteering doing some
grant writing so Yeah, it's been cool. I kind of
just been like coasting and I just needed to like
mentally recover like from all the responsibility for a really
(16:53):
long time.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Okay, so you're still going like full time instead of
reason of coasting was I yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Listing all the but also like how many like how
many years were you at skate like a girl?
Speaker 4 (17:05):
I started there twenty years ago as a teenager, and
I volunteered for like eight years, and then it kind
of was like a part time job and then built
into a full time job. And then I was kind
of just doing stuff in Seattle, and then people in
Portland in the Bay Area were like, Hey, we want
to like get paid to do this too, teach us
how So then I kind of was like, well, shit,
someone's got to manage all this. So then I hired
people around Seattle and then kind of became like the
(17:26):
executive director. So that was like maybe two years of
kind of that like building up scale, like a girl
making it my job posts working at the YMCA. So yeah,
transition there, and then I probably like ten years ish
as executive director.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
I'm not good with details. Something like that that checks
out to me.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I mean, Kristen, you and I have known each other
for quite some time as we are each other's contemporaries.
And you I was growing up in Portland, you were
just above me in Seattle and also being able to
help co direct the Portland chapter.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Just in the early early volunteer era of.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Skate like a girl, where it was really for the
love by the love of skateboarding. I just want to honor,
like it was really hard to do things for free
because at the end of the day there would be
a moment where I'm like, I need a job to
pay for things and keep the lights on, And so
there were so many like y junctures in choosing skateboarding
and choosing responsibilities of life.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
I tried to choose skateboarding as much.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
As possible, but I always honored that, like you made
that like your full commitment no matter what, you invested
and created something for long haul.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
So yeah, twenty years later, you're passing the torch.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I just want to note when you said you were
like coasting, Yeah, you're fully full time volunteering your efforts.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
You listed off like eight DIY projects that you're doing.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
What's it like to not have like the mental stress
of like the zooms and this and that. That's like,
are you still feeling like you have your identity in
all this? Are you having any struggles with like who
am I if I'm not the executive director of Skate
Like a Girl.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
No, I've been. I've been. Thank you, uh for all
of that. That was really nice and that really means
a lot.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Thank you seriously coming from like my peers, like it's
one thing of some random person I don't know, is like, wow,
good job.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
I'm like thanks, but like literally.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Coming from you guys who I've known forever and you've
seen me at my worst, like, thank you for real.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
But no, I think I was ready to be done
for a while.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
And I think, just like my narrative I guess that
I've worked through in therapy and with lots of friends,
is that I suck around at Scale Girl for a
really long time because I really believe in what we do.
And when you stick around at any job for a
really long time, you kind of just get like moved
up the ladder, so to speak. And I kept being like,
(19:44):
I'll do it, I'll do it. That's just kind of
my personality. I'm like, oh, nobody wants to do it.
I'll do it right. But I think I ultimately got
myself into a position that like is just not not
naturally what I'm built for and where I'm I have
the best energy to put towards or the best like
level of judgment. I like would overthink everything, and like
just being a manager is really hard in general, and
(20:04):
being a manager that's managing people in multiple states and
also just like in a nonprofit space, it's like where's
the next you know, how do I make sure everyone's
paychecks don't bounce?
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Right?
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Like literally, like if I'm being honest, like I probably
slept like three hours a night for like two hours
two years straight. And so when you say like disconnecting
my identity, I think, what's been really awesome? Or my
identity from skit like a girl and being the leader.
It's like it's just been such a relief.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
It took a.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
While to transition, but now I'm like sleeping every night
and I'm not having like you know, like I would
like seriously like I would wake at like three am
with like a crazy quarters all spike thinking about like
oh my god, Like I did I say that to.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Mean to someone? Fuck? That email was rude?
Speaker 4 (20:47):
I need to rewrite it, like, you know, I need
to follow up with them, like just like I just
have social anxiety depression, Like I have a lot of
things like and so yeah, I just I stuck it
out for a really long time. And so it feels
really good, not financially, but it feels really good to
now be putting my energy into like making witch Hunt
(21:08):
as funny as possible this year. Like I got like
a barbiejeep in my backyard that I've been painting. We're
gonna do tricks over the car at WAFF this year,
so don't miss it. But yeah, it feels really good
to be putting my energy there, and like I said,
have time to do the things that I feel good at,
so like creative projects, community like build days like stuff
like that. Yeah, but yeah, I was ready to be
(21:31):
done with being the leader for a long time. And
I'm really grateful of the for the people that are
continuing to like, you know, carry the torch. And it's
been really cool to like mentor and still support them
to still be connected. That was a big goal of mine,
is I didn't want to leave like deuces, Like I
wanted to leave fully in connection and community with the
people that were staying on being a resource for them.
(21:53):
That was really important to me, not to be like smothering,
but to kind of toe this line of like I'm
here for.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
You if you need it.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
And it's been really cool that like Erica the new
ed will just like call me, like, hey, can I
talk for a second.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
I just got a question, And it feels really good
to like give that.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Advice and connect with her, and also feels healing in
a way that I'm like, oh the things that I
was like in mental turmoil over now I get to
like talk with somebody and help her make a better choice,
or help her make a more guided, grounded choice, or
at least just be their support because I know how
isolating it hard a leadership world can be. So I
just have a tremendous amount of like empathy and care
(22:29):
for the team that's continuing to run things, and being
able to connect with Seattle team and stuff help them
with stuff just feels really good. So I'm stoked.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
So here we go.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Yeah, Honestly, I'm really excited to have a role in
the future that's like working directly with kids, and I'm
gonna do a program that's like history and special ed.
So my undergraduate degrees in history and labor studies. So
I'm really excited to bring that potentially and do special
ed and be able to have some like ability to
pivot and adapt, you know, in two years when I
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graduate with jobs and the program that I got into,
I was ultimately like sold on because I don't have
to go to school in the summer.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Second thing is that it's night classes, so I have
the whole day. So I'm looking for some sort of
like part time type job. So, like gu said, I've
been working a little bit thirty fifth doing some private lessons,
so hopefully I can keep doing that and I have
a few years to kind of, yeah, just be a student,
which is really exciting. Like I loved school, so yeah,
just excited. It just feels good to be doing something
that you feel good at. Whereas like it got to
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a point with Scale Girl in my career as ed
being like wow, I'm just like really not good at this.
I know that it's hard, but also like I feel
not good at it, and like now to be like, oh,
like I am really good at teaching skating.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I am good at coming up with stupid ideas for which.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Hunt, like, you know, and to be able to like
heal myself because I felt so wrong, I felt ashamed.
I felt really like I failed a lot. And you know,
now I know, like, oh, like I am important and
good in this world and I don't have to be
good at everything, and so that just feels really like freeing.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
I guess.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Yeah, I love how serious the conversation has like been
getting in like like very earnest, and you're wearing a
witch hat.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
I'm so like lucky to have like a partner to
like support me through this transition. I'm lucky to have
earned decent money and saved and so I'm not like stressing,
you know how am I gonna pay my mortgage?
Speaker 3 (24:28):
You know?
Speaker 4 (24:29):
And I have time to go back to school and
hopefully I can get some scholarships and it'll continue to
be chilling or you know, like I said, my programs
at night so I could get a full time job.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
So we'll see. Yeah, I'm just excited and stoked for
the next chapter for.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Real, speaking of a leave of absence, we'll be right
back after this short ad break.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
And you said your earlier degree history and a little
bit of labor studies in there and then I feel
like we've always talked about for the people, by the people.
Let's talk about unions. But like, what's going on in
your opinion with skateboarding in the industry and where it's
getting it wrong right now or where it's getting it right,
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Like i'd love to hear your take.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
I think I just like stay focused on what I
like and what I'm hyped on, and I take what
I want leave the rest, Like I just for so
long at scale like a girl, i'd really be critically
looking at the industry.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
And I know this sounds like maybe.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Like toxic positivity or like whatever, but like I just
like go on YouTube and I watch like a Nelly
Morble edit and I'm like, fuck, yes, makes me want
to go skate other like edits like from there and
stuff like that, like are really hype me up, And
I just kind of stay focused there. I just the
industry is like it's hard because I don't know like
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the ins and outs, and like you know, I think
there's some things that are really beautiful about skating, like
how interest brands are with like giving stuff out, Like
if you compare like a youth experience of being a
skateboarder versus like playing baseball.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
It's like you don't go to a baseball tournament and like.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Franklin Gloves is like giving out batting gloves and three
gloves to everybody and you're not getting a box because
you fucking hit a triple last game, like you know
what I mean.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Like, I do think that's really cool that skateboarding is
like that.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
And I hope it remains that way because that was
really cool as a kid, you know. But I just
think about, you know, the economic sustainability of brands and
like just you know, working at a skate shop seeing
what brands are selling and stuff, it's just like interesting,
and I just I don't know enough about the back
end and the money of it to be like, you know, ultimately,
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it would be really cool if there was like a
skaters union and people could have like health insurance as
like a basic thing.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
That's a dream.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
But it's also hard when I just am seeing brands
got a business in like big staples like PS Sticks
is gone. I'm like Devis, I'm on my last PS sticks,
me outboard, I'm having a crisis, So I'm like, what
am I going to skate? Like I've been skating this
board for way too long. It is so beyond gone.
