The Playground Jam -Girls Slopestyle Comp – NEXT WEEK!!

Calling all girls that snowboard or ski! come to the Chapelle Park in Avoriaz France for a brilliant day riding with other shredders around a super fun park!

The Playground is now in it’s 5th year running and we are still dedicated to making sure everyone that comes goes home with a bag of swag and a massive smile on their face.

Registration online is 15€ – HERE

on the day it’s 20€ at the bottom of the park

GOODIE BAGS GO TO EVERYONE THAT ENTERS.

Swiss Girls Slopestyle Competition -Ladies First Challenge

The lovely Maude from ‘Ladies First’ wrote to tell us about the 2 stops on the slopestyle tour this winter. If you’re around these resorts you NEED to go, they’re great fun and you meet a bunch of rad girls to ride with.

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The first event of the LADIES FIRST CHALLENGE will take place on February 16th in Wildhaus (SG)!

You’ll find in attach of this e-mail some informations and the program of the event!

NEW THIS YEAR:

- A “Kids” Category for young girls (-16 years old)

- “Freestyle coaching” for beginners

PRIZE MONEY:

- SKI WOMEN Category: CHF 1’000.-

- SNOWBOARD WOMEN Category: CHF 1’000.-

- KIDS Category: Price in stuff

REGISTRATION: http://www.ladiesfirstchallenge.ch/sign_up.php

You can sleep in Wildhaus (SG) for only CHF 100.-/room in a hotel. Let us know quickly if you are interested!

We hope you’ll come on February 16th!

The LFC Team

2 Weeks Of Camp Planned For March

So, with the cancelled US trip (simply not enough interest to book things this year, it felt like too much of a gamble, sorry, we’ve decided to run 2 weeks of camp back to back from the 30th March in the usual place Morzine in France.

We’ll get the details to returning comrades in a mailout asap, then release info online for new campers, watch this space!

VOTE FOR US! -girls skate crew up for an award, voting ends Friday.

Please vote for the Girls Skate Crew I’m part of to win an award we’ve been nominated for in Copenhagen. All you need to do is click on the pic above or follow this link and click ‘like’ on the pic to place your all important vote, simple!…then re-post it on your facebook/twitter/whatever page to get us more votes if you are a lovely kind person : )

VOTE FOR US BY CLICKING ‘LIKE’ ON THE AWARDS PAGE PIC.

Brilliant Article from Huck Magazine

Women In Skateboarding

Something I am asked about a lot is what it’s like to be a girl that snowboards or skates and why more girls don’t do it… it’s something I’ve written about in the past and something I think about a lot, this article in Huck highlights the major point about female stereotypes encouraged in the past. I really think the ¨internalisation by both sexes¨ of the stereotypes of how a woman should look and behave is a major part of why people don’t like to see/feel they should do a sport, the negative effects of appearing ‘unladylike’ are deeply engrained into society so far that we don’t even realise that we are acting according to what society expects from us.
This article is a ‘thinker’ that’s for sure, I’d welcome comments on what your thoughts are….

Playground Jam 2012

What to expect from an OUR CAMP

Our Camp Interviews

-a little edit I made of Jenny Jones interviewing a few campers along with Head Coach Ben Kinnear. It’s for anyone wondering what a week on camp is like, what type of person comes on camp and what kind of coaching we do.