GRLSWIRL is Making Skateboarding More Inclusive for Women | NowThis
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- This woman leveraged her love for skateboarding to build a network of women skaters who empower others, give back to their community, and can cruise the streets of Venice Beach safely.
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[NOTE: This video was originally published in June 2019.]
What started as a way to feel safe while skateboarding around Venice Beach blossomed into an inclusive, nearly 200+ community meet-up for women of all ages to pursue skateboarding. This is GRLSWIRL (Girl Swirl), a sisterhood turned full-fledged organization that rallies women to help communities in need.
Founder Lucy Osinski wanted a fun way to get women on wheels to unleash their inner badass. Soon enough, she had successfully recruited dozens of women who were gliding the streets of Venice Beach. Scared that her organization would get caught up in the influencer craze, she steered the group to focus on philanthropy and ways to better their local community through charity work and mentorship.
GRLSWIRL has proudly given wheels to women helping women. So far, thousands of dollars has been raised for local charities, mission trips to communities in need organized, and kids and women of all ages have taken up the sport of skateboarding.
Learn more about Venice Beach's GRLSWIRL in this interview with founder Lucy Osinski.
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This is great!!! Love seeing women/ girls get outdoors and do things that are physically challenging! It builds coordination, strength, self worth, confidence, and teamwork. Women/ girls that participate in sports/ physical activities tend to do better in school, feel better about themselves, seek higher education, less chance of abusive relationships, more confident about themselves and realize what they are capable of accomplishing!
Everyone longs to be accepted in a group of friends. Must feel nice. 🙂
yes! i was a major skateboarder 1967-1989: taught my daughter to be a super skateboarder! Thank you for what you are doing!
This is SO COOL. I need to come and find you guys. I live in the UK, Devon and started skating now, with my pintail longboard for the first time at 25! I LOVE IT SO MUCH and the confidence and self belief it has opened within me is crazy. I feel like anything is possible on that board. It’s medication and flow and more than I every thought it could be 😍🙌💃❤️
My sister and I plan to practice inline skating at a skatepark and we do feel a bit uneasy going there. It's always filled of boys, some of them with cam... Not all of them have a mature mindset and they'd respond not in a good mannered way. I also don't appreciate the stares and being talked about or being filmed. Mind your own business, skate.
ignore them and show them that just becuase your girls doesnt mean you cant follow your dreams and passions. Keep doing what you love and dont let anyone talk you down! Im rooting for you and your sister!
I love her!! Go GURLS!! I just bought my first board after watching a Gurl Swirl video! Come to Miami Beach for a skate camp!
This is a great example of great activism.
This makes me want to move to Venice Beach just so that I can join this group! No, I don't know how to skateboard, but I have always wanted to learn. I just never felt comfortable even trying because it felt like a male dominate activity.
As a guy I love seeing girls skate, just love it!
29 years old and I still skate. Wish this was around when I was younger but so thankful for future generations. Girl power 🌸!!
I grew up in SM and Venice was my stomping grounds 1970' and 80's skating and boogey boarding. I can totally relate to the intimidating atmosphere being male dominated. There is strength in numbers ladies and you are watching out for each other. Safety is paramount down there. Your passion to pass it down to the next generation is what it is all about. Blessings to you all:)
For me it was the same. I’ve been doing ballet for almost 12 years and then I got into surfing and after skateboarding. it just gave me so much confidence and of course joy! Than you so much for empowering so many women!
it's funny how most of the hater comments appear to be from men - I rest my case lol
DO A KICKFLIP!!!
No.
Yes, we need this…my gf is always on the sidelines doesn’t want to try skating
It should be inclusion, instead exclusion. Bringing people to skate and not separate women/girls. In the long run Society is even more separated.
Yeah. Why can’t there be a mixed group.
Venice, the birthplace of modern skateboarding. Peggy Oki was a member of the Zephyr crew who shaped skateboarding into what it is today
I'm not even sure why this popped up as a recommended video for me to watch (I haven't been watching any skateboarding videos or anything close. Glad it did pop up, though. Watching this made me happy!
In my professional life most men hate because I will train a female to be better than me in profession but knowledge doesn't have a gender does it?
I already know there’s gonna be people just mad at this lol
Nicholas tovar , Only ignorant ones.
I already know people with justifien critcal opinions will be called haters. It's just how fubar the conversation on the whole subject is. I feel like we live in times where the most loud morons will get their way, despite what most of people or science/studies are saying.
For the record I personally don't have anything against women skating or in any sports for that matter. I just don't see it as a issue or at least we have way bigger issues at the moment, even without the virus. I can come with only two professions I would prefer to be served by a man. The first is urologist, I just beleave men have naturally more experience in that field. I do beleave that most women feel same about gynecologists. The second one is fire fighters. This comes just down to physiology. If women can pass the same tests, then I don't care, but I rather not die on fire, just because the fire rescue person was not able to do their job, beeing of what ever gender.
These kind of inequality issues should be solved with upbringing, edjucation and by giving every body equal chance. Not by lowering standards for some and forcing stupid genre quotas.
Maybe people are "mad" because it's a ridiculous strawman argument. Good skaters respect good skating. If you want to skate, just do it. There are no men out there ripping girls off of skateboards.
@@privateuser7 Good job not watching the video. It might not be true for you and your group, but the guys she was running into were overly aggressive and giving her unwanted attention when she just wanted to be left alone and skate. That is why she got this group going, so she would feel more comfortable skating in public areas where she has had a bad experience before. Literally the comment under this main one is from a girl skater who has shared he own experiences with guys being too pushy around her and making her feel uncomfortable when she just wants to go out and skate. So, just because its not _YOUR_ personal experience does not mean its not someone else's, and it does not make this a "straw man". Because nowhere in the video does she say "all men" or "all male skaters". She specifically says the ones she encountered where she likes to skate.
Get.Outside.Your.Bubble.
Andrew , well said.
Wait so what did she make? Gatherings? I mean seriously what did she make
United a community?
-C D E F G A B C- -C B A G F E D C- ,
Clearly nothing that you would appreciate but lots of theres do..
Fly Vegan No im actually serious this isn’t a joke I don’t understand
Initially it might have started with her just wanting a group to go skating... But now She could be teaching skating and making money out of it...
Growing up on a skateboard, i think ive only met a couple dozen girls that rode skateboards and ive been to many skatepark in different cities. i just wish this would have happened in those days.
This story is very moving, i wish more women get this chance to be encouraged to do what they love without any prejudice. Keep doing what you love, dont let anyone talk you out of following your passion and dreams!
Just take my money and do whatever you wanna do with it...
Like I kinda understand how this could be good but people don’t really care if woman do skateboarding or not especially down in Venice beach
"... anytime someone calls attention to the breaking of gender rules it ultimate undermines the concept of Gender Equality by implying that this is an exception and not the Status Quo"
Knuckles, 'Sonic Boom' series [Season 2 - Episode 38: Eggman 's Anti Gravity Ray]
I’d love to cruise with a lady that also loves to.
I just want to say is i love you all and keep safe!!
Hey! Ballet is badass too!
Yessss go GRLSWRL !!
Would love to see more women in the skateboarding community, but it's not too much into longboarding. We see it as transportation, wheels are good for filming, ect.
Get some popsicles for these girls and start doing some kickflips!
Why ? There are many different flavours of skating besides kickflips .
Any chapter in seattle?
Wow what utter BS. If you want to skate, skate. Why does it have to be some grand virtue-signalling movement. Just skate. Garbage content.
yaaaas go GRLSWRL!! (PS come to England! 🙏)
You go girls but professional female skaters like Lacey Baker, Nora Vasconcellos and Laticia Bufoni to name a few do make you look kinda like a bunch of kooks! Anything that gets more women skating is a good thing.
This is NOT skateboarding :(
This is just cruising.. I am a girl that can both longboard and skateboard.
Guys usually don't make fun of girls for skating, they are actually impressed if a girl can reach or surpass their level. That's due to their low expectations but whatever.
If they make fun of you it's because you're truly bad at it and that's the same for any gender
Lol shhhhh! They are being brave! Lmao
Ive been a skater for over 16 years. I’ve never seen anyone trash talk girls for skating. I think what people get annoyed with is people like these idiots that just come in and take over, not knowing the kind of customs and courtesies of a skatepark and when the inevitable clash happens they feign victimhood. “Oh you don’t like girls skating in your park!?” It’s the same with parents who just drop their 6 yr old kids off to use the ramps like slides.. it’s the same exact thing.
This is skateboarding wtf. Yeah its crushing but on what? A SKATEBOARD ;)
Awesome initiative!! Can you name the contries GRLSWIRL excist in? :)
Getting young people to wear helmets ? Let's work on that.
Are they still doing tis ?
Great! 😊👍👍👍
When is the “His stories” segment? The one that promotes men?
look at literally MOST newspapers or news stories in american history, theres your "his" segment, i love seeing women getting equal chances than us men. I dislike it when feminists demand BETTER rights, but i am all for EQUAL rights and feminist movements, just no feminatzies please
I think some people are wondering why they aren't in the hut down by water.
Excellant, Bravo!
Most of the Betties I grew up with could care less about any all female crews. They took turns on rails like everyone else.
She’s not threatening those girls, she’s doing her own thing.
@@Mx-veganworldby2050 I doubt my texts says she was threatening those girls
You go girls!
Where is HyojooKo?? The goddess on the longboard
Came here from Mac Miller
Me and my friends used to steal the boys' skateboards just so we could get around the lake.
We skateboarded to survive not because it was cool.
but it is cool to upsure a boy how to use his board better than him
How does skateboarding effect girls
If you've been to Venice, it's crazy creepy again these days, and you're getting approached by all kinds of people trying to harass you or sell you stuff. Guess it's harder for chicks too since they bug them even more
The same way it affects boys, wise up boy
Not none of them are wearing a face mask.
Noone cares also ;)
CalifaVeniCeDogtownTijuanagirlsRevoluCi😋n!
So is the next step to join girls and boys so we can all just skate together and be friends?
You're sweet awesome 🥰
So does mean they are going to create girl skateboarder fail videos?
Kinda pathetic i dont think no one really cares. iif you help people learn to skateboard thats cool but just teaching girls cuz of the sake patriarchy or something? I mean sure do what you like but this isnt ground breaking. Is just sad... lol
I guess... Does it come with mace, license to carry, a free pea shooter and self defense classes.
Why do you need them?
How about making teaching more inclusive for men?
What ?!!
BRAVA!!! :-)
:)) So Cute hehehehe
Skateboarding was always inclusive to women they just werent that good at it...
Gj
I want off this planet
Go then!
@@jcbanbury you first
They should be in the kitchen making daddy a sandwich
Cringey comment, so cringey😖😖
I don’t know what Venice beach is like…but growing up in bc, Van and Vic, we always had and welcomed new female skaters. I don’t know the male skaters you hang out with but in my experience, all skaters are welcome to other skaters. Good for you for trying to start a club ,but please don’t say that girls don’t skate and male skaters are evil pigs. Keep up your mission, but if you talk with other skaters you will find a community not defined by gender but for the love of the sport.