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Making Onewheel Herstory
Written By Amanda C. Thompson @1woman1wheel Inclusion in Board-Sports Skateboarding. Snowboarding. Onewheeling. It’s fair to say there’s some overlap, and moreover, that these earlier board-sports laid both technical and cultural groundwork for the “revolutionary new board-sport” that is onewheel. It is also fair to say that women in Onewheel have enjoyed faster acceptance and a larger female community than women in the early years of skateboarding, largely thanks to the influence of badass babes like Patti McGee, Peggy Oki, and Cara Beth Burnside. But just because we started farther up the mountain then these trailblazing mamas doesn’t mean we’re done climbing....