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Video: X Games Women’s Skateboard Comp
by Pretty Tough
posted August 3, 2009 at 7:40pm

2007 X Games winner Marisa Dal Santo reclaimed gold in this year’s dramatic street competition. Check out this video for highlights of the event. Final Results from the Skateboard Women’s Street Final competition held at The Home Depot Center in ...more

Are women making any of the X Games prime tme?
by Women's Sports Blog
posted August 1, 2009 at 3:35pm

This is an honest question. I haven't seen any women's events, but I haven't watched that much coverage, either. It seems that more and more, the women are relegated to occasional highlights and some print coverage. They already compete in fewer eve...more

X Games Street: Marisa Dal Santo reclaims gold
by Pretty Tough
posted August 1, 2009 at 12:51pm

X Games gold medalist Marisa Dal Santo There were two women’s X finals today. But unless you were there in person, you’d probably have trouble finding any footage of it. Fortunately, I was there (straight from an early morning flight from N...more

X Games On: Women’s Street Comp Photo Journal
by Pretty Tough
posted July 31, 2009 at 9:44pm

X Games 15 Women's Street Medalists: Marisa Dal Santo, Alexis Sablone, Elissa Steamer X Games Women’s Street Medalists X Games gold medalist Marisa Dal Santo X Games Bronze medalist Elissa Steamer (c) Pretty Tough 2009 X Games Street com...more

X Games: Skateboard Vert Women’s Final Results
by Pretty Tough
posted July 31, 2009 at 2:38am

Skateboard Vert Women’s Final Results Final standings from the Skateboard Vert Women’s competition held at the Home Depot Center in Los Angeles, Calif. on July 30, 2009. Name/Rank Hometown 1. Lynz Adams Hawkins Cardiff by the S...more

Maloof Money Cup winners
by Pretty Tough
posted July 14, 2009 at 1:14pm

Maloof Money Cup Ladies Event I was planning to head down to the OC Fairgrounds to catch the MMC Ladies Finals but to be honest, it was so hot yesterday that I opted for an air-conditioned photo exhibit followed by a lazy late afternoon poolside. The ...more

Maloof women’s street skaters announced
by Pretty Tough
posted June 28, 2009 at 8:13pm

The Maloof Money Cup, a three-day, five event competition and festival hailed as the world’s greatest skateboarding competition is back for a second year. The event, created by Joe Maloof, owner of the NBA’s Sacramento Kings and the Palms Hotel and C...more

Go Skateboarding Day in Kabul
by Pretty Tough
posted June 24, 2009 at 8:34pm

The Afghan capital of Kabul doesn’t seem like a center for action sports. Especially with the 20,000 troops Obama recently sent over to help curtail violence. But last Sunday, in celebration of Go Skateboarding Day, dozens of boys and girls took to ...more

Go Skateboarding Day
by Pretty Tough
posted June 21, 2009 at 2:53pm

Yeah – today is Father’s Day. But it’s also Go Skateboarding Day. Held on June 21 every year, GSD is the official holiday of skateboarding. The holiday began June 21, 2003 as an excuse for skateboarders to make skateboarding their top priority. ...more

California high schools embrace skateboarding as a competitive sport
by Pretty Tough
posted June 5, 2009 at 7:31pm

Skateboarding is as diverse a sport as the athletes it attracts. From doing tricks, riding in a skate-park, sliding, racing, or freestyle, there are lots of ways to ride and more and more girls are taking up the challenge. While most schools don’t al...more

Win a scholarship to Windells Action Sports Camp!
by Pretty Tough
posted June 5, 2009 at 11:47am

A lot of students are assigned a “personal essay” as the final English assignment of the year. For some kids, the paper morphs into the essay they submit as part of their college application. Others embark on a period of journaling as a road to pers...more

We GRO Skateboarding Tour: Girl riders hit the road
by Pretty Tough
posted April 15, 2009 at 6:06pm

Girls Riders Organization just announced the 4th annual GRO skateboarding tour, a nation-wide series of female-only action sports instructional programs and gatherings of female skaters committed to inspiring girls to participate in action sports and enco...more

Louis Vuitton Skateboards?
by Pretty Tough
posted January 8, 2009 at 8:28pm

Luxury brand Louis Vuitton is offering a limited edition Stephen Sprouse grafitti inspired skateboard....more

Skaters jump in as foreclosures drain the pool
by Pretty Tough
posted December 30, 2008 at 7:18pm

December 30, 2008 - To end the year on an up note, we thought we’d look at the positive side of the economic meltdown. Across the nation as home builders are going bust, skaters are finding a surplus of deserted pools in which to perfect their acrobatic...more

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