But like you know, that's one part of the skate
industry that I was like, damn, Like times are hard,
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So I don't know. Again, a girl can dream. It
would be cool if skaters when we're taken care of,
But I just don't know. I don't know if that's
even possible, and I don't want to be negative, but yeah,
like I said, my focus on skating is I just
I watch what I like and just kind of leave
the rest.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
But talking about like what you like, I think that
one of the best parts of you, Kristen are One
of your biggest legacies is the amount of vision and
creative ideas that you've inserted into skateboarding. Wheels of Fortune,
your creation, which is in his thirteenth year now running
all of the projects that you did with with with
skate Witches, the stuff you did with Crux, Like creatively,
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where do you like, what do you want to see
more of in skateboarding? More people making like homie videos
and like collect videos. My friend Carl shout out, Carl
Hager is like working on making videos. They just made
like a double down video from a trip to Mexico
and like they're not waiting for like vans to pay for.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
It, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
They all work jobs, they pull their money together, They
get an airbnb, they get someone that's down to film,
and they go and make it happen.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Like I think that's really cool. And there's like a.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Level of like DIY authenticity whatever buzzword you want to
insert that like just comes from that that you just
like can't get out of, like a footwear brand video
no offense in my opinion, like it's the heart and
the soul and so yeah, more like shitty edits, homie edits,
Like I love that, That's what hypes me up. And more
like street skating, fixing spots, building spots just like not
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again not waiting and you know, pulling.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Your money as a community and just more DIY.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
I think I think is sick and like it get
hyped up when I hear of like, oh that one
guy that you know works with that big brand, oh
on the side, he actually goes in like a knob
shit and like bondo stuff. I'm like, yes, like just
more people just getting after and I think is really cool,
Like I just don't really care about like the next
graphic drop or like industry thing. I don't know, like
I've kind of stopped paying attention to that, and I
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just that's another thing that's been really relief, relieving from
not being the ed of skate like a girl and
like my role lets still impact this year being like
really small and back end is like just kind of wanted,
like to be a regular guy and invest in my
local scene and fixing spots and building spots. And that's
why I've put so much energy there helping with other
video projects and stuff like that. I think is is
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really cool and I love to see the DIY aspects,
So yeah, more of that.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
What I think is interesting is like your transition as
you like are aging in skateboarding and becoming you know,
you just said that I want to be a regular guy, right.
Who are the kids right now that you're seeing, like
you mentioned Carly, that are like you, that are have
excitement and ideas and are out there doing it that
you want to help foster.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Honestly, anybody.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Carli obviously is like my local fave Nina is another
local skater in Nina Aguilar that's like really getting after
it and traveling.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Still doing contest stuff.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
But she was in like a little Jenkum you know,
the little like skate park profiles. That was really cool
to see. There's some skaters down in Portland. There's this
young person Mara who's been shooting photos and filming and stuff.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
That's really cool.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Yeah, Nelly, I'm a huge fan of obviously, Like I
don't even like know her, but like I love like
watching her stuff and skaters like Po Georgia Martin. Like
skaters like that I see getting at in the streets.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
I think is really cool.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
I'd love to talk to them and help. I would
rub brick a spot for them.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Yeah, but yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Izzy Cooper is another homie. She's moved to SF, but
like she's like, hey, can you explain to me how
to Bondo or whatever? So I like send like a
five minute audio message explaining it in like extreme detail,
and then she sends me a clip like three days later.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
I'm like yes, Like, I don't know, I'm just hyped
on that.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
So if anybody wants to bang my line about Bondo
Bondo support hotline.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Hit me up.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
I'm ready for your YouTube channel. That's what I'm hearing.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
I know you're off Instagram, which, by the way, like
incredible feat to be Free of the prison that is
the Endless Doom scrowl uh YouTube.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Come on, let's see it. Let's get you fucking fixing
up the world spots.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
I just see like my Benda girl era Daddy Daddy,
I got, I.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Need some more silver hair. Funny story about him.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Alex and I bought this house right, and Alex is
like on YouTube all the time, like watching like how
to fix fucking your basement.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Work separate of Alex White. Let's just get that I
could be your husband real talk.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
And I'm like, oh, that guy looks familiar.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
And I was like just kind of like it's just
like an old white guy, like they all look the same,
you know.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
And then I watched him and I was like, wait,
his voice sounds similar.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
And then I was like on YouTube later and like
a bender girl like skate YouTube video popped up and
I was like, it's the same, and I like went
and I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
He has a whole like home improvement like handyman.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
YouTube channel that's huge, but he also has like a
skate YouTube, which I didn't know. And I was like,
so me and my husband are watching the same YouTuber
but just in different worlds, which I thought was really funny.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Okay, so we're in your era of.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Giving back locally, which is always the most rewarding, reconnecting
to just your absolute scene and appear the purest way, open,
open eyes, and it sounds like there's just like you're
not like trying to like fix the industry.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
You're letting it just do what it does.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
What are your hopes? I feel like we didn't give
a good intro. You know, you're not the executive director
of Skate Like Girl, but if you're, if you're listening
and Skate Like Girl isn't in your orbit, I would
love for you to just kind of explain, like what
is the organization and I'd love to hear what your
hopes are for its future because it is so important.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
I mean, people have maybe heard.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Skate like a Girl, but what is Skate Like a
Girl as an organization for skateboarding.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
The mission is just to make skateboarding more inclusive, and
that's so broad, and it really started started back in
two thousand from people like Holly Sheehan and Flir Larson.
They were kind of like our co founders and like
The first event was like getting a bunch of women,
like adults to a coffee shop, I think, like the Bulldog.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
News or whatever.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
In Olympia, Washington, they built boards and they took the
bus to the Olympia skate Park and then they taught
them how to skate, so very dioy and then they
started doing like contests and then like Jamie Yes would
come or like Vanessa or Amy would come on the
way up to like Slim City jam you know. And
then yeah, they moved up to Seattle, and then they
met Nancy Chang, who was like, can I turn this
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into like a five O one C three nonprofit as
part of my public admin master's program?
Speaker 3 (33:44):
And they're like sure, So.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Nancy turned it into a five O one C three.
And that's about the time that little o' me saw
a flyer on MySpace dot com for a girls skate
contest and I was like, girls not skate, you know,
Like I.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Was like, weare you talking about?
Speaker 4 (34:00):
And I pulled up to the event and it was
funny because I went on a skate trip actually to
visit alex in person. So I did a little road
trip to California with my friends, skated with Alex, and
then I came back in time to go to the
Skate Like a Girl contest, and I was like blown away.
Like there was like girls, queer people, kids, families like
all over the skateboarding this was my local park.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Like the scene completely changed.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
And to me, I was like, Oh, like skateboarding doesn't
have to be this like toxic culture that I'm constantly
trying to like fit in and like beat one of
the dudes. Like I was like, Oh, we could actually
just like change some of the shittier parts of skating
and like it would actually be better for literally everyone.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
How about we do that?
Speaker 4 (34:36):
So like that's kind of my like you know, like
Layman's term way of saying what scale.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Like girl is. It's like, let's try to like just
make it a little bit better, a little bit more inclusive.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
And so it's taking a variety different pass you know,
Like we started just doing like girls skate clinics, and
then it turned into like Ladies Nights, but then then
evolved into women in trans sessions, and like we host
those now in Seattle, Portland, and Bay once or twice
a week, and you know, that's a beautiful space for
people that have never skated before moms, eight year old girls.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Trans kids like can come and learn to skate and
then build community. And I see them go through the program,
you know, and then now they just come to open
skate or they just don't even come anymore. They had
their own crew. Great, you know.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
So it's like one gateway in and then you know,
another thing is like a lot of teenagers were showing
up at one point, and so it was like, yeah,
let's make a program for the teenagers to get their
community service hours and build their resumes for college. You know,
so started the Yes program shout out and Nancy started that,
and yeah, like there's just so many different programs.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
You know.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
We'd done Queer Transkate camp with like Leo Baker and
then he went on to do NYCSP stuff. Wheels of
Fortune is another example of like, you know, I had
the experience of going to like the Goofy versus regular
event and there was like a girls contest like nine
in the morning, you know, and I was like, this
is dumb, Like our prize check is like two hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Well, if our prize is gonna be twounre.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Bucks, I want I want to run it, like you know,
so yeah, just kind of like seeing things that kind
of suck in the skateboarding world and trying to make
it a little bit better. And so yeah and yeah,
the official mission is to create a more eclusive community by
promoting confidence, leadership, and social justice through skating. But in reality,
it's just like noticing who's not showing up, what kind
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of sucks, and just trying to make it a little
bit better.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Hey, everyone, I go to go bondo a quick spot.
We'll be right back. You're twenty years into this thing.
You've learned a lot.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
For those that aren't on the West Coast and can't
get to a chapter that is Seattle, Portland or San Francisco, skateboarding.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Is alive and world worldwide.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Like, what is the easiest way to take up some
space and feel good at a skate park? Are there
any like tips that you're like, this has just been
universal knowledge I've learned over and over again in these
twenty years of doing it that you could pass on
to some of the listeners.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
Gosh, I think it's it's hard to say, because like
I grew up in Seattle, which is such like a
liberal little like bubble, very progressive, right and I came
into skally girl and I already started, right, so it
was already this momentum. And I'd say, it's hard for
me to be like preachy to somebody that lives in
like Knoxville, Tennessee, Like, listen, download Canva, make a flyer
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queer skate Knoxville, get an Instagram account, Like I could.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
Like tell you know what I mean, but I'm just like,
I don't know. There's a few different strategies.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
You could go to the skate park at nine in
the morning before anybody gets there.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
That's a classic, certified classic.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
I spent many years skating alone in my garage, let
me tell you, not great, but I got really good.
So then when I got brave enough to go to
the skate park, people were like damn. And then you
know that was a little bit easier, right. So last
thing I'll say is being in skate like a girl
for a really long time. We would get an email
from someone in Knoxville. They would be like, hey, what's
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up my daughter's skates, Like you know, can you can
we start girls skate Knoxville, Like please come to our town.
