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8 Female Skaters That Changed History!

Rad women who changed skating for the greater good!

Photo: Pat Darrin

Remember the Z-Boys crew of the 1970s… They were all boys, right? Wrong. Peggy Oki was the only female on the original Zephyr skateboard team – and she still skates today, well into her fifties!

But it wasn’t smooth riding, even among her own sex. “Some of the girls didn’t like the fact that I skated like a guy, so they protested me to the judges and one of the judges said I skated better than some of the guys.”

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