Filmmaker Amelia Brodka provides ‘Exposure’ for women in skateboarding

‘Skateboarding is a vehicle that teaches self-confidence, perseverance and wellness,’ says Brodka. — TNS

At eight years old, Amelia Brodka would “borrow” her brother’s skateboard. She started out riding around on her knees.

A few years later, she began learning how to ride it like everyone else, and although she liked playing a Tony Hawk (skateboarding) video game and watching the X Games (an annual extreme sports event in the United States), it was seeing a women’s vert demonstration (riding on a ramp and transitioning from horizontal to vertical to perform tricks) at the Philadelphia X Games that sparked a skateboarding fire in her.