Then I'd get another email from someone from the same
city or like really close right, and they'd be like, yo,
I just started Girl Skate Knoxville, like can you boost
our flyer? I'm like, okay, we got to be connecting
the dots a little bit more locally, like, so definitely
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reach out to people like skate like a girl or
there's groups all over now there's two D three in Florida,
there's you know, Bronx Go Skate out of New York.
You know there's crews freaking everywhere. So do that research first,
see if there's somebody locally you can partner up with
before reaching out to me, cause like that'd be cool.
So there might be something already happening, but I wouldn't
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be scared to start your own thing or just start
showing up like your tax dollars paid for the freaking
skate park.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Just go like, just go like.
Speaker 4 (38:48):
And I don't know, I've a lot of mean things
have been said to me, and back then it sucked,
but it honestly fueled me, Like I would not have
had enough energy to do this the last twenty years
of boys and call me j Loo at the skate
park and when I was sixteen.
Speaker 5 (39:04):
Would you share the recent one where the guy that
used to bully you brought his daughter.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Okay, So if you do this shit for twenty years,
here's what might happen to you. So you might be
a teenager at the Kirkland skate park and all the
boys leave to go street skating and you don't get
invited or you know, when you walk over, they stop talking.
You know, you might play skate against them and they're like, oh, like,
it doesn't matter if you win, Like you're just a girl,
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Like they'll just say all kinds of mean things to you, right,
or just like be passive and not stick up for you.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Right.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
So that might be your experience. And then twenty years later,
this little girl is, you know, trying to skate the
quarter pip and you're like, oh my god, I'm sorry,
am I in your way? And she's like yeah, and
I move out of the way, and I like look
over and I see her dad like you know, and
I'm like.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
You you'll look familiar.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
And then that just might be one of the guys
that was at the skate park you grew up at.
So that was a funny experience. I went over inside,
went up to him and everything. It's all good.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
But it's just like funny that like.
Speaker 4 (40:01):
I'm like, oh yeah, like I'm glad, like my shitty
experience at the skate park that like you somewhat contributed
to now twenty years later translates to your daughter having
a great experience.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
In skating and you're welcome, well done.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
Funny full circle moment there. I've been having a lot
of full circle moments, to be honest. Hashtag girl dad. Uh,
what are some of the other full circle moments? This
is good, let's talk about them. I walked into WT
like my last week of working at Skate like a Girl,
and I again saw face. I'm not great with like
facial recognition. I like saw this person, was like, how
do I know you? And then she's like Christen, it's
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Ashley And I was like and I was like, oh
my god.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
The other girl skater.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
Back in the day, like before I joined Skate Like
a Girl, there was like one other girl skater that
lived on the other side of Seattle. It flashed back
to when we first started doing like girls skate sessions
at that part before it was ats, when it was
called innerspace, and there was like three of us and
at was where we were or it was in her
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space at the time, but that's where we met for
the first time.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
We went and skated.
Speaker 4 (41:04):
We like met each other, we like found each other
on my space and then we like coordinated to go there.
And it was just a trip because she brought her kid, Cosmo,
to come and skate, and they're out there ripping and
like Ashley's skating again and she got her life together.
She's sober now, she's killing it. But yeah, it was
just such a trip and we were just kind of
like looking at each other and she's like, oh my god,
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like look what you made like look and I was
like no, no, no, Like this is a collective effort for sure,
but like yeah, like I was the one that was
crazy enough to be like no, guys, I'm serious, Like listen,
like you're me out. In twenty years, there'll be you know,
a lot of people that want to come to this
space and we'll actually take it over twice a week.
There'll be like thirty people in here, and there's kids,
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and it's a multi generational and there's like queer people,
a trance people like you gotta believe me, you know.
So it was just like funny we were wrapping out, like, dude,
remember when we were literally the only two girls skating
here with like a sea of men, and then now
we're at skate like a Girl WT.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
Night and we've taken it over. So that was another
crazy full circle moment.
Speaker 5 (42:02):
The canon QAnon, the conspiracy theory that you had growing
up that one day would be like this.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
Honestly, I've said this to you a lot too.
Speaker 5 (42:10):
I would have never guessed that this is the world
that we live in now, like the world that you created. Honestly,
it was collective like you are absolutely a visionary in
seeing what could happen too, and every collective does need
a visionary. And when I say you, you were the
one that was crazy enough to say yes, absolutely. In
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twenty years, it's going to be like this and we're
going to do this and I'm going to devote my
life to it, and I'm going to get everybody on
board with it and pull the community together over a
universal goal.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
So thank you. Thanks for doing that.
Speaker 4 (42:40):
Thanks for being a part of it. Couldn't do it
without all my loyal followers.
Speaker 3 (42:46):
What's your hat on right now?
Speaker 2 (42:50):
Which you want to tell some of your loyal followers,
what to do and where to be for Wheels of
Fortune thirteen.
Speaker 4 (42:57):
Wales of Fortune is May fifteenth through seventeenth and Yeattle, Washington.
Friday Night is gonna kick it off with an educational
day with our friends from Tuty Friday, Cava from Bronxkill
Skate and Natalie Porter from Women's Skate History. They're gonna
be doing kind of like an educational day called extra
Credit on Friday at a local community space, ver Projects.
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And then Friday night we're gonna turn it up to eleven.
We got a skate park being built in an old
grocery store building called Quality Flea Center. It's like covered
in graffiti. It's literally a Tony Hawk's pro skater like
video game level. It's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
We got Lemon Boy playing, we got DJ Tubsy, DJ Code,
Abbey Food Drinks.
Speaker 4 (43:40):
It's gonna be a big shabang may or may not
be a Barbiejeep to do tricks over.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (43:49):
So that's Friday night, and then Saturday is witch Hunt
meeting up at Sea Skate lots of which Hunt challenges
this just in Uh, there will be knobs, oh you
made them if you find one of these bad boys
or you find the most you will get a prize.
Speaker 3 (44:07):
We also have secret tapes, so you can find one
of these, you're in luck. But yeah, it's literally like
Easter Egg Hunt this year. No more challenge like totals
of points.
Speaker 4 (44:24):
You know, we're switching it up this year, so you're
gonna collect items and then we're gonna do like some
superlative awards for like best edit, best skater, like stuff
like that. And then yeah, Saturday night we meet back
up at thirty fifth North Skate Shop and instead of
going to the courts, we shut down the street. Finally
just got the permit yesterday. Shout out Sema for her
tenacity with Seattle Department of Transportation. Yeah, we're shutting down
(44:50):
the street and we got some obstacles in the street.
We'll do tricks for cash, and then we'll cap off
that night watching which Hunt clips, getting out awards, LW.
Williams their part dropping, as well as some other footy
from Tacki Joy Factory, nikesb Double Down.
Speaker 3 (45:09):
Yeah, so that's gonna be a hoot and a half.
Speaker 4 (45:12):
And then Sunday's the contest at All Together Skate Park,
So yeah, bring your competitive energy after all that community building.
I want you to bring your freaking game face on
Sunday for this very inclusive jam cell format contest led
by Alex. There'll be a vendor village, okay, so if
you're not into the competition, you can, you know, buy
(45:34):
some trinkets in the parking lot.
Speaker 3 (45:36):
So yeah, that's what's going on.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
That's the waff overview.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
I recommend it if you really feel like this could
be a way to see the skateboarding you want to
be a part of. It's the place to be. So
if you can make it happen, it's coming up. It's
always amazing and also took a year break, so it's
going to be bigger, better than two years ago.
Speaker 1 (45:56):
So yeah, get there. We'll be there. We'd love to
see you real talk.
Speaker 2 (46:00):
But Kristen, honestly such a visionary, an icon, a gift
to skateboarding.
Speaker 1 (46:07):
I love this new chapter for you.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
I feel like you have many more and they're going
to be always given for the community and for the people.
Truly rare when you meet someone that's like, I'm just
going to give myself to others and that's.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
Going to be my riches in this life.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
So it's just cool to watch you become the person
that you continue to become, and I feel like I've
learned so much from you. I don't want this to
be a big thank you letter to Kristin Eveline, but
like for those that have experienced, all that you've done
is just like it deserves the credit because so many
hours that you lost sleeping didn't get that credit.
Speaker 1 (46:41):
So here we are giving it back to you.
Speaker 2 (46:43):
This wouldn't be a good luck show if I didn't
ask you what you need some luck with right now?
Speaker 1 (46:47):
Kristen, do you need any luck going into this next week?
Speaker 3 (46:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (46:50):
A low stress wheels of fortune would be awesome.
Speaker 3 (46:56):
What tons of fun?
Speaker 4 (46:58):
And also I need like part time job that's consistent,
maybe some more private lessons? Well, will's a fortune has
low stress.
Speaker 1 (47:07):
And no injuries?
Speaker 4 (47:08):
Let's say that no injuries, no drama. Drama free walls
is number one?
Speaker 1 (47:11):
Okay? And if people wanted to hit you up for
lessons like how do we find you? What do we do?
Speaker 3 (47:17):
I'm like, do I just give you my number? That
sounds like a bad idea.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
It's a bad idea. But do you have an email?
Speaker 3 (47:23):
Yes? I have an email, but I don't really makes
you have an email.
Speaker 4 (47:28):
Okay, I guess we're not going to pull your hair
on this not you know, I just should have set
up like an email like learn to skate with Kristin
at gmail dot com, which it doesn't exist.
Speaker 3 (47:38):
I guess yeah, because.
Speaker 4 (47:39):
Email Kristin my name k r I S t I
N at skate leger girl dot com works great.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
Is there like a fantasy part time job you want?
