Skateboarding By Rachel Martin Site

On weekends, she taught kids at the community center—helmets too big, boards too small. “Fall forward,” she’d tell them. “Backward hurts worse.” They didn’t know she was talking about more than skateboarding.

At seventeen, she landed a kickflip to fakie that made even Marcus, the ramp veteran, whistle. Someone filmed it. The video got 47 views. Rachel didn’t care. skateboarding by rachel martin

By thirteen, she was the only girl at the Westside Park ramp after 4 p.m. The boys called her “Rocket” because she shot up the quarter-pipe like she had somewhere better to be. She didn’t correct them. Let them think speed was the point. On weekends, she taught kids at the community