Category: Profile
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Brenda Devine
Brenda Devine started out competing as an amateur in the spring of 1978, but soon became selected for the very first Powell skateboard team, as their first sponsored female rider. She rode for Powell for a year-and-a-half, just in time for her first pro event. Brenda came third in Women’s Pipe behind Terry Lawrence and…
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Robin Logan
Robin Logan was raised in Hermosa Beach, California by her mom Barbara along with three older brothers. She watched Brian, Bruce and Brad surf and skate everyday, and at four-years old Bruce set her up on a skateboard. Robin shared in Skateboarder that, “When I was seven, we would do demos in department stores… Bruce…
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Celebrity Skaters
There’s no doubt that skateboarding is cool, so it’s inevitable that celebrities are going to want to give it a go. Over the years, we’ve seen an interesting mix of actresses take part and I have to ask, who “wore it better?” The most surprising actress has to be the elegant Katharine Hepburn, and it’s…
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Edie Robertson
Edie Robertson from Santa Barbara was inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame in 2019 for her diverse skills across all skateboarding disciplines and competitive results in the 1970s. Born in 1962, she was just a toddler when skateboarding first appeared, but she was ready to roll into the second wave, trying out her friend’s…
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Wendy Bearer Bull
As the only female member of the Makaha Skateboard Club, launched in 1963 by Larry Stevenson in West Los Angeles, Wendy Bearer Bull represented and became an early skateboarding role model. Note: The handstand photo is from the Los Angeles Herald, August 28, 1965, and Wendy is age 13 She started skateboarding alongside her brother…
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Terry Lawrence
The legacy of pro skater Terry Lawrence (@silvereagletraders) and his skateboarding journey is awesome. In his own words, “My name’s Terry Lawrence. I’m 57 years-old, my pronouns are he/him/his and I’m transgender. I was a professional skater in the ‘70s and early part of the ‘80s, when I was skating, I was skating as a…
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Krishna Swenson
Krishna Swenson was a skateboarder who owned the WILD ramp at the Castillo Street House in Santa Barbara, and absolutely ripped! She appeared in the May 1990 issue of Thrasher in an article called “Keeping up with the Santa Barbarians” by John Dettman. The caption states, “Owner of the WILD ramp and dominant backyard skate…
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Robin Alaway-Lerum
Robin Alaway was a skateboarder in the mid-1970s who became sponsored by R.A.C.O., a Los Angeles skateboard company, providing demonstrations for them at hardware stores from Texas to New Mexico, before moving on to the Logan Earth Ski team, and launching a UK brand called “Skuda.” While her style channeled her background as a dancer,…
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Calhoun Sisters
Robin and Candy Calhoun were the daughters of surf, swim, and dive legend Marge Calhoun, who was the first female world champion surfer when she won the Makaha International competition on the Hawaiian island of Oahu in 1958. Marge began surfing after having her daughters and was not your typical 1950s housewife. Photo: Sisters Robin and…
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Marie-France Gravel
Marie-France was an Indigenous skateboarder who took up skateboarding in her early thirties as a single mom in Montréal and was part of the original Skirtboarders crew. She had begun skateboarding in 1994 but had to put her life on hold to care for her daughter Arielle, who was born paralyzed and wheelchair-bound with cerebral…
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