Artist Profile: Emma Fitzgerald

The lovely Emma Fitzgerald is an old friend of mine from University, who I recently asked to create some bits for me for the NASS 2010 Girls Competition earlier this Summer.

She has mentioned the comp on her blog, along with a few photos of the work so make sure you check it out, take a look around the rest of her website too, it’s rad!!

Below is a photo of Brazilian born, pro skateboarder Leticia Bufoni with her bag by Fitz, she won too many prizes to carry!

If you fancy one of these bags, or the cards on her site, get in touch with Emma direct at:
emma_j_fitzgerald@hotmail.com

British Invasion with Charlotte Thatcher

Check out the first of many videos featuring Charlotte Thatcher, who is on the Criminal Skateboards ‘Global Squad’ as the face of the new British Invasion edits.

‘Av a looksie!

Alexis Sablone

Alexis Sablone wins 4th Annual Supergirl skateboarding competition in Venice Beach, California 2010.
The event featured some of the world’s top female skateboarders.

Check it out!

Ladies Gone Wild

2010 SUPERGIRL contest in Simi valley.

Charlotte Thatcher

Here is another little edit i put together of my little grasshopper, Charlotte Thatcher..
Slowly teaching her everything I know!

Haha, Enjoy!

Lovenskate Tour

Catch up with Lucy Adams on the Lovenskate summer tour between the 23rd – 29th of August at the locations listed on the poster above!

Props to Lucy for placing 9th in the recent Basel competition!! Well done!

FlipA Skateboarding movie from BCN

It’s here!! The all girl skateboarding film from sunny Barcelona!

Having premiered sometime last year, Gabriella Figueroa, the chica guapa who filmed, directed & produced the movie, has just uploaded her video to the internet for us all to enjoy. Rad!

Names you should recognize from our European friends consist of sisters, Andrea & Julia Wilshusen, Paula Costales, Sarah Meurle, Nicoleta Neagu &Merce Bosche,

Alongside a few lesser known girlies such as Ruth Sierratta, Raguel, Horaima Martinez, Fernanda Oliveira, Lisa Kindberg, Meku, Vanesa Toledano and Laura Leveres.
Maria Falbo and I make short & sweet appearances too!

This movie, featured below in 2 parts, is a short but rad video that makes you want to go out and skate, eat tapas and drink sangria. Watch it now!

” FlipA Skateboarding Girls Barcelona movie part 1″

” FlipA Skateboarding Girls Barcelona movie part 2″

P.S: Massive props to Gaby for all of her hard work and effort that went in to making this, trying to drag all of the girls off the beach to go skate in 35degree heat is no easy feat!

A few words from Gaby Gabster herself…

The first skateboarding girls movie filmed in Barcelona, showing females from diferent countrys all with the same dream “go skateboarding everyday.
This is 30 minutes of many girls all with diferent levels and styles. Its great to see how many girls get into skating, there’s more and more, its not about being pro, anyone can try to skate and enjoy it the same way, so keep it up girls in the world !!!!!

For more info contact Gaby: gabriella_figueroa@hotmail.com

Maloof Money Cup 2010

1st place- Leticia Bufoni
2nd place- Alexis Sablone
3rd- Marisa Dal Santo

Featuring Alexis Sablone, Leticia Bufoni, Marisa Dal Santo, Vanessa Torres, Elissa Steamer, Lorena Lima and more.

Brazil’s Bufoni wins girls’ competition!

Leticia Bufoni’s long trip from Sao Paulo, Brazil, to Costa Mesa proved to be worth it.

The 17-year-old won $25,000 in the Cup girls’ skateboard street contest. She slid the back of her skateboard down a rail to finish first and take a two-point edge on second-place finisher Alexis Sablone. Marisa Del Santo took third.

Through a translator, she said her ability to compete well in all three sections of the street course led to the Cup championship.

Full Results featured below:

1. Leticia Bufoni 276.33
2. Alexis Sablone 274.33
3. Marisa Dal Santo 269.33
4. Evelien Bouilliart 251
5. Amy Caron 232.67
6. Vanessa Torres 219.67
7. Lacey Baker 212
8. Elissa Steamer 203
9. Katherine Williams 188.67
10. Abisha Alshebaiki 172
11. Lorena Lima 170.67
12. Kristin Ebling 160.67
13. Lauren Perkins 150.67
14. Eliana Sosco 134.67
15. Rhianna Arnold 108.67

Lucy in Basel

Just received an e-mail from the legend that is Lovenskate Stu, informing me that Lucy Adams (who has been smashing it of late, winning the Annual Girls Jam at Pioneer, and placing 3rd at Nass) shall be attending the Basel comp in Switzerland THIS WEEKEND for the European Skateboard Championships and its 10 year Anniversary Celebrations.

Here are a few words from the man himself…

Thanks to big Lars at Carhartt , Lovenskate has a stall there again. We have been working really hard to make some Basel product and this morning we finished it all, including 20 boards, 2000 stickers, a table cloth for the stall, and 60 limited edition Lovenskate /Carhartt collaboration T’s celebrating 10 years of the ESC.

Hopefully we can sell it all, and make enough money to feed Lucy and Ewen who’ll be out there shredding.

If you’re coming to Basel, see you in the Black Cross Bowl!!!

If you haven’t skated a lovenskate yet, get to the online shop and order yourself one of these rad boards, all handprinted in his London studio. The deck featured below is my favourite, “There is seriously too much RADNESS!” Limited edition, only 20 of these were made.

I want one!

GET SET GO!

Get Set Go is an international street contest held in Sweden, with some of the best female skateboarders in the world, with a massive 10,000 SEK (€1000) prize money giveout!

It will take place during the weekend of the 21st-22nd August 2010 at Stapplebaddsparken in Malmo. For those of you that have not seen the park first hand, this little clip should whet your appetite!
NOTE: This video was made before the parks completion, so there are a few minor changes but nothing much that affects where the street comp will take place… (i.e: no trees were ever planted!!)

Here are a few words from Andrea about her event:

It’s free to enter the contest. All you have to do to sign up is to send an e-mail to andrea@bryggeriet.org

Don’t miss the chance to skate with the girls who will be traveling from all over the world for this competition; No Limit (Sweden), Skirtboarders (Canada) and Skate Like A Girl (US) will all be there!
-  Andrea Andersson Antunes

Riders such as Helena Long, Lucy Adams, Lois Pendlebury & Danielle Mellor will be representing for all us UK heads that can’t make it.

Swedens’ own Emma Lindgren who recently took 5th place at the UK’s NASS comp last month will be there shredding to the best of her advantage, having skated the park a million times before.

Not forgetting Nicoline Egeberg from Denmark and Anne – Sophie Julien from Canada.. plus plenty of more fellow female rippers, this competition is NOT one to be missed!!

EXTRAS:
- Two exhibits showing Womens skateboarding
- Ultra Bowl, huge skateboard contest, which is also the final for the Swedish concrete cup
- Café, bar and parties
- Final for Crossing Boarders tour

Sign up by emailing the lovely Andrea herself at: andrea@bryggeriet.org
For more info, check out these sites..

WWW.BETONCUPSEN.SE
WWW.BRYGGERIET.ORG

Also, Andreas own blog, Tosabidarna is totally worth a look!

Ladies Monthly 6.0 – Southern Shred!

Here’s the plan for the mission, it’s pretty loose and dependent on the weather etc. . .but the idea is as follows!

Thursday 22nd: From Brighton to Uckfield to Crawley and then to Maidstone or Rochester – hostel/hotel to arrange

Friday 23rd: Swalecliffe and Broadstairs (Revolution Skatepark)

Saturday 24th: Maybe stick around for the contest at Unit 1 Skatepark

Get in touch with Lois or Dani by sending them a msg through their facebook accounts. See you guys there!

More NASS Footage!

As you all know, the girls skate comp at NASS (hosted by Rubicon) this year went down a storm!
Skatergirl has its own footage of the event which you can see below, thanks to a Mr Mike McInally, along with a few words from Rogues very own, Jenna Selby..

Watch out for a few more photos & words from the NASS event…

In all 15 riders entered, fresh from her appearance at the Girl Skate Jam 2 weeks again Evelien Bouilliart made the trip over to the west of England.
The continental representative was Emma Lingden from Sweden. Furthest traveled were Kara Gaetz-Bruce (Canada) and champion supreme Letícia Bufoni (Brazil), hot off her 2nd place at Mystic Cup last week.

This year organisers had manged to arrange the comp for the earlier time of 8pm, although the BMXing qualifiers over ran so it was closer to 9pm before things kicked off.
The girls competed in in a jam format – split into 4 groups – with the top rider from each qualifying for the final.

Group A – Charlotte Thatcher, Fran Stroud, Georgina Matthews and Helena Long.
Group B – Danni Gallacher, Charlotte Brennon, Lucy Adams and Kara Gaetz-Bruce.
Group C – Sophie Allen, Evelien Boulliart, Ellie Ford and Emma Lindgren
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Group D – Letícia Bufoni, Emma Richardson and Claire Jones.

It was a no holds barred contest, Letícia and Evelien dominated the rail down the stairs with back smiths, lipslides and feebles been thrown down amongst other tricks.
Ellie Ford landed a good frontside heel on the bank, Emma Lindgren a frontside air out of the quatre, Helena an inward heel over the hip, Fran a double flip on the driveway and Emma a switch frontside 180 over the hip.

Lucy started off fairly shakey and it looked doubtful whether she would reach the final or not. 
There had been one or two issues with the music which was sorted out halfway through her run. Obviously a few beats kicking in did the job for her and she a feeble on the flat rail and a fakie flip on the steep bank to see her going through to the final.

The others who qualified were Letícia Bufoni, Evelien Bouilliart, Helena Long. A fifth was awarded to Emma for her performance in her run.
There then followed some confusion, the organisers of the event decided that everything was over and everyone had to leave the arena.
After 15minutes of no one really knowing what was happening it was decided that the final could take place. So the 5 girls took to the floor once more for another 5 minutes.  What a final.

Everyone pushed themselves but it was clear from the start that it was going to be dominated by Evelien and Leticia. Both were using different parts of the park, but the comp ended up on the rail down the stairs. By this point MC Ben Powell announced that the final would actually not be finishing and the girls had all the time they wanted to do as many tricks down the rail as they could.

Leticia was ridiculous – front feeble followed by a back smith. Crowd were actually going wild! She then nollied, switch ollied and kick flipped the stairs, just because…she can! Evelien had also had a good run and was trying her hardest to blunt down the rail, on the majority of the tries she got to the bottom only to hit the floor at an awkward angle and fall off.
She had tweaked her ankle in the qualifiers, that coupled with a very drunk night before meant that she was just too tired in the end.

All in all a great comp…next stop UKSA! “

Words by Jenna Selby.

Get Hyped!

With NASS less than a fortnight to go, we thought we’d get you hyped with a few words from a very excited photographer, Ana Paula Neagro!

Ana will be joining us alongside Leticia Bufoni for the 2010 Girls NASS Competition which will be held over the weekend of July 9th at Bath West & Showground, Somerset UK.

“So the day is getting closer and we’re getting really excited to travel to Europe right after the Boston Dew Tour. We’ll be flying into Prague, Bristol and Rome.

We’re looking forward to the NASS event, and excited about coming to England to skate with the UK girls and I’ve always wanted to come because most of the bands I love are from the UK.
Plus I have some British friends and I just adore their sense of humor!

I’ve been always wondering if I ever been to London I would fall in love with the city?
Maybe… I can’t wait to find out.”

Ana

Check out Leticia killing it in her section of ‘Children Of The Revolution.”

Leticia Bufoni – Rockin’ Front Board

You can also check out Ana’s personal website here!

The UK Girl Skate Jam…

…Will take place TODAY, Saturday 19th June at Pioneer Skatepark in St Albans.
Girls have traveled from Poland, Czech and Scotland to compete, its set to be a good one!

See you there!!

Mecu & Paulita do Europe