These moms have found a community while picking up the sport, falls and all.
Photo Essay by Josh E. Katz, Written by Melissa Guerrero, The New York Times
Photo, Soyoung Camardi, from left, Nagisa Landfield, Leila Noelliste, the coach Liv Collins, Sue Yee Hubbard and Shannon South.
On a chilly, windy morning in March, Nagisa Landfield’s and Leila Noelliste’s skateboard wheels boomed in unison with the clanking of construction work and semi trucks echoing nearby at a skatepark under the Kosciuszko Bridge in Brooklyn.
When an attempt at a trick turned into a fall, they laughed it off alongside their instructor, Liv Collins, and a group of women they were skating with. It was common practice to cheer for one another when they fell just as strongly as when they stuck the landing.
Meet the Brooklyn Skate Moms: a group of women who are learning to skate or are getting back into it. After coming together at the end of a skating boom during a pandemic lockdown, they began practicing the sport and were unified in their desire to build a community.
For many of them, it also became an outlet to play outside of their tangled web of responsibilities as business owners, mothers, friends and partners.
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