Speaker 4 (47:48):
Honestly, if I could teach more private lessons to be awesome,
I've been getting so much out of it because I
feel like the young people that I'm working with, they're
really good and they have such good building blocks. They
just need like a guide to the next thing, and
they just need like little things like oh, when we're
five ohing, like really use our heel, don't put weight
on your front foot, just really lock in that hill
like and they're just like boom, excelling and it feels
(48:10):
really cool. So I've been mostly working with kids right now.
I got three private lesson clients right now, but I'm
working on doing some adult stuff guys summer.
Speaker 1 (48:21):
Yeah, yeah, me too, Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (48:24):
I ideally more of that and then honestly, anything like
writing or skate related would be cool too, creative direction.
If you need me to paint a Barbie jeep restore
rent barbiejeep restoration, I am here for that.
Speaker 2 (48:39):
I was expecting you to be like I want in on,
like the hockey team, though, like the professional women's hockey
team with Seattle like get me.
Speaker 1 (48:46):
I figured you'd be like part time sometime job over there.
But I'm hearing no.
Speaker 4 (48:49):
I made a bold choice, guys that when I started hockey,
I was not going to take take a leadership role.
And it has taken simply every ounce of my core
being to not like sign up to be the captain
when like everyone in the group Chet's like, so who
wants to be captain? For me to not respond, guys,
is like really huge. But I told myself hockey is
(49:10):
going to be my thing that I get to show
up and just play, and that is what it is
because I think I don't regret it. But in skating
it is hard. Like if I go skating and all
WT participants there trying to roll off the curb, I'm like,
what am I gonna do, like work on my trick
or go help them? Of course I'm gonna go help them,
like I've very much given my life to being that person.
(49:30):
And so for hockey, I'm like, I just want to participate.
So no, I don't want to be the social media
manager for the Seattle Torrent. No, but okay, yeah, if
I could just hang out with Hillary Night once, that'd
be cool.
Speaker 2 (49:45):
Never say never. Yeah, I love this new hockey you
I see it. I can't wait to come to one
of your games. It's a fantasy of mine to go.
Like's so scrimmage hockey.
Speaker 1 (49:55):
I don't know is that what you call?
Speaker 3 (49:57):
Get you an?
Speaker 1 (49:58):
I'm pretty like, oh, I just know it's gonna happen.
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
What's up, my skaters, Welcome back to good Luck with That.
Joining me today is Kristin Ebling and Alex Waye. I
am so thrilled to have you guys both on the pod.
And Alex, you're always on the pod.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Hold up, well, I'm glad.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
That you're still thrilled to have me on. Actually, I actually, Magoo,
what was that? She's offended you didn't enjoy her?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah, okay, Magoo reporting live and local from Seattle, Washington.
We're so honored to have you today, she says, thank you.
Incredible for the listeners who can't see this. Christ and
Ebling is holding an adorably perfect angel.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
A brusty white dog.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
It's okay, it's her like an old lady dogday foreshadowing.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
We'll talk about that later. Yeah, is a beautiful dog.
How old the breeder or not the breeder?
Speaker 4 (01:05):
I would never uh the people that look like they're
on the cast of Dog the Bounty Hunter that I
adopted her from.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
They said she was five.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
But in talking to a lot of people that have
like adopted rescues, they say that. They always say that
they're five, which I mean they're trying to get rid
of the dogs.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
They're trying to home them.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
So just telling people it's the dog's five, it's like
such a reasonable age.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It's not a puppy, it's not elderly. But then we
took her to.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
The bat and they're like, yeah, dog's like two three,
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
They were younger. They saw yea and more mature dogs.
She's actually younger. I think that's a bonus, more life
to live. Yeah, exactly. I felt like we got a
you know, yeah, we got a deal.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Smoke.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
They determined a dog's age. Do they count as rings? Like,
what do they do teeth?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Their teeth? Yeah, they're dental hygiene illegitily.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I don't know anything.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
This is my first dog ever, so we'll should to
just be talking about dogs. That's the theme of today's
show Dog. Yeah, your dog, love with your rescue. Those
vet bills do pile in you. I want to just
compliment you. Great name.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Magoo is a ten out of ten name for.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
It's from a viral video. It's this it's this girl
like in her basement.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
This is like early like Ebomb's world Internet for all
my elder millennials throwbacks. And there's this video where she's
trying to sing Miss new Booty by Bubba Sparks, but
she's singing for whatever reason.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I found you Miss Magoo.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
So Alex and I just always would say that to
each other, and so naturally when we had a dog,
we said, yes, miss Magoo.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Is her name.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
So her government name is Mimi, but we call her
Miss Magoo.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Oh me, okay, yeah, truly in front of a celebrity,
I'm a little nervous.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I did put her down.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Now talk about me. It's like about you, Chris.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Yeah, okay, okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So there's been since we last got on a call altogether,
a lot has happened in the world of women in
gender expansive skateboarding.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
We've got some exciting things to hit the news desk with.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Starting it off with oops, I did it again, Oops
by Their skateboards just came out this week.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I loved it.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
In a dark time that is this world, there is
like this beacon of hope and light. Every time I
watch it there video, I'm just like always like thank
God for skateboarding. It's just always a great soundtrack, always
pure joy, always a little bit of mix. I loved
seeing the alumni of the veterans of their hop in
I loved the Bay Area coded aspect of it, just
(03:46):
being able to see so many like spots that I
pass by, and a little bit of the East Coast
in there, and just again like just not adhering to
a particular framework. And for that, I always just want
to say thank you for everyone interest you crushed the edit.
I thought it was so good. It made me feel
something and that is a need. Anyone else watched the.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Video, Yeah, yeah, I watched it twice. Actually, I'm just
a huge fan. I like everything that Chandler Burton does.
I like everything that Poe does. There was like a
little segment where she did like a couple manual tricks
on this like bank to manual pad the front side
(04:29):
flip switch manny was so sick. I've always dreamed of
doing that trick. I feel like Poe does all the tricks.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
That I'm like, dang, did you know what I see
that wis doing that the front nose to back black clothes,
like the steppe ledges, things that that I've been seeing
kind of like people are finding setups like that too,
which is like a whole new thing to kind of
unlock in skateboarding, which is like one higher ledge and
one lower ledge, so you're approaching it front side or backside,
and then you end up in a backside or front
side trick. So it's like this kind of I liked
(04:55):
seeing that progress too. And also Keen Keen hasn't skated.
I haven't seen like a lot footage from Keenan a
long time too. And then watching it with Keene me
and Vanessa Tors or watching it the other night and
no complies, like.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Just yeah signature.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Yeah, their signature stuff is like really cool and different too,
and they can tell they put a lot of work
into this and to see them kind of like come
back with a.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Much longer part in Oops was really rad.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
The video is great. It's fourteen minutes. Watch it feel
some joy in your life, like thirty seconds. Honestly, I
love Shag's nollyback heel era. I saw a few nollyback
heels were sick.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
I think what's what's been good about there and unity
in general, just is that the program that they have
that they're working with, like trying to create these video
moments for every drop that they're doing is really getting
to be very high quality with a It's like this
huge group project.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Did you watch the filmer's list at the end of
it too, It was.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Like every you know Abby, like all the filmers, Trish
of course leading the charge, but like I love seeing
how much of an East Coast West Coast.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Group queer project.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Their videos are now also in the video content world
a little not in our space. Surf world nowadays by
Red Bull just came out incredible surf film, filmed so
well over the course of two years. I think it
was like an eighteen month project with the world's best
female surfers. Sky Brown was the coveted skateboarder brought into
(06:19):
the film. Jody Nelson shout out to Moving Mountains to
make that happen and get the budget to say yes
to flying some of the world's best surfers all across
the place to film such a beautiful part. It's forty
five minutes ripping soundtrack, and I think it really just
truly showcases the pure talent that's going on in the
(06:40):
women's surf space.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Alex, I know you and I were talking about it.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I got to go to the premiere for it in
LA and it was so epic to see it all
come together and now it's out, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Nowadays was pretty interesting.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
They brought on Sky Brown, who had a skate part
in a surf video, probably highlighting the fact that Sky
Brown is a much more dynamic skater than a surf
at this point in her career too. But it was
cool to see a Sky Brown part, honestly in the
mix of all that surfing, and she got waves too.
That crossover thing, like that surf skate thing. You know,
(07:13):
there's been like so many iterations of that. You know,
there's like SG mag and there's this kind of idea.
But I do believe that, you know, there is a
group of people that do it all. They're like surfers
and their skaters and their snowboarders, and they're interested in
all those athletes, just the way that like people are
interested in, you know, women's hockey, and they're also interested
in women's basketball, and as long as women are in it,
they're watching it. So maybe maybe that's like the synergy
(07:34):
they're going for with that.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I think the whole concept of the film was like
taking again, I already said this like three times, the
world's best female surfers world titles that are all like
their competitors, like rivals, and putting them together in this
format where what happens when you bring them all on
these trips and watch them excel in different ways?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
And I think that was the whole concept.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
And then yeah, bringing in the skater who's trying to
be out there on the tour, which is Sky Brown.
She's really trying to push her skate career and go
for golds in both disciplines.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Seeing her level up to the standard.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
That all those other surfers are at was really amazing,
and you could see kind of the strength. I think
that's why they wanted to showcase, like she's the skater
invite on the trip, so we're going to show her
and her discipline.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
At her best.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
She's still ripped when it came to a surf par
but yeah, I recommend it for the listeners out there
that are willing to dabble into the surf video realm.
