Good Luck With That: A Podcast About Skateboarding

Skateboarding is classified by the Olympics as an “acrobatics + combat” sport — which is both terrifying and… kind of accurate.

This week, Ashley Rehfeld is joined by Mimi Knoop and Alex White on the sports desk to unpack: Brazil World Skate prep, SLS results, whether skateboarding is a sport or just athletic anarchy, and why the future can hold both street culture and real infrastructure.

Plus, we issue a formal challenge: Skaters — stop gatekeeping your own clips. Hard post the footage already.

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We’re back from winter break. Lunar New Year timing, so technically we’re early. (Sure.)
This week, Ashley Rehfeld, Nora Vasconcellos, and Alex White catch up on what the group text could not contain: a terrifying stalker situation that sent Nora into the court system, the surreal task of reading your comment section to a judge, and the safety cost of when your job requires having a public life online.


We talk Loop Hardware, Vanessa Torres + Alexis Sablone getting their Hall of Fame flowers, and the new competition wave: X Games League, PSL, AI judging, and why skateboarding keeps trying to become UFC in a trench coat.
Also: Shredder News is not news. 

Content note: discussion of stalking/harassment and online homophobia.

Good Luck With That is an iHeart Women’s Sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports & Entertainment.

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This week on Good Luck With That, Ashley sits down with Natalie Porter — skateboarder, librarian, historian, and author of Girl Gangs, Zines & Power Slides: A History of Badass Women Skateboarders.

Natalie’s work spans more than two decades of research documenting women’s skateboarding history not as a footnote, but as a through-line. We talk about rage as fuel, the power of self-documentation, why every generation thinks they’re “the first,” and what it actually takes to preserve culture when the industry won’t do it for you.If you care about skateboarding, culture, history, or who gets remembered, this one matters.Girl Gangs, Zines & Power Slides is available now through indie bookstores and libraries. Explore Natalie’s living archive at womensskatehistory.ca.

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This week, it’s a host-only catch-up that accidentally turns into a State of the Union for women’s progression across everything: skateboarding, surfing, and the weird new reality where the podium is basically a youth movement.

Nora takes us inside Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch (secret-ish Red Bull project, plus a quick detour into Blue Crush lore and why “Pipeline’s for the f**king girls” still hits. Then Mimi reports back from Kitakyushu, Japan, where the World Skate street stop looked like the future: 12–16-year-olds landing ender-level tricks on command, an East Asia sweep, and a competitive field that’s leveling up faster than anyone can handle.

We also get into the messy middle of Soty. Why social media is getting banned for under-16s in Australia (and what that means for young pros) And yes, we end in Tasmania, looking for a Christmas tree branch and celebrating a rewilded Bennett’s wallaby named Annie, because this is Good Luck With That.

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Live from La Paloma Theater during Exposure weekend, we time-travel through the heroic history of women’s skate contests from the 1960s to 2025: babysitting offers instead of sponsors, Judi Oyama bombing hills at 70, CB era, winning a car and immediately crashing it, X Games walkouts, equal pay fights, All Girl Skate Jam, WOF, Exposure, the absolute stunning fashion of it all, and so much more. It’s an appreciation letter, a roast, and a reminder that no one came to save women’s skateboarding; we just did it ourselves.

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We talk Down Straight Up! Vol. 4, van-trip politics, period reality, elbow chic, superstitions, starting LOOP Hardware, and why “trust the skater” is the whole business plan. More women in the van, more clips, more money. Wild, right? 

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Welcome to Good Luck With That, a weekly podcast about women and gender-expansive skateboarding, hosted by Ashley Rehfeld, Nora Vasconcellos, Alex White, and Mimi Knoop.

In our very first episode, we talk about why this space matters. We get into Exposure, the rise of the tween prodigies, and the absolutely unhinged things we’ve all done in the name of “opportunities,” and what it means to still love skateboarding after all of that.

Plus: questionable promises, at least three statements we’ll probably regret later, and some early hints at what’s to come on GLWT.

(Yes, including a debutante ball.)

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A weekly show centered on women and gender-expansive skateboarding, highlighting past, present, and future stories that rarely get the mic.

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