Good Luck With That: A Podcast About Skateboarding

What makes someone valuable in skateboarding? Who gets to make that call? And what happens when the future of skateboarding looks nothing like its past?

This week, we're looking for answers in an unlikely place: professional basketball.

Skaters, stay with me here.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Maddy Brown, better known as WNBA Data, joins us to talk WNBA playoffs, making statistics interesting, what the numbers can (and can’t) tell us about sports, and the growing role of data in women’s sports.

Then we bring it back to skateboarding: an industry that has historically relied less on data and more on “seems right,” and look at the value women and gender-expansive skaters may be creating that the industry isn’t measuring. What data are we missing, what questions should we be asking, and what could the numbers tell us about the bigger story of skateboarding?

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rosie Archie joins us to talk about growing up in Canim Lake First Nation, finding skateboarding, building community and starting Nation Skate Youth. Plus, the 11th annual Stop, Drop & Roll goes down in Vancouver this weekend. Thank you Rosie!

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From learning how to kickflip the second time she ever skated in flip-flops, as one does — to representing the Philippines at the Olympics, Margielyn Didal has had an incredibly impressive skateboarding career.

Margie joins us to talk about growing up in Cebu, competing before she owned a skateboard, SLS, X Games, winning the Asian Games, making the Tokyo Olympic final, breaking her ankle, getting engaged, filming a new video part and what’s next. Spoiler: a lot.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

• Red Bull Bowl Rippers Marseille 
• Rockstar Energy Open 
• SLS Tempe Takeover 
• Paige Heyn x Phoenix Mercury 
• The Bunt Jam 
• Unity Fest + Exposure 
• Secret Lynn — Thief of Joy 
• Kylie Frank and Werka Choromańska new Etnies promo video 
• Slam Skateboarding x Big Heart’s State of MindChina trip - Felicity Turner & Liv Lovelace
• Liv Lovelace + New Balance Southerly 
• Nora Vasconcellos — Gilda 
• The September street-clip challenge

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Beatrice joins us to talk about growing up in Florida, finding her place in skateboarding, the complicated weight of being the first, leaving FA, and starting something new Desire 2911. Plus, a little bit of New York vs. San Francisco skating. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Revisiting when Leo Baker joined GLWT. 
This episode covers a lot of ground.

Two-time Super Crown champion. Eight X-Games medals. First trans person to have a signature shoe on Nike. A body of work and video parts that we're still talking about. 

We get into being shaped by an industry that decided what was “marketable,” and the cost of surviving inside it. Walking away from the Olympic path to transition. Building brands like Glue and Tacky.

Process, obsession, and what it actually takes to own a trick.

Choosing yourself is the whole story.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ashley and Alex catch up with Amelia Brodka to talk life on the road with the X Games League, broadcasting skateboarding, the league’s inaugural season, the changing business of competitive skateboarding, her own X Games origin story, the return of vert, and what’s ahead for Exposure.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Ashley, Nora, and Alex catch up after a busy stretch of travel to cover the X Games League finale, Sky Brown's historic week, bad internet opinions, and one tiny wet hippo.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We've had a lot of new listeners finding the show lately, thank you! It felt like the right time to revisit one of our favorite conversations with Alexis Sablone.

One of the most respected to ever do it. Chiseled into our skateboarding Mt. Rushmore. We talk process to obsession, where it helps and where it gets in the way. Early childhood attempts at Frankensteining the perfect specimen (via bugs). The time Alexis brokered a deal with an injured skater to buy her way into the X Games. Showing up to a contest in Shanghai with only two left shoes. Everything from welding to coaching to all of her new projects. And why skateboarding is just cool... and always will be.

We also finally crack the code on Alexis' IG handle @suminaynay. If you've ever wondered where it came from, you're not alone.

So if you're new to the show, this feels like a pretty perfect place to start. And if you've heard it before, I think you'll hear it with fresh ears.

Hope you enjoy -

-GLWT 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.