If you haven't seen it, it's such an amazing well
thought out, well created, directed, well dped like aerial shots,
water shots, the works.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
It was covered. It was so beautifully done.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I don't think there's been a feature focus like that
in a long time on behalf of women's surfing.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
So just want to shout out the whole crew behind it.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah, no, the crew behind it in the filming too.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
I just want to ask you guys too, would you
rather film a manual or film surfing?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Water shots and the channel at pipeline?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Personally, speaking of red Bull and surfing, I drink red
Bull every once in a while when I have a
late hockey game and when I'm surfing. My main goal
is to make it out alive. So I'm gonna say manuals.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
As painful as manuals can be, I'm going with that one.
We're staying on the land. I'm not interested in drowning.
I'll drown mentally, but I can always come out of
that one.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Right for me, I'm like, didn't we evolve out of
the water? Like I'm staying. My ancestors worked too hard
for this.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
I'm not going back.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I'm never going back. No, I got one day I'll
be a surfer.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Remember when I took you surfing cats, I'll never forget it.
Surfing has their skateboard, Like, let's try to relate in
the scale. Okay, so there's like tea Hoopo, which is uh,
you know, al Toro.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Tehopo's al Toro. Let's do.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Pipeline is Hollywood High sixteen pipe like proper pipe.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Back door is Hollywood High twelve.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Wallenberg.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Wallenberg is the right, the right down In Southern Australia,
Derby is Bell's Beach.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Also in the news, Rian Durant switching it up, moving
to a different team out of Mew over to Vinyl.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Anyone see that kind of percolating in the internet.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
In the ether, I got texts from my male skate
nerds asking me about it. Yeah, those clips were cool.
She had a couple of clips in the little Vinyl edit.
The She's had just like a really good kick flip,
like I have kblip NB.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
For ye, master of the kick clip, particularly master of
the still kick flip, like put the board down and
do a perfectly pop like easily over two foot cack flip.
Somehow every time, Marian Duran is becoming quite the veteran
in in the women's skate world of things, and has
been on meal.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
It's a nice way of saying it.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I mean what she's been putting out parts and competing
at the highest links, all the highest ranks, all the
way into the Olympics, and I feel like still like
holding it down, like has a holiday named after her
in Arizona.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
I think it's New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
New Mexico has been loyal to me out for the
majority of their professional career, or their whole professional career,
and so to see that changeover and on a company
that is really undefined at this point, like, but who
is Vinyl? What is Vinyl outside of an ad in
a Thrashero mag in a video part here and there.
So cool to see that Mariah's moving over. I think
(11:22):
it'll be a good fit. I think she'll add a
lot to the team. It will be a loss for
me ow, but I feel like the roster over at
MEO is so young, so there's someone ready to like
pop in and take her spot any moment now.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Kristen is Kristen's ready, I'm ready?
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Except Pays You said a lot about like Vinyl two
and like my heart take is like Vinyl seems to
be the brand where pros go to die.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I don't think Vinyl is that great of a brand.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Honestly, their whole take around being super core and going
into shops only two and I love the guys behind it.
I think it's a good mission statement. But I'm like,
what are you guys doing that is different? I mean
the I mean you compare them to the landscape of
other skaters or other brands out there too right now
that are doing like like I mean just we're just
talking about there. They are separating themselves from the pack.
(12:05):
I think that hard Body is too. You know, what
is Vinyl doing that's different right now? Is what I'm
I've yet to see besides being aligned with core shops.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I mean they brought on Mariah Duran. That's different. That's
that's a good step. Oh, it's better than a lot
of brands. I would say at least they're making the effort.
I would suggest there's like a million more people than
they could add to the roster to help like create
some new energy and just different sound to the brand.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
But I'm excited for Maria. I think this is the
right movie.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Yeah, I think, like it's also hard to like be
in Mariah's camp, And I feel like Momiji kind of
falls into this too. It's like, you know, now Momiji
is like putting out parts and like writing for real,
like you know, and stuff like that, which I think
is sick like a post contest move. And I feel
like skaters like Mummigi and like Mariah kind of paving
the way for when that ultimately. I mean, I don't
(12:57):
have a crystal ball, but to me, I could see
that happening with this next gen of like Haysa and
like Chloe Cavell and stuff like that, Like there will
be another ten year old that's better than them in
like the next few years potentially, and then they're gonna
make a move to street skating. And I think it's
kind of cool to see that happening, and I think
the whole industry's trying to figure it out.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
That's kind of how it vibes to me.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
My last thing to add about Maria's Maria has been
on MEW since she was a child, and I think
there's just a natural growth out of your first brand.
It's like your first love, you go, you know, you
ride for that for and writing for me for like
it seems like almost a decade it's time for a
change too, So I could just naturally see her moving
on to a new entity, whether or not my opinions
of that new brand are like primo or not. I
(13:38):
just you know, I applaud her for making the leap.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Hell Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Also in the news, Alex tell us a little bit
about the contest scene, competitive world of it all.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
There's a very very impacted, heavy summer lineup coming and
it's dropping in June. We have events like X Games
doing a very condensed three pete over the summer. We
have Street League, we have Olympic qualifiers in Rome going off.
We have jackalobe Fest, we have feiz Fest. There are
so many comps going on in summer of twenty twenty six,
(14:10):
and I probably would like shout out ask somebody who
knows more about data. I don't know, dumb data or
cold or wiki like to help me with how many
competitions are coming up? But this might be one of
the heaviest summers I've ever seen for comp line ups.
But the only one that matters is Wheels of Fortune,
and that's coming up in two weeks here in May, folks.
(14:31):
We're kicking off the contest circuit and that's why we
got you on the pod today. Kristin Ebling, former executive
director of Skate Like a Girl, pro for meaw creator
of wheels of fortune. Kristin is she took she read
that quote probably in sixth grade from Gandhi that says like,
be the change in the world that you want to see, and.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Lived it her entire life.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
So Kristin went from a young kid that grew up
in Seattle and was like, Hey, why are boys so mean?
And why can't we take up space at a skate
park and then made that her whole identity.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
So it is my whole personality.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Thank you, and we thank you for this on behalf
of all who have been in that position. We thank
you for your service.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Where would this will be without you?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
keVs? I mean, like, tell me, I know so much
about where you are in your.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Life, but can you tell our listeners a little bit
about what's what's in the world of Kristen.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
On the day to day the current version of you.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Okay, hold on, Yes, I don't really have a job
right now, let's start there. No, I've been teaching private
lessons and working part time at the skate shop, doing
other like odd jobs, volunteering a ton. I'm in my
volunteer era right now because I have this break. Basically,
I'm going back to school to get my Master's of
Education at University of Washington. That program doesn't start until
(15:48):
end of September, so I'm going to basically kind of
vibe until then. I'm going to be a skate camp
counselor for Skate Like a Girl this summer.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I'm really excited about that.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
But yeah, like, I've just been volunteering a lot, like uh,
just because I have so much more free time. I'm
basically doing all the things that I like had in
the back of my mind for like the last decade
of like things I wanted to do. So I led
some community cleans and build at the Capitol Hill Courts spot.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
That was really fun.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
I helped on a concrete poor at a local DIY
called Long Acres.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I think I skated that with you guys. Maybe during
COVID there was a new poor there.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Helped build another like wooden ramp DIY in the Central
District in this like covered area. The city gave us
permission to build ramps under and yeah, just volunteering a
town of Skate Like Girl. Also been volunteering a lot
leading up Tools of Fortune. I've been volunteering doing some
grant writing so Yeah, it's been cool. I kind of
just been like coasting and I just needed to like
mentally recover like from all the responsibility for a really
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long time.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Okay, so you're still going like full time instead of
reason of coasting was I yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Listing all the but also like how many like how
many years were you at skate like a girl?
Speaker 4 (17:05):
I started there twenty years ago as a teenager, and
I volunteered for like eight years, and then it kind
of was like a part time job and then built
into a full time job. And then I was kind
of just doing stuff in Seattle, and then people in
Portland in the Bay Area were like, Hey, we want
to like get paid to do this too, teach us
how So then I kind of was like, well, shit,
someone's got to manage all this. So then I hired
people around Seattle and then kind of became like the
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executive director. So that was like maybe two years of
kind of that like building up scale, like a girl
making it my job posts working at the YMCA. So yeah,
transition there, and then I probably like ten years ish
as executive director.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
I'm not good with details. Something like that that checks
out to me.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I mean, Kristen, you and I have known each other
for quite some time as we are each other's contemporaries.
And you I was growing up in Portland, you were
just above me in Seattle and also being able to
help co direct the Portland chapter.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Just in the early early volunteer era of.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Skate like a girl, where it was really for the
love by the love of skateboarding. I just want to honor,
like it was really hard to do things for free
because at the end of the day there would be
a moment where I'm like, I need a job to
pay for things and keep the lights on, And so
there were so many like y junctures in choosing skateboarding
and choosing responsibilities of life.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
I tried to choose skateboarding as much.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
As possible, but I always honored that, like you made
that like your full commitment no matter what, you invested
and created something for long haul.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
So yeah, twenty years later, you're passing the torch.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I just want to note when you said you were
like coasting, Yeah, you're fully full time volunteering your efforts.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
You listed off like eight DIY projects that you're doing.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
What's it like to not have like the mental stress
of like the zooms and this and that. That's like,
are you still feeling like you have your identity in
all this? Are you having any struggles with like who
am I if I'm not the executive director of Skate
Like a Girl.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
No, I've been. I've been. Thank you, uh for all
of that. That was really nice and that really means
a lot.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Thank you seriously coming from like my peers, like it's
one thing of some random person I don't know, is like, wow,
good job.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
I'm like thanks, but like literally.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Coming from you guys who I've known forever and you've
seen me at my worst, like, thank you for real.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
But no, I think I was ready to be done
for a while.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
And I think, just like my narrative I guess that
I've worked through in therapy and with lots of friends,
is that I suck around at Scale Girl for a
really long time because I really believe in what we do.
And when you stick around at any job for a
really long time, you kind of just get like moved
up the ladder, so to speak. And I kept being like,
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I'll do it, I'll do it. That's just kind of
my personality. I'm like, oh, nobody wants to do it.
I'll do it right. But I think I ultimately got
myself into a position that like is just not not
naturally what I'm built for and where I'm I have
the best energy to put towards or the best like
level of judgment. I like would overthink everything, and like
just being a manager is really hard in general, and
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being a manager that's managing people in multiple states and
also just like in a nonprofit space, it's like where's
the next you know, how do I make sure everyone's
paychecks don't bounce?
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Right?
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Like literally, like if I'm being honest, like I probably
slept like three hours a night for like two hours
two years straight. And so when you say like disconnecting
my identity, I think, what's been really awesome? Or my
identity from skit like a girl and being the leader.
It's like it's just been such a relief.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
It took a.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
While to transition, but now I'm like sleeping every night
and I'm not having like you know, like I would
like seriously like I would wake at like three am
with like a crazy quarters all spike thinking about like
oh my god, Like I did I say that to.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Mean to someone? Fuck? That email was rude?
Speaker 4 (20:47):
I need to rewrite it, like, you know, I need
to follow up with them, like just like I just
have social anxiety depression, Like I have a lot of
things like and so yeah, I just I stuck it
out for a really long time. And so it feels
really good, not financially, but it feels really good to
now be putting my energy into like making witch Hunt
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as funny as possible this year. Like I got like
a barbiejeep in my backyard that I've been painting. We're
gonna do tricks over the car at WAFF this year,
so don't miss it. But yeah, it feels really good
to be putting my energy there, and like I said,
have time to do the things that I feel good at,
so like creative projects, community like build days like stuff
like that. Yeah, but yeah, I was ready to be
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done with being the leader for a long time. And
I'm really grateful of the for the people that are
continuing to like, you know, carry the torch. And it's
been really cool to like mentor and still support them
to still be connected. That was a big goal of mine,
is I didn't want to leave like deuces, Like I
wanted to leave fully in connection and community with the
people that were staying on being a resource for them.
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That was really important to me, not to be like smothering,
but to kind of toe this line of like I'm
here for.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
You if you need it.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
And it's been really cool that like Erica the new
ed will just like call me, like, hey, can I
talk for a second.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
I just got a question, And it feels really good
to like give that.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Advice and connect with her, and also feels healing in
a way that I'm like, oh the things that I
was like in mental turmoil over now I get to
like talk with somebody and help her make a better choice,
or help her make a more guided, grounded choice, or
at least just be their support because I know how
isolating it hard a leadership world can be. So I
just have a tremendous amount of like empathy and care
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for the team that's continuing to run things, and being
able to connect with Seattle team and stuff help them
with stuff just feels really good. So I'm stoked.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
So here we go.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Yeah, Honestly, I'm really excited to have a role in
the future that's like working directly with kids, and I'm
gonna do a program that's like history and special ed.
So my undergraduate degrees in history and labor studies. So
I'm really excited to bring that potentially and do special
ed and be able to have some like ability to
pivot and adapt, you know, in two years when I
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graduate with jobs and the program that I got into,
I was ultimately like sold on because I don't have
to go to school in the summer.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Second thing is that it's night classes, so I have
the whole day. So I'm looking for some sort of
like part time type job. So, like gu said, I've
been working a little bit thirty fifth doing some private lessons,
so hopefully I can keep doing that and I have
a few years to kind of, yeah, just be a student,
which is really exciting. Like I loved school, so yeah,
just excited. It just feels good to be doing something
that you feel good at. Whereas like it got to
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a point with Scale Girl in my career as ed
being like wow, I'm just like really not good at this.
I know that it's hard, but also like I feel
not good at it, and like now to be like, oh,
like I am really good at teaching skating.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I am good at coming up with stupid ideas for which.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Hunt, like, you know, and to be able to like
heal myself because I felt so wrong, I felt ashamed.
I felt really like I failed a lot. And you know,
now I know, like, oh, like I am important and
good in this world and I don't have to be
good at everything, and so that just feels really like freeing.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
I guess.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Yeah, I love how serious the conversation has like been
getting in like like very earnest, and you're wearing a
witch hat.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
I'm so like lucky to have like a partner to
like support me through this transition. I'm lucky to have
earned decent money and saved and so I'm not like stressing,
you know how am I gonna pay my mortgage?
Speaker 3 (24:28):
You know?
Speaker 4 (24:29):
And I have time to go back to school and
hopefully I can get some scholarships and it'll continue to
be chilling or you know, like I said, my programs
at night so I could get a full time job.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
So we'll see. Yeah, I'm just excited and stoked for
the next chapter for.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Real, speaking of a leave of absence, we'll be right
back after this short ad break.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
And you said your earlier degree history and a little
bit of labor studies in there and then I feel
like we've always talked about for the people, by the people.
Let's talk about unions. But like, what's going on in
your opinion with skateboarding in the industry and where it's
getting it wrong right now or where it's getting it right,
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Like i'd love to hear your take.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
I think I just like stay focused on what I
like and what I'm hyped on, and I take what
I want leave the rest, Like I just for so
long at scale like a girl, i'd really be critically
looking at the industry.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
And I know this sounds like maybe.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Like toxic positivity or like whatever, but like I just
like go on YouTube and I watch like a Nelly
Morble edit and I'm like, fuck, yes, makes me want
to go skate other like edits like from there and
stuff like that, like are really hype me up, And
I just kind of stay focused there. I just the
industry is like it's hard because I don't know like
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the ins and outs, and like you know, I think
there's some things that are really beautiful about skating, like
how interest brands are with like giving stuff out, Like
if you compare like a youth experience of being a
skateboarder versus like playing baseball.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
It's like you don't go to a baseball tournament and like.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Franklin Gloves is like giving out batting gloves and three
gloves to everybody and you're not getting a box because
you fucking hit a triple last game, like you know
what I mean.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Like, I do think that's really cool that skateboarding is
like that.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
And I hope it remains that way because that was
really cool as a kid, you know. But I just
think about, you know, the economic sustainability of brands and
like just you know, working at a skate shop seeing
what brands are selling and stuff, it's just like interesting,
and I just I don't know enough about the back
end and the money of it to be like, you know, ultimately,
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it would be really cool if there was like a
skaters union and people could have like health insurance as
like a basic thing.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
That's a dream.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
But it's also hard when I just am seeing brands
got a business in like big staples like PS Sticks
is gone. I'm like Devis, I'm on my last PS sticks,
me outboard, I'm having a crisis, So I'm like, what
am I going to skate? Like I've been skating this
board for way too long. It is so beyond gone.
But like you know, that's one part of the skate
industry that I was like, damn, Like times are hard,
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So I don't know. Again, a girl can dream. It
would be cool if skaters when we're taken care of,
But I just don't know. I don't know if that's
even possible, and I don't want to be negative, but yeah,
like I said, my focus on skating is I just
I watch what I like and just kind of leave
the rest.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
But talking about like what you like, I think that
one of the best parts of you, Kristen are One
of your biggest legacies is the amount of vision and
creative ideas that you've inserted into skateboarding. Wheels of Fortune,
your creation, which is in his thirteenth year now running
all of the projects that you did with with with
skate Witches, the stuff you did with Crux, Like creatively,
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where do you like, what do you want to see
more of in skateboarding? More people making like homie videos
and like collect videos. My friend Carl shout out, Carl
Hager is like working on making videos. They just made
like a double down video from a trip to Mexico
and like they're not waiting for like vans to pay for.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
It, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
They all work jobs, they pull their money together, They
get an airbnb, they get someone that's down to film,
and they go and make it happen.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Like I think that's really cool. And there's like a.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Level of like DIY authenticity whatever buzzword you want to
insert that like just comes from that that you just
like can't get out of, like a footwear brand video
no offense in my opinion, like it's the heart and
the soul and so yeah, more like shitty edits, homie edits,
Like I love that, That's what hypes me up. And more
like street skating, fixing spots, building spots just like not
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again not waiting and you know, pulling.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Your money as a community and just more DIY.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
I think I think is sick and like it get
hyped up when I hear of like, oh that one
guy that you know works with that big brand, oh
on the side, he actually goes in like a knob
shit and like bondo stuff. I'm like, yes, like just
more people just getting after and I think is really cool,
Like I just don't really care about like the next
graphic drop or like industry thing. I don't know, like
I've kind of stopped paying attention to that, and I
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just that's another thing that's been really relief, relieving from
not being the ed of skate like a girl and
like my role lets still impact this year being like
really small and back end is like just kind of wanted,
like to be a regular guy and invest in my
local scene and fixing spots and building spots. And that's
why I've put so much energy there helping with other
video projects and stuff like that. I think is is
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really cool and I love to see the DIY aspects,
So yeah, more of that.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
What I think is interesting is like your transition as
you like are aging in skateboarding and becoming you know,
you just said that I want to be a regular guy, right.
Who are the kids right now that you're seeing, like
you mentioned Carly, that are like you, that are have
excitement and ideas and are out there doing it that
you want to help foster.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Honestly, anybody.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Carli obviously is like my local fave Nina is another
local skater in Nina Aguilar that's like really getting after
it and traveling.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Still doing contest stuff.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
But she was in like a little Jenkum you know,
the little like skate park profiles. That was really cool
to see. There's some skaters down in Portland. There's this
young person Mara who's been shooting photos and filming and stuff.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
That's really cool.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Yeah, Nelly, I'm a huge fan of obviously, Like I
don't even like know her, but like I love like
watching her stuff and skaters like Po Georgia Martin. Like
skaters like that I see getting at in the streets.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
I think is really cool.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
I'd love to talk to them and help. I would
rub brick a spot for them.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Yeah, but yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Izzy Cooper is another homie. She's moved to SF, but
like she's like, hey, can you explain to me how
to Bondo or whatever? So I like send like a
five minute audio message explaining it in like extreme detail,
and then she sends me a clip like three days later.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
I'm like yes, Like, I don't know, I'm just hyped
on that.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
So if anybody wants to bang my line about Bondo
Bondo support hotline.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Hit me up.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
I'm ready for your YouTube channel. That's what I'm hearing.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
I know you're off Instagram, which, by the way, like
incredible feat to be Free of the prison that is
the Endless Doom scrowl uh YouTube.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Come on, let's see it. Let's get you fucking fixing
up the world spots.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
I just see like my Benda girl era Daddy Daddy,
I got, I.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Need some more silver hair. Funny story about him.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Alex and I bought this house right, and Alex is
like on YouTube all the time, like watching like how
to fix fucking your basement.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Work separate of Alex White. Let's just get that I
could be your husband real talk.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
And I'm like, oh, that guy looks familiar.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
And I was like just kind of like it's just
like an old white guy, like they all look the same,
you know.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
And then I watched him and I was like, wait,
his voice sounds similar.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
And then I was like on YouTube later and like
a bender girl like skate YouTube video popped up and
I was like, it's the same, and I like went
and I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
He has a whole like home improvement like handyman.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
YouTube channel that's huge, but he also has like a
skate YouTube, which I didn't know. And I was like,
so me and my husband are watching the same YouTuber
but just in different worlds, which I thought was really funny.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Okay, so we're in your era of.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Giving back locally, which is always the most rewarding, reconnecting
to just your absolute scene and appear the purest way, open,
open eyes, and it sounds like there's just like you're
not like trying to like fix the industry.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
You're letting it just do what it does.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
What are your hopes? I feel like we didn't give
a good intro. You know, you're not the executive director
of Skate Like Girl, but if you're, if you're listening
and Skate Like Girl isn't in your orbit, I would
love for you to just kind of explain, like what
is the organization and I'd love to hear what your
hopes are for its future because it is so important.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
I mean, people have maybe heard.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Skate like a Girl, but what is Skate Like a
Girl as an organization for skateboarding.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
The mission is just to make skateboarding more inclusive, and
that's so broad, and it really started started back in
two thousand from people like Holly Sheehan and Flir Larson.
They were kind of like our co founders and like
The first event was like getting a bunch of women,
like adults to a coffee shop, I think, like the Bulldog.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
News or whatever.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
In Olympia, Washington, they built boards and they took the
bus to the Olympia skate Park and then they taught
them how to skate, so very dioy and then they
started doing like contests and then like Jamie Yes would
come or like Vanessa or Amy would come on the
way up to like Slim City jam you know. And
then yeah, they moved up to Seattle, and then they
met Nancy Chang, who was like, can I turn this
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into like a five O one C three nonprofit as
part of my public admin master's program?
Speaker 3 (33:44):
And they're like sure, So.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Nancy turned it into a five O one C three.
And that's about the time that little o' me saw
a flyer on MySpace dot com for a girls skate
contest and I was like, girls not skate, you know,
Like I.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Was like, weare you talking about?
Speaker 4 (34:00):
And I pulled up to the event and it was
funny because I went on a skate trip actually to
visit alex in person. So I did a little road
trip to California with my friends, skated with Alex, and
then I came back in time to go to the
Skate Like a Girl contest, and I was like blown away.
Like there was like girls, queer people, kids, families like
all over the skateboarding this was my local park.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Like the scene completely changed.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
And to me, I was like, Oh, like skateboarding doesn't
have to be this like toxic culture that I'm constantly
trying to like fit in and like beat one of
the dudes. Like I was like, Oh, we could actually
just like change some of the shittier parts of skating
and like it would actually be better for literally everyone.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
How about we do that?
Speaker 4 (34:36):
So like that's kind of my like you know, like
Layman's term way of saying what scale.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Like girl is. It's like, let's try to like just
make it a little bit better, a little bit more inclusive.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
And so it's taking a variety different pass you know,
Like we started just doing like girls skate clinics, and
then it turned into like Ladies Nights, but then then
evolved into women in trans sessions, and like we host
those now in Seattle, Portland, and Bay once or twice
a week, and you know, that's a beautiful space for
people that have never skated before moms, eight year old girls.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Trans kids like can come and learn to skate and
then build community. And I see them go through the program,
you know, and then now they just come to open
skate or they just don't even come anymore. They had
their own crew. Great, you know.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
So it's like one gateway in and then you know,
another thing is like a lot of teenagers were showing
up at one point, and so it was like, yeah,
let's make a program for the teenagers to get their
community service hours and build their resumes for college. You know,
so started the Yes program shout out and Nancy started that,
and yeah, like there's just so many different programs.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
You know.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
We'd done Queer Transkate camp with like Leo Baker and
then he went on to do NYCSP stuff. Wheels of
Fortune is another example of like, you know, I had
the experience of going to like the Goofy versus regular
event and there was like a girls contest like nine
in the morning, you know, and I was like, this
is dumb, Like our prize check is like two hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Well, if our prize is gonna be twounre.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Bucks, I want I want to run it, like you know,
so yeah, just kind of like seeing things that kind
of suck in the skateboarding world and trying to make
it a little bit better. And so yeah and yeah,
the official mission is to create a more eclusive community by
promoting confidence, leadership, and social justice through skating. But in reality,
it's just like noticing who's not showing up, what kind
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of sucks, and just trying to make it a little
bit better.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Hey, everyone, I go to go bondo a quick spot.
We'll be right back. You're twenty years into this thing.
You've learned a lot.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
For those that aren't on the West Coast and can't
get to a chapter that is Seattle, Portland or San Francisco, skateboarding.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Is alive and world worldwide.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Like, what is the easiest way to take up some
space and feel good at a skate park? Are there
any like tips that you're like, this has just been
universal knowledge I've learned over and over again in these
twenty years of doing it that you could pass on
to some of the listeners.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
Gosh, I think it's it's hard to say, because like
I grew up in Seattle, which is such like a
liberal little like bubble, very progressive, right and I came
into skally girl and I already started, right, so it
was already this momentum. And I'd say, it's hard for
me to be like preachy to somebody that lives in
like Knoxville, Tennessee, Like, listen, download Canva, make a flyer
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queer skate Knoxville, get an Instagram account, Like I could.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
Like tell you know what I mean, but I'm just like,
I don't know. There's a few different strategies.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
You could go to the skate park at nine in
the morning before anybody gets there.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
That's a classic, certified classic.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
I spent many years skating alone in my garage, let
me tell you, not great, but I got really good.
So then when I got brave enough to go to
the skate park, people were like damn. And then you
know that was a little bit easier, right. So last
thing I'll say is being in skate like a girl
for a really long time. We would get an email
from someone in Knoxville. They would be like, hey, what's
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up my daughter's skates, Like you know, can you can
we start girls skate Knoxville, Like please come to our town.
Then I'd get another email from someone from the same
city or like really close right, and they'd be like, yo,
I just started Girl Skate Knoxville, like can you boost
our flyer? I'm like, okay, we got to be connecting
the dots a little bit more locally, like, so definitely
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reach out to people like skate like a girl or
there's groups all over now there's two D three in Florida,
there's you know, Bronx Go Skate out of New York.
You know there's crews freaking everywhere. So do that research first,
see if there's somebody locally you can partner up with
before reaching out to me, cause like that'd be cool.
So there might be something already happening, but I wouldn't
(38:39):
be scared to start your own thing or just start
showing up like your tax dollars paid for the freaking
skate park.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Just go like, just go like.
Speaker 4 (38:48):
And I don't know, I've a lot of mean things
have been said to me, and back then it sucked,
but it honestly fueled me, Like I would not have
had enough energy to do this the last twenty years
of boys and call me j Loo at the skate
park and when I was sixteen.
Speaker 5 (39:04):
Would you share the recent one where the guy that
used to bully you brought his daughter.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Okay, So if you do this shit for twenty years,
here's what might happen to you. So you might be
a teenager at the Kirkland skate park and all the
boys leave to go street skating and you don't get
invited or you know, when you walk over, they stop talking.
You know, you might play skate against them and they're like, oh, like,
it doesn't matter if you win, Like you're just a girl,
(39:31):
Like they'll just say all kinds of mean things to you, right,
or just like be passive and not stick up for you.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Right.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
So that might be your experience. And then twenty years later,
this little girl is, you know, trying to skate the
quarter pip and you're like, oh my god, I'm sorry,
am I in your way? And she's like yeah, and
I move out of the way, and I like look
over and I see her dad like you know, and
I'm like.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
You you'll look familiar.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
And then that just might be one of the guys
that was at the skate park you grew up at.
So that was a funny experience. I went over inside,
went up to him and everything. It's all good.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
But it's just like funny that like.
Speaker 4 (40:01):
I'm like, oh yeah, like I'm glad, like my shitty
experience at the skate park that like you somewhat contributed
to now twenty years later translates to your daughter having
a great experience.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
In skating and you're welcome, well done.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
Funny full circle moment there. I've been having a lot
of full circle moments, to be honest. Hashtag girl dad. Uh,
what are some of the other full circle moments? This
is good, let's talk about them. I walked into WT
like my last week of working at Skate like a Girl,
and I again saw face. I'm not great with like
facial recognition. I like saw this person, was like, how
do I know you? And then she's like Christen, it's
(40:36):
Ashley And I was like and I was like, oh
my god.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
The other girl skater.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
Back in the day, like before I joined Skate Like
a Girl, there was like one other girl skater that
lived on the other side of Seattle. It flashed back
to when we first started doing like girls skate sessions
at that part before it was ats, when it was
called innerspace, and there was like three of us and
at was where we were or it was in her
(41:02):
space at the time, but that's where we met for
the first time.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
We went and skated.
Speaker 4 (41:04):
We like met each other, we like found each other
on my space and then we like coordinated to go there.
And it was just a trip because she brought her kid, Cosmo,
to come and skate, and they're out there ripping and
like Ashley's skating again and she got her life together.
She's sober now, she's killing it. But yeah, it was
just such a trip and we were just kind of
like looking at each other and she's like, oh my god,
(41:25):
like look what you made like look and I was
like no, no, no, Like this is a collective effort for sure,
but like yeah, like I was the one that was
crazy enough to be like no, guys, I'm serious, Like listen,
like you're me out. In twenty years, there'll be you know,
a lot of people that want to come to this
space and we'll actually take it over twice a week.
There'll be like thirty people in here, and there's kids,
(41:46):
and it's a multi generational and there's like queer people,
a trance people like you gotta believe me, you know.
So it was just like funny we were wrapping out, like, dude,
remember when we were literally the only two girls skating
here with like a sea of men, and then now
we're at skate like a Girl WT.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
Night and we've taken it over. So that was another
crazy full circle moment.
Speaker 5 (42:02):
The canon QAnon, the conspiracy theory that you had growing
up that one day would be like this.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
Honestly, I've said this to you a lot too.
Speaker 5 (42:10):
I would have never guessed that this is the world
that we live in now, like the world that you created. Honestly,
it was collective like you are absolutely a visionary in
seeing what could happen too, and every collective does need
a visionary. And when I say you, you were the
one that was crazy enough to say yes, absolutely. In
(42:30):
twenty years, it's going to be like this and we're
going to do this and I'm going to devote my
life to it, and I'm going to get everybody on
board with it and pull the community together over a
universal goal.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
So thank you. Thanks for doing that.
Speaker 4 (42:40):
Thanks for being a part of it. Couldn't do it
without all my loyal followers.
Speaker 3 (42:46):
What's your hat on right now?
Speaker 2 (42:50):
Which you want to tell some of your loyal followers,
what to do and where to be for Wheels of
Fortune thirteen.
Speaker 4 (42:57):
Wales of Fortune is May fifteenth through seventeenth and Yeattle, Washington.
Friday Night is gonna kick it off with an educational
day with our friends from Tuty Friday, Cava from Bronxkill
Skate and Natalie Porter from Women's Skate History. They're gonna
be doing kind of like an educational day called extra
Credit on Friday at a local community space, ver Projects.
(43:20):
And then Friday night we're gonna turn it up to eleven.
We got a skate park being built in an old
grocery store building called Quality Flea Center. It's like covered
in graffiti. It's literally a Tony Hawk's pro skater like
video game level. It's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
We got Lemon Boy playing, we got DJ Tubsy, DJ Code,
Abbey Food Drinks.
Speaker 4 (43:40):
It's gonna be a big shabang may or may not
be a Barbiejeep to do tricks over.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (43:49):
So that's Friday night, and then Saturday is witch Hunt
meeting up at Sea Skate lots of which Hunt challenges
this just in Uh, there will be knobs, oh you
made them if you find one of these bad boys
or you find the most you will get a prize.
Speaker 3 (44:07):
We also have secret tapes, so you can find one
of these, you're in luck. But yeah, it's literally like
Easter Egg Hunt this year. No more challenge like totals
of points.
Speaker 4 (44:24):
You know, we're switching it up this year, so you're
gonna collect items and then we're gonna do like some
superlative awards for like best edit, best skater, like stuff
like that. And then yeah, Saturday night we meet back
up at thirty fifth North Skate Shop and instead of
going to the courts, we shut down the street. Finally
just got the permit yesterday. Shout out Sema for her
tenacity with Seattle Department of Transportation. Yeah, we're shutting down
(44:50):
the street and we got some obstacles in the street.
We'll do tricks for cash, and then we'll cap off
that night watching which Hunt clips, getting out awards, LW.
Williams their part dropping, as well as some other footy
from Tacki Joy Factory, nikesb Double Down.
Speaker 3 (45:09):
Yeah, so that's gonna be a hoot and a half.
Speaker 4 (45:12):
And then Sunday's the contest at All Together Skate Park,
So yeah, bring your competitive energy after all that community building.
I want you to bring your freaking game face on
Sunday for this very inclusive jam cell format contest led
by Alex. There'll be a vendor village, okay, so if
you're not into the competition, you can, you know, buy
(45:34):
some trinkets in the parking lot.
Speaker 3 (45:36):
So yeah, that's what's going on.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
That's the waff overview.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
I recommend it if you really feel like this could
be a way to see the skateboarding you want to
be a part of. It's the place to be. So
if you can make it happen, it's coming up. It's
always amazing and also took a year break, so it's
going to be bigger, better than two years ago.
Speaker 1 (45:56):
So yeah, get there. We'll be there. We'd love to
see you real talk.
Speaker 2 (46:00):
But Kristen, honestly such a visionary, an icon, a gift
to skateboarding.
Speaker 1 (46:07):
I love this new chapter for you.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
I feel like you have many more and they're going
to be always given for the community and for the people.
Truly rare when you meet someone that's like, I'm just
going to give myself to others and that's.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
Going to be my riches in this life.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
So it's just cool to watch you become the person
that you continue to become, and I feel like I've
learned so much from you. I don't want this to
be a big thank you letter to Kristin Eveline, but
like for those that have experienced, all that you've done
is just like it deserves the credit because so many
hours that you lost sleeping didn't get that credit.
Speaker 1 (46:41):
So here we are giving it back to you.
Speaker 2 (46:43):
This wouldn't be a good luck show if I didn't
ask you what you need some luck with right now?
Speaker 1 (46:47):
Kristen, do you need any luck going into this next week?
Speaker 3 (46:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (46:50):
A low stress wheels of fortune would be awesome.
Speaker 3 (46:56):
What tons of fun?
Speaker 4 (46:58):
And also I need like part time job that's consistent,
maybe some more private lessons? Well, will's a fortune has
low stress.
Speaker 1 (47:07):
And no injuries?
Speaker 4 (47:08):
Let's say that no injuries, no drama. Drama free walls
is number one?
Speaker 1 (47:11):
Okay? And if people wanted to hit you up for
lessons like how do we find you? What do we do?
Speaker 3 (47:17):
I'm like, do I just give you my number? That
sounds like a bad idea.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
It's a bad idea. But do you have an email?
Speaker 3 (47:23):
Yes? I have an email, but I don't really makes
you have an email.
Speaker 4 (47:28):
Okay, I guess we're not going to pull your hair
on this not you know, I just should have set
up like an email like learn to skate with Kristin
at gmail dot com, which it doesn't exist.
Speaker 3 (47:38):
I guess yeah, because.
Speaker 4 (47:39):
Email Kristin my name k r I S t I
N at skate leger girl dot com works great.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
Is there like a fantasy part time job you want?
Speaker 4 (47:48):
Honestly, if I could teach more private lessons to be awesome,
I've been getting so much out of it because I
feel like the young people that I'm working with, they're
really good and they have such good building blocks. They
just need like a guide to the next thing, and
they just need like little things like oh, when we're
five ohing, like really use our heel, don't put weight
on your front foot, just really lock in that hill
like and they're just like boom, excelling and it feels
(48:10):
really cool. So I've been mostly working with kids right now.
I got three private lesson clients right now, but I'm
working on doing some adult stuff guys summer.
Speaker 1 (48:21):
Yeah, yeah, me too, Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (48:24):
I ideally more of that and then honestly, anything like
writing or skate related would be cool too, creative direction.
If you need me to paint a Barbie jeep restore
rent barbiejeep restoration, I am here for that.
Speaker 2 (48:39):
I was expecting you to be like I want in on,
like the hockey team, though, like the professional women's hockey
team with Seattle like get me.
Speaker 1 (48:46):
I figured you'd be like part time sometime job over there.
But I'm hearing no.
Speaker 4 (48:49):
I made a bold choice, guys that when I started hockey,
I was not going to take take a leadership role.
And it has taken simply every ounce of my core
being to not like sign up to be the captain
when like everyone in the group Chet's like, so who
wants to be captain? For me to not respond, guys,
is like really huge. But I told myself hockey is
(49:10):
going to be my thing that I get to show
up and just play, and that is what it is
because I think I don't regret it. But in skating
it is hard. Like if I go skating and all
WT participants there trying to roll off the curb, I'm like,
what am I gonna do, like work on my trick
or go help them? Of course I'm gonna go help them,
like I've very much given my life to being that person.
(49:30):
And so for hockey, I'm like, I just want to participate.
So no, I don't want to be the social media
manager for the Seattle Torrent. No, but okay, yeah, if
I could just hang out with Hillary Night once, that'd
be cool.
Speaker 2 (49:45):
Never say never. Yeah, I love this new hockey you
I see it. I can't wait to come to one
of your games. It's a fantasy of mine to go.
Like's so scrimmage hockey.
Speaker 1 (49:55):
I don't know is that what you call?
Speaker 3 (49:57):
Get you an?
Speaker 1 (49:58):
I'm pretty like, oh, I just know it's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (50:01):
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We are your hosts Ashey Rayfeld Nora bas Gonselos, Alex White,
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