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If you're a die hard skater, you're already stoked on the fact that today is Go Skateboarding Day, the worldwide holiday that makes up for all the times grinds have been cockblocked by knobs, skaters have been harassed and fined by cops and pools have been filled for the summer. But before you revel in vindication by skating the dock by your nearest grocery store and potentially crushing your overzealous nuts on a rail, enjoy the least brutal images that the sport can offer: the 10 sexiest female skateboarders.
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Paula Costales
Sponsor: The Capitan, Diva Skateboards, Spy Dollies
Stance: Goofy
Don’t know how to do anything on a board but coast? Watch this video. You'll learn how to do a frontside flip and get a glimpse of the beautiful Argentinian rider while you're at it.
Keeani Lei
Sponsor:
Stance: Regular
Keeani Lei is known for riding wood, both for skateboarding videos and porno videos.
Holly Lyons
Sponsors: Power Shoes, Cool Girls Skateboards, Independent, Nixon
Stance: Regular
Holly Lyons is known for taking advantage of all the her native California has to offer. When she’s not competing in skate competitions across the state or snowboarding in Lake Tahoe, she’s working as a Hollywood stunt double.
Heather Christensen
Sponsor: None
Stance: Regular
Heather Christensen isn’t just a Playboy model who poses with skateboards as a prop and dates pro skaters (see: Anthony Furlong); she can actually hold her own on a halfpipe.
Lyn-z Adams Hawkins Pastrana
Sponsors: k-5 Boardshop, DC Shoes & Apparel, Nixon, Type S Wheels, Birdhouse
Stance: Regular
We can see why Mr. Double Backflip, Travis Pastrana, fell in love with her: her guts. She’s an X Games gold medalist who cross trains by dirt biking and snowboarding and who was the first woman to attempt the DC Mega Ramp.
Jen O’Brien
Sponsor: Cherry Skateboards, Nixon, Independent, JVC, ZX
Stance: Regular
Jen O’Brien is skateboarding royalty. Before splitting, she and vert ramp legend Bob Burnquist were the Brangelina of the sport. He was the guy who attempted to 50-50 into the Grand Canyon and she was the first female to ever skate at the X Games.
Ellen O’Neal
Sponsor: Gordon & Smith
Stance: Regular
Ellen O’Neal is the godmother of female pro skateboarding who proved that skaters aren’t just a group of delinquents living in Venice Beach and helped bring the sport into the mainstream by skating on the Wonder Woman TV show.
Mimi Knoop
Sponsors: hoopla skateboards, The Alliance, Nikita, Nixon, Bones, Ace Trucks
Stance: Regular
This X Games medalist would’ve been fun to grow up with. She developed her vert and bowl skills skating empty pools in Cuba as a kid.
Anna-Sophie Julien
Sponsors: Volcom, Spy, Globe, Skullcandy, Uranium, Empire Skate Shop, Skirtboarders
Stance: Goofy
The French pro skater looks more like a classic Parisian actress than she does a conventional extreme sports athlete, but she’s got the skate videos to prove her talent.
Eliana Sosco
Sponsor: Etnies, hoopla, Livity, Bones Destructo
Stance: Goofy
Eliana Sosco is essentially a Brazilian supermodel with incredible skateboarding skills. Unfortunately for you, she’s already married with a kid, so you can just pretend to be part of her life with her The Day Routine video.
