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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