STRENGTH IN NUMB3R5
When Nina Moran first got hooked on skateboarding, around the age of 12, she didn’t have any friends to pair up with. Instead she’d watch boys in her middle school practising every afternoon, dying to join in. One day, holding her first real skateboard – a pink one her dad bought her – she finally approached them. The first thing they said was: “Yo, that skateboard sucks!
So Nina just started skating by herself, studying those guys from a distance: seeing where they put their feet on the board, copying them until she got the hang of it. They refused to pay her any attention… until she nailed her first kickflip. All of a sudden, they were only too happy to become friends. But as Nina got better than them, something changed. Their attitude towards her hardened. One day a boy told her, “There’s basically no point in girls skateboarding because a woman is never going to be as good as a man.”
That’s when Nina realised she needed better company. Searching for ‘girl skateboarders NYC’ on YouTube,
