When Grosso hands you a Thrasher and your picture is on the cover... and then Tony hands you a board and you name is on it, You are doing something right.
The coolest thing about skateboarding is that, except for contests, it's not about being better than anyone, it's about being better than you were yesterday.
Kinda funny they didn’t mention her huge slam on that mega ramp and her breaking her leg and having to get screws or metal plates or whatever in her hip. Pretty impactful.
@@goskateboarding1412 Not everyone flys off a mega ramp at full speed into a wall and falls 20ft to straight gravel. She got mangled & came back just as good... Pretty impactful
Skateboarding has changed my life honestly I was attempting suicide multiple times as soon as skating has been in my life I’ve been much much more happy I wish I had found it before I had been bullied for seven years and have now been diagnosed with autism depression anxiety and have medication for it so this has changed my life I’m only 14 but even when I fall bad I get up with a smile on my face
This is the worst analogy for skateboarding I have ever heard tbh. One can't put it in a box and catogorize it.. Skating is skating that's all it needs to be.
I love the mom quote “ Lizzie doesn’t look at herself as a female skateboarder; she looks at herself as a skateboarder’ A perfect quote for the 2021 woman living in a dude’s world.
Not only is Lizzie an amazing skateboarder, but she's also an amazing person. Such a smart, humble, talented soul. I really dig these NYT profiles. Please continue to post these.
Been following skateboarding daily for 30 years, practising for the first 15, now just enjoying it online. Lizzies way of defining skateboarding gave me the chills!
Love Lizzie. She will no doubt go down as an absolute icon and someone who changed the face of female skateboarding forever, regardless of her results at the Olympics
Lizzie you is too cool. When you did the loop. Wow that blew my head off. Gave me goosebumps. Keep it up girl. You are an inspiration for alot of people. Good luck in the Olympics you are gonna knock em flat...
@@jhsounds it’s a running joke, people fail to recognize him in public constantly. Example article about it: www.boredpanda.com/funny-people-dont-recognize-tony-hawk-tweets/?
Most of the individuals who frequent the Olympics are getting old and gray anyways. We need to make room for the incoming sports for spectators who are actually going to be *alive* to watch them. It’s truly refreshing to see skateboarding, surfing, and rock climbing accepted as sports in the Olympics.
There was a documentary in the olympics channel explaining why skateboarding, snowboarding, surf and rock climbing are the sports that are going to save the Olympics.
It’s true, she’s the one who inspired me to pick up a board and go try trans/vert 🙂 her skating is so good, I just wanted to get to know what it feels like
I love how most skateboarders think the Olympics are to mainstream, but they would be happy to go just so they can skateboard, like it's just another day...
I remember when I was a kid in the late 90's to early 2000's... I loved watching Tony, Bucky, Sheckler, and the others during XGames when it aired on TV... Wishing that I could also skate... But alas, those were the times when Basketball and Skateboarding (especially skateboarding) is considered as a BOY's sport... Kinda still is here... So I NEVER had the chance to learn it while I still can... Now I'm riddled with knee and back injuries due playing basketball when I was in college and the numerous fights I've got myself into... And being an overweight, health issues ridden adult here is like a life sentence in prison... I'm just glad that Margie Didal gets to represent our country 🇵🇭 in the coming Olympics... But watching you, Lizzie and the other women make Skateboarding a more female friendly sport is such a big thing to me... I've been a fan for years... Hope you gals all the best during the upcoming Olympics...
i feel that. i could probably still start, it's never too late and all that, but. it's scary, though. i wish i could have seen myself in some of these women back then and had the confidence to pursue it while i was young.
Tony Hawk is becoming the Morgan Freeman of Skateboarding. He was already a Legend when I used to skate in the late 80's and he's still a Legend now. Great to embrace dope skaters like Lizzie 👌🏼She's just dope and she pushes the envelope in Skateboarding and showed that women can be just as great as men. In other sports I am barely interested in the women's division but in Skateboarding I am definitely watching!
Remember when you all hated us and called the cops on us to chase us out of skate spots and labeled us as criminals and hooligans? I remember. I’ll never forget how y’all treated us.