At 8 years old, Amelia Brodka would borrow her brother’s skateboard and ride it using her knees. And a few years later, seeing a professional female (女性的) skater in a video lit a fire in her. “Watching professional skateboarders … on a huge ramp (斜坡) suddenly made skateboarding feel accessible (可做到的) to me,” she said. “At that moment, I became completely obsessed (着迷) with skateboarding.”