{"id":65101,"date":"2014-05-15T13:15:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T21:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/?p=65101"},"modified":"2020-11-18T15:34:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T20:34:37","slug":"why-do-women-suck-at-snowboarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/?p=65101","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Women Suck at Snowboarding?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t

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As a woman who snowboards, I find myself frequently using being “a girl” as an excuse. It’s convenient and rarely questioned, so I’ve accepted it. (But honestly, there is a difference between being a girl and being a pussy, and I am the latter.) Also,\u00a0I am by no means on the front lines of progression in women’s sport. Luckily for my gender, there are women who are.<\/p>\n

In a story on ESPN<\/a>, real journalist Alyssa Roenigk explores the glass ceiling the decades of nurture, marketing, availability and have placed on women in action sports. A gap she surmises has nothing to do with physical ability.<\/p>\n

And, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, the men of snowboard slopestyle landed runs that included triple corks while Jamie Anderson won the women’s contest with two 720s, a trick Tina Basich won the winter X Games with in 1998.<\/p>\n

But none of this is because women are incapable of doing the same tricks as men.<\/p>\n

Let’s remember that 15 years ago, it was believed to be impossible for anyone to backflip a dirt bike or do many of the tricks being landed today. To pull off a triple cork, however, there is more at play than generating enough speed to have the airtime necessary to flip three times, spin four and land on your board. (Which is physically possible for a woman to do, and not too far down the road, one undoubtedly will).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you’re into girl power, or any of that junk, this article <\/a>is a great read, and if you can’t get enough of reminds me of this teenage rant<\/a> I wrote in the 90s when I knew everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The glass ceiling explored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1135,2194],"tags":[2373,2374,2375,2376],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91567,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65101\/revisions\/91567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}