SheShreds

This weekend was eventful after winning the DH Women's race, I walked away with an Original Aribter DK.

My Story:

I also walked away with a new sponsorship, SheShreds! I'm so stoked about being the newest ambassador for this amazing team of ladies! I share the vision they have about female athletes powering through their sports. My new teammates all have this love and passion for what they do. I can't wait to see what this coming up year will have in store for me. (: 

My whole life I grew up as a part of the guys and didn't have any girl friends. I hated anything and everything girly, including dresses and especially the color pink. I played every sport I could growing up, hockey, speed skating, baseball then softball, roller derby and now I have longboarding. 

While playing all these sports, I had to overcome being the only girl around in my group of friends. Yeah I got teased sometimes but I learned how to dish it right back and grew thick skin. They may have given me a hard time growing up but they are still very good friends of mine to this day and would do anything for me. This has made me who I am today, I am a confident person who takes risks and not afraid to stand up for what I believe in. I love to hang out with my friends and make new friends everywhere I go. 

The longboard community is the same way, full of guys and very little ladies. I love how we are a big family and take care of each other. When I meet ladies who skate, it becomes an instant friendship, which is rad.  I also love how the guys push my limits even when I'm unsure of my skills then, after I nail the run with them, we all get so hyped on it! The guys are pretty supportive in Texas. Being a female in the male dominant sport of longboarding can be difficult at times, but I don't view it as an obstacle. I view myself the same as them taking pack runs together. Being a female shouldn't hold me back one bit. I don't ever use the excuse of "I'm a girl" because I'd be playing into the stereotypical female can't do it idea and I don't like that at all. Here's to being a female and skating my heart out every time I step on my board. 

Rock Around the Rock-Dallas

This past weekend I took a trip to Dallas in the NoBull car with Greg, Will, Luis and Tony. Skate trips are always fun! We took part in the Rock Around the Rock held by Kasper, which had a LDP race and DH race. Lance Curry won the 10 mile LDP race in 36 min 42 sec! Ray Adams won the DH race despite hitting a cat in the semifinals. I won the DH Women's race after having two crashes in the open heats. Overall this trip was pretty rad and I got to hang out with all my DFW friends. (:

Skate everyday!

Machado 3

Ill start by saying this trip was the most amazing trip ever! I camped for the first time, skated out of state for the first time and hung out with all my homies for three days!

Bryanne, Jay and I packed up the car literally to the ceiling with camp and skate gear for this epic weekend! We didnt even make it out of Texas before we got pulled over, buttttt got a warning (: At the next gas stop we took, we found out that the back tire had a nail in it and was flat, bummer. We get it as fixed as we could then hit the road again to not only get pulled over again 5 miles down the road in Oklahoma. This time we got a ticket :( Finally after 10 hours of straight driving, we meet up with the San Antonio crew. Time to find a camp site.

This was my first time to camp and I don't do well with bugs, but the next morning waking up to fresh mountain air was so nice. We packed up and hit the road to Arkansas to skate Shepherds. I was trying not to look at the scenery when skating through the mountains. Shepherds first off was freaking amazing and that's why we skated it all day long! I almost didn't want to leave but we had to get to the camp site at Machado. Before we left, I took a close pack run with Bryanne, Cord and Matt. Cord caught it all on video plus Stephen, Hopper and Erik flying past us hitting 58mph on that run.




 That night at the Machado camp site we all hung out at the camp fire and made some memories. The next morning was race day! Bryanne was the only female who raced this year and had some really good runs. Crash corner stood by its name and had so many crazy insane crashes. Only one person had a bad bad bad crash, knocked himself out after hitting a hay bail and flying at least 100 feet. He ended up being okay after a hospital visit, no concussion and 20 something stitches to his inner lip. Glad he was okay.

After the race was over, we got to drive back 10 hours to Houston to wake up and go to school/work the next day. It was so worth it! I had a few accomplishments from that trip and I will come back next year to race! Thank you to everyone who gave feedback and encouragement throughout this trip, yall are amazing!

-sk8

Time to Play Catch Up

Long time since I wrote last... Lets see what happened between then and now. 

We had a kick ass ladies weekend in Austin, Texas with about 6 of us Houston ladies and a few that are already in Atx. We skated non stop for 3 days straight, we hit new hills and fed off each others vibes!  I learned how to do some new freeriding thanks to Hannah and Bryanne and I skated Lost Creek for the first time. It was an amazing weekend but as always, it was too short. I ended up finishing up that weekend with one less sponsor. I withdrew from Crossroads and wish everyone the best!

I went home to Denton for a week but skated with some homies up there. Skated some downtown Fort Worth Garages with Tanner, John W, Erick, Kelly, Ryan Richbourg, Dustin and a few other ppl. We had extreme butt board races, one run I almost took out Erick... Whoopsies! It was a really fun night for sure.

Two days later, Greenbaker and John W took me to skate my favorite dh run in FtW and more downtown Ft Worth garages. They were so much fun and one was super fast! I didnt want to leave and just wanted to skate all night. (: Even the view from the very tippy top of a garage during a lightening storm was amazing!

Not much as happened since I got back from DFW, because school started... Booo! Im slaving my days away on a clinical rotation. Pediatric clinic is where Im at right now.

The Patriot Race. Epic is all that is needed to describe the whole weekend! STEP 1- 22 ppl got stuck in an elevator at the garage race, and took 45 minutes to get them out. The race got cancelled, but a group of us found somewhere else to skate. STEP 2- Buttboard Race in ATX at an abandoned water slide. It was crazy and tight banked turns. It was so much fun! STEP 3- Patriot Race Day.   Bryanne, myself, Rachel, Kristin, Taylor, Freda, plus two other new ladies were racing. It was amazing to see so many ladies racing now! The finals was Rachel, Taylor, Bryanne and myself. STEP 4- Skate sesh before we left Atx and kissed a lot of concrete at Lost Creek Main. My fastest crash and it was scary... Healing up to skate again.

2nd place, 1st place, 3rd place

The Podium was 1st: Bryanne, 2nd: Myself, 3rd: Taylor, 4th: Rachel. This was my first time to podium at a race and was super excited the entire weekend. I was really excited that Bryanne was in the podium too because she my best friend.

What a freaking awesome skate trip it turned out to be! I got to see all my friends from all over Texas and skate with them! Heres to the next time.

-Sk8

Short Trip

The trip to ATX was a freaking blast! We started it off by rescuing a dog running across the streets bc of the fireworks. He was super scared! We found the owners after a few hours. To kill the time, we decided to throw a party and play skateboard pong. A way to shake things up a bit.

Skating was all day saturday and sunday, with a huge group of people. After skating in the Texas heat, we took a drip in the chilly greenbelt. It felt so damn good. I somehow got talked into swinging from a rope that was 10 feet in the air. Lets just say, next time Ill be doing a lot of push ups beforehand. #shallowrocks



Of course with every skate trip, it ends too short. I always have so much fun on skate trips, its so hard to go back. Its alright, because next weekend is our huge ladies trip from Houston to ATX. Theres about 6 of us going, so stay tuned to find out what adventures or trouble we got into .

Sk8 for fun, sk8 for you

Been MIA

Hey everyone, been MIA lately with school and everything. Havent been doing much skating lately due to school and being out in the clinic. Its alright because to celebrate the Fourth Of July, Hannah and I are driving to ATX for the weekend!  Mini ladies skate weekend in ATX and shredding some hills with some rad ppl while there.

COUNT DOWN TO ATX: a few hours.

Let the shredding begin!!!

-Sk8

GO SKATE DAY

Started Go Skate Day so freaking early, 4am! Got ready and headed over to Greg Noble's place so we can head to San Antonio. The ride down to SA was rad with Greg and Kameron, shenanigans doesnt describe what went down on this trip.

First stop was Insanity Boardshop to register for the race that morning. The race was held by Ehren Mohammadi, and went down with a few glitches. The race route was pretty rad neighborhood run, and quite fun!  Grabbed some grub afterwards before the slide jam started.

Slide jam was rad and hot as balls! So many ppl were trying to hit the Bombsquad ramp, Jargh and Dave were killin it!

At the end of the day we had to come back to Houston, which was lame. We were so exhausted after all that skating. A rad trip for sure.

GO SKATE DAY!

Presents :]

The time has come when I got some goodies from Crossroads! Scott has been hard at work and has made an amazing board called the Totem. This board feels incredible as soon as I stood on it. I had to set it up as soon as I could. She is a beauty. I'm really excited to take it down some real hills, which only means skate trip!

I'm Healed!

Its halfway official that my stupid finger is just about healed. I have a doctor appointment next week to see if I get clearance to get back to shredding on skateboards. I'm excited to get back to the grind and skating with my friends again. :) I missed going fast and taking pack runs.

Another Atx trip is in the works, as well as more trips with the Crossroads Crew! School is coming to a close this semester, which = more skating.

Race season is beginning, with this month packed with races every weekend! Great times and memories are to come.

Oh and the shenanigans continue at Carve Skate Shop! Leave it to Eddie and Clayton for entertainment!

-Sk8 for you!

ATX Day Trip

Visited Austin for two quick days with my friend Charles, and it turned out to be a really fun time. Started off with a few runs down one of my favorite runs called Dogs. Got some exercises, because we didn't have a tow the first day. Afterwards we met up with some friends and kicked it the rest of the night.

Dogs

The next morning, bright and freaking early, we got up to start skating. Such nice beautiful weather the entire day so where we all (Charles, Don and I) got some sunburn... well mostly me. :/  The runs today felt so amazing, smoother than butter, tailwinds, and sunshine! Hanging out with good friends, changing setups, talking and having a good time. Today reminded me of why I skate, because it's fun and enjoy my friend's company. I loved everything about today!

Rayne, Bombsquad and Crossroads

Relaxing After A Run

I took up the art of photography this weekend, since my finger has pins in it plus I promised my surgeon and my mom that I wouldn't skate until it is healed. It sucks, but have to play by the rules this time. I was the tow and photog person today. I actually like taking pictures with fancy cameras! and I've convinced myself I don't need to take up another hobby.

Playing Photographer. Caught Don doing this sick slide!

After skating called for a refreshing dip in the cold green belt of Austin. Hiking through the woods and over creeks was adventurous. Finally got to the secret spot and started skipping rocks like 12 year olds. Who can skip one the most? Lost track of time and 2.5 hours went by. I could of stayed there all day long! I found a little froggie friend in the rock next to me. He was so cute!

Mr. Froggie

Went home to relax after such an eventful day! I'm exhausted, sunburned and stoked about the skating that took place over the last two days! It's always a good time when visiting ATX. :) Until next time...


-Skate for you

Finger Problems

My lame excuse for a pinky was fixed by having two pins put into the piece of bone I broke off. I was awake during the surgery, which was SUPER FREAKING COOL by the way! Lucky for me, I walked away with just a splint on my finger, no casts! YAY! Heres some pictures to go along with everything. Enjoy :)

 -Skate for you

Broken

All Fixed

Fat Finger With 2 Pins

Just When I Was Getting Started...

I guess this was bound to happen sooner or later from being so active in multiple sports. I was playing softball with my school's coed team, and dove into second base trying to beat out the tag. Well next thing I know my hand is numb and feels hot. Thinking to myself that's not right and walk about to my dugout. I get my batting glove off my hand and sure enough my pinky is sideways.

Yep it was dislocated, but lucky for me that my entire team is made up of PT classmates. It was put back into alignment as best as possible and the icing began. Two days later, my finger is super swollen, bruised, painful and cant move my finger at all. Time to go see a doctor for xrays. It revealed a displaced oblique fracture to the head of the proximal phalanx. Now dont say that you have no idea what that is, its called power of google people. To end this sad story, I'm meeting with a surgeon in two days to find out what they can do with my pathetic pinky finger. Hopefully its a fast recovery time frame.

-SK8 for you!

Miss Mary !!!

Hey everyone,

My journey this year has consisted of judging a few slide jams, garage races, trips to Austin and now going to Maryhill! I have signed up for the G-Ride in June and excited to go! It will be my first skate trip outside of Texas. Finding a flight to get out there is my next obstacle to over come. I'll get to skate and meet a bunch of amazing lady skaters and man skaters too. I have my Biggie Hawgs I got from Katie Neilson about a month ago from an online contest, that I can't wait to skate.

Still trying to find a balance between school work and skating with HGR. My tests are over with now so it's time to skate and eat breakfast foods at 3am post sesh. :)

A few trips to Austin and DFW area are in the works within the next few months. Skate skate skate!

-Skate for you and